Rossalia
Rossalia is a townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 94.5 ha
- 234 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossalia, from 314 m² to 537,163 m² (53.72 ha, 132.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rossalia 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for a dwelling house served by mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560966
3 Feb 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to retain house and septic tank within revised site boundaries
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560051
11 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DETACHED GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22486
17 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND CARPORT, INSTALL A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211058
26 May 2021Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED INCLUDING MINOR FLOOR AND ELEVATIONAL TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED,INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL WITHIN ORIGINAL SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention · Kerry County Council, 21551
10 Jul 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND CAR PORT, INSTALL A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20613
6 Aug 2019Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING REAR OUTBUILDING (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW SIDE EXTENSION AND ENTRANCE CANOPY ONTO THE EXISTING DWELLING, (C) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19824
18 Dec 2017Conditional
RETAIN A DWELLING AND AN ADDITIONAL VEHICULAR ACCESS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171257
24 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, UV FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17831
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Doo Loughs 000350
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossalia.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rossalia.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rossalia, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_284 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rossalia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Rossalia
- Area
- 945,411 m² (94.54 ha, 233.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Flesk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 426 people lived in 157 households in the Flesk electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh, Dromdiralough, Shronaboy, Tullaha
- Placenames
- Rossalia 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.