Rossmore

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossmore, from 16 m² to 90,643 m² (9.06 ha, 22.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Rossmore 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.

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  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181211

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rossmore.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-119 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on an elevated area with a view over the surrounding countryside in all directions. This upright stone (H 1.8m; 1.3m x 0.9m) is rectangular in plan and narrows slightly towards its top. It is orientated NNE-SSW. It displays one cup-mark on top and at least seven cup-marks (diam. 0.04-0.05m; D 0.02-0.03m) on its SSW face. (Dunne and Dennehy 1999, 45) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-119001 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NNW-facing slope, just below crown of hill. Upright stone (dims. 1.35m NE-SW; 0.9m NW-SE; H 1.75m) of limestone; long-axis NE-SW. The SE-elevation is rectangular in shape and has a smoother surface in contrast with the other elevations. The SW-elevation has four possible cup-marks and a similar feature on the top of the stone. Natural striations, weathering marks and lichens on all elevations. The Gap of Dunloe & MacGillycuddy’s Reeks are to SW and The Paps are to S. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rossmore.

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 Rossmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rossmore

Area

1,104,987 m² (110.5 ha, 273.05 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Molahiffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybane, Boolasallagh, Gortalassa, Gortdromerillagh, Gowlane, Rusheen, Skahies

Placenames

Rossmore 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.