Roxborough

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roxborough, from 1,561 m² to 926,569 m² (92.66 ha, 228.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Roxborough 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.

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21849

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED SLATED CUBICLE SHED FOR DAIRY COWS, AN EASY FEED CATTLE HOUSE FOR CATTLE COMPRISING A CREEP AREA FOR SMALLER CATTLE, TO APPLY FOR RETENTION FOR A SHED AND INSTALL A NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY IN THE SAME, COMPLETE WITH COLLECTING YARD, TO DEMOLISH OLD DWELLING HOUSE ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 18690

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 Roxborough.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-111 Country house
  Description

  An occupied two-storey house, L-shaped in plan. The front elevation (S-facing) is of three bays and has a central doorway with a rectangular overlight. The rectangular window opes have recent frames. The roof is hipped and has a central well and two off-centre chimneys to the front and a single central chimney to the rear. There is a two-storey hipped projection at the E end of the rear elevation. The front and the E side are rendered while the other elevations have exposed random rubble with cut limestone quoins. Part of house may date to the mid/late 18th-century. In the 1840s, it was recorded that it had been 'rebuilt' in 1813 (OSNB, Molahiffe, 37). (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-279 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture to the NW of Fieries. O'Hare (2000, 93-4) identified a possible enclosure (diam. c. 500m) defined by a curving field fence, which forms the south-west portion of the townland boundary of Roxborough. The possible enclosure is bisected by a NE-SW road. Its enclosing elements are generally similar to the other field boundaries in this area with trees, bushes and briars growing on many of them. Duplicate site with KE036-036002-. 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 Roxborough.

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_166 (ZIP).

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

Name

Roxborough

Area

1,011,826 m² (101.18 ha, 250.03 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

Ballinvarrig, Castlefarm, Connigar, Gortavullin, Knockaneacoolteen

Placenames

Roxborough 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.