Rockfield Middle

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfield Middle, from 84 m² to 170,625 m² (17.06 ha, 42.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rockfield Middle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24170

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  (A) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING KITCHEN AREA AND DINING ROOM TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE ON GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR AND MODIFY ALTER AND EXTEND TO INCORPORATING SAME TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231130

• 6 Apr 2022Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22369

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22178

• 16 Jun 2020Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING EXCAVATION WORKS, (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW CALF REARING HOUSE / STRAW STORE ADJACENT TO EXISTING FARM BUILDINGS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 20514

• 26 Jul 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19803

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181298

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  CARRY OUT EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18868

• 21 Feb 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCT A SHED ON FOOTPRINT OF EXISTING WATER STORAGE STRUCTURE ATTACHED TO THE DWELLING AND (D) DEMOLISH EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18151

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE057-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a break on a S-facing slope. This rath is not visible at ground level and a farm trackway crosses the approximate area of it. It is indicated on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m). According to local information, it was levelled in the 1970s. It was described in the 1940s as a 'large' fort (Minutes of the Co. Kerry Field Club, 1945, vol. 1, 610-11). A souterrain (KE057-023001-) and six ogham stones (KE057-023002-, KE057-023003-, KE057-023004-, KE057-023005-, KE057-023006-, KE057-023007-) are associated with this rath. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-023001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE057-023----). In the 1940s it was recorded that the roof of a large passage had collapsed giving access to a souterrain in the centre of this rath (Minutes of the Co. Kerry Field Club, 1945, vol. 1, 610-11). The passage led into a chamber (Wth 4ft [1.22m]; H 5ft [1.52m]) roofed with stone slabs and a 'fireplace...with a well constructed flue' and an air shaft overhead were also described (ibid.). At least one further chamber was discerned at the time but it was not investigated. The landowner recalls an entrance into a small chamber from where access to a similar chamber was gained. Six ogham stones (KE057-023002-, KE057-023003-, KE057-023004-, KE057-023005-, KE057-023006-, KE057-023007-) were used as roof lintels in the souterrain. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-023002 Ogham stone
  Description

  Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight' (ibid., 240). This stone, now at Adare Manor (LI021-034003-), was described by Brash (1879, 222) as an irregular pillar of pale red sandstone 'standing 4ft. 11in. [1.25m]) above ground, 9in. square [0.23m]) at bottom, and 8in [0.2m] by 4in [0.1m]) at top' and 'having two angles on the same face inscribed'. Macalister (1945, 240, no. 243) also described this stone and read its inscription as MAQI-RITTE MAQI COLABOT MAQI MOCO QERAI. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

• KE057-023003 Ogham stone
  Description

  Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240). This stone , now at Adare Manor (LI021-034004-), was described by Brash (1879, 222-3) as 'a tall, tapering monolith standing 6ft. 10in. [2.08m] high above ground, and 11in. [0.27m] by 101/2in. [0.26m]) at bottom' and inscribed on two angles of the same face. Macalister (1945, 240, no. 244) read the inscription as 'COILLABBOTAS MAQI CORBBI MAQI MOCOI QERAI' and suggested that this stone 'possibly commemorates the father of the owner of No. I'. Macalister also recorded that this stone served as a lintel over the front door of the house of a man named Patrick Quirk (ibid., 241). Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

• KE057-023004 Ogham stone
  Description

  Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). This, the fourth, was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. Described by Macalister (1945, 240-41, no. 245) as a fragment 'about 1ft [0.3m] in length' that was lost but was said to have been inscribed with the unintelligible sequence of letters V?GOLAM'. Macalister also recorded that this stone was built into the gable of the a house of a man named Patrick Quirk (ibid., 241). Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

• KE057-023005 Ogham stone
  Description

  Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240). This stone, now at Adare Manor (LI021-034005-), was described by Macalister (ibid., 241, no. 246) as measuring '3ft 6in [1.07m] x 11in [0.27m] x 1ft 2in [0.37m])' and inscribed on two angles. He read the inscription as 'CORBAGNI MAQI BIVITI'. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

• KE057-023006 Ogham stone
  Description

  Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240). Regarding the fifth stone, Macalister (1945, 241) noted that the Rev. E. Barry in 1895 gave an improbable reading of this stone as 'Corbágn (sic) maqi mucoi C…'. This stone was not seen by either Brash or Macalister and its present location is not known. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

• KE057-023007 Ogham stone
  Description

  Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240). Macalister (1945, 241) noted that the Rev. E. Barry stated that six ogham stones were found in the souterrain and while he gave details of five of them he mentioned nothing about the sixth. Its present location is not known. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rockfield Middle.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rockfield Middle.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Rockfield Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rockfield Middle

Area

1,273,523 m² (127.35 ha, 314.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rockfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockfield electoral division: 427 people in 139 households; 86% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Keelties, Kilnarovanagh, Knocknaman, Laharan, Lissavane East, Rockfield East, Rockfield West, Seersha

Placenames

Rockfield Middle on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.