Rosseightragh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarvan, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Ros Íochtarach
- Area
- 218 ha
- 539 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,394 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosseightragh, from 332 m² to 575,220 m² (57.52 ha, 142.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rosseightragh 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
18 Aug 2024Conditional
The development consists of (a) retention planning permission to retain an extension on the Western side of the house and an extension on the Southern side of the house, (b) retention planning permission to retain changes made to the elevations of the house, (c) planning permission to demolish the house extensions on the Western and Southern sides of the house, (d) planning permission to construct extensions on the Eastern, Western and Northern sides of the house and to make changes to the elevations of the house, and (e) planning permission to remove the existing roadside parking arrangement and construct a new site entrance and on site parking and permission for all associated site works to facilitate the development being applied for.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460581
30 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW GARAGE AND GREENHOUSE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THEIR CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WILL BE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21887
15 Jan 2021Conditional
(A) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED, (B) RETAIN THE DOMESTIC SHED AS CONSTRUCTED, (C) RETAIN THE SITE ENTRANCE, WING WALLS AND ROADSIDE WALLS AS CONSTRUCTED AND (D) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE AND WELL WITHIN THE REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (e) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2115
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roughty River 001376
Recorded monuments
- KE085-044 Bridge
Description
A road bridge (long axis NW-SE) spanning the Roughty River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Two arches; the SE arch is semicircular with narrow roughly shaped voussoirs and spans deep rocky gorge. The NW arch, which is dry and built on a level platform, is segmental with roughly shaped voussoirs, some of which are rusticated; exposed NW side of pier under arch is of rusticated ashlar. Vertical stone coping on parapets. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rosseightragh.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Rosseightragh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rosseightragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Rosseightragh · An Ros Íochtarach
- Area
- 2,179,917 m² (217.99 ha, 538.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Glanlee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glanlee electoral division: 193 people in 72 households; 94% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caher, Gortmarrahafineen, Inchee, Inchincoosh, Kilfadda More, Lettercannon, Redtrench North
- Placenames
- Rosseightragh 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.