Rossacroo

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossacroo, from 1,096 m² to 632,124 m² (63.21 ha, 156.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rossacroo 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.

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission for (i) Demolition of existing rear extension (ii) construction a two-storey extension (iii) minor elevational changes, all to the existing dwelling at Rossacroo, Headford, Co Kerry V93 X7T8.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360428

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE068-127001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough heather-covered hill pasture, on a NW-facing slope with views N over Sliabh Luachra. A circular area (6.7m N-S; 6.6m E-W) defined by the lower courses of a roughly constructed, partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 1m). The entrance (Wth 0.45m) is at E. Short collapsed walls (L c. 1m) lead outwards from each side of the entrance. Hut sites (KE068-127002-) and (KE068-127003-) lie c. 180m to the NE and another hut site (KE068-127004-) is c. 100m to the NNW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-127002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough heather-covered hill pasture, on a NW-facing slope with views N over Sliabh Luachra. The remains of an oval hut (3m NE-SW; 2.5m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.75m) which is obscured by moss and ferns. The level, rubble-covered interior is cut (D 0.7m) into the upslope at S to compensate for the hillslope. Another hut site (KE068-127003-) lies c. 14m to the N. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-127003 Hut site
  Description

  In rough heather-covered hill pasture, on the edge of a terrace on a NW-facing slope with views N over Sliabh Luachra. The remains of a roughly circular hut (4.5m N-S; 4m E-W) defined by a moss-covered collapsed drystone wall (T 1m; H 0.55m) which is best preserved along the S arc. A break (Wth 0.7m) at NE may mark the entrance location. The level interior is obscured by overgrowth. The remains of a small square annexe (1.4m N-S; 1.5m E-W; H 0.2m) abuts the exterior at NW. There is a hut site (KE068-127002-) c. 14m to the S and an enclosure (KE068-127001-) lies c. 200m to the SW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-127004 Hut site
  Description

  In rough heather-covered hill pasture, on a NW-facing slope with views N over Sliabh Luachra. The remains of a rectangular hut (5.2m E-W; 3.6m N-S) defined by a moss and grass-covered, collapsed, drystone wall (T 0.65m; H 0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 0.65m) at N. The N portion of the interior is raised (H 0.3m) to compensate for the hillslope. An enclosure (KE068-127001-) lies c. 100m to the S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rossacroo, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_306 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rossacroo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rossacroo · Ros an Chrú

Area

933,198 m² (93.32 ha, 230.6 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Headfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,047 people lived in 353 households in the Headfort electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh Beg, Carrigawannia, Doocarrig More, Drom, Headfort, Rossacroobeg

Placenames

Rossacroo 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.