Roscolvin
Townland in the civil parish of Castledermot, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 78 ha
- 193 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 88,055 m² (8.81 ha, 21.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roscolvin, from 77,764 m² (7.78 ha, 19.22 acres) to 265,775 m² (26.58 ha, 65.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Roscolvin 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
23 Jun 2023N/a
(A)Retention of existing machinery workshop as constructed on site. (B) Retention of existing agricultural straw bedded shed as constructed on site. (C) Change of use of existing agricultural straw bedded shed to a proposed milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms, handling facilities, calving pen and cow waiting yard. (D) Change of use of existing calving shed to an agricultural cubicle shed. (E) Permission for the construction of an extension to existing calving shed which will include cubicles and an underground slatted slurry tank. (F) Permission for the construction of an unroofed cow waiting yard and underground slatted soiled water tank. (G) Permission for the erection of a meal bin (H) Permission for the construction of 2 no. Silage pits and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23698
3 May 2018Conditional
(A)Retention of existing machinery workshop as constructed on site. (B) Retention of existing agricultural straw bedded shed as constructed on site. (C) Change of use of existing agricultural straw bedded shed to a proposed milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms, handling facilities, calving pen and cow waiting yard. (D) Change of use of existing calving shed to an agricultural cubicle shed. (E) Permission for the construction of an extension to existing calving shed which will include cubicles and an underground slatted slurry tank. (F) Permission for the construction of an unroofed cow waiting yard and underground slatted soiled water tank. (G) Permission for the erection of a meal bin (H) Permission for the construction of 2 no. Silage pits and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18518
12 Apr 2018N/a
(a) Retention of existing machinery workshop as constructed on site. (b) Retention of existing agricultural straw bedded shed as constructed on site. (c) Change of use of existing agricultural straw bedded shed to a proposed milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms, handling facilities, calving pen and cow waiting yard. (d) Change of use of existing calving shed to an agricultural cubicle shed. (e) Permission for the construction of an extension to existing calving shed which will include cubicles and an underground slatted slurry tank. (f) Permission for the construction of an unroofed cow waiting yard and underground slatted soiled water tank. (g) Permission for the erection of a meal bin. (h) Permission for the construction of 2 No. silage pits and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 18409
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roscolvin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roscolvin.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2606 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roscolvin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Roscolvin
- Area
- 779,731 m² (77.97 ha, 192.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castledermot, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Graney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Graney electoral division: 803 people in 274 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Grangeford, Hobartstown East, Marshalstown, Narraghbeg, Saintjohns
- Placenames
- Roscolvin 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.