Rossmore

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossmore, from 1,026 m² to 319,781 m² (31.98 ha, 79.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  on the grant of outline planning permission Ref: 2460533 to construct a 2 storey dwelling, entrance onto laneway, wastewater system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560510

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT A 2 STOREY DWELLING, ENTRANCE ONTO LANEWAY, WASTEWATER SYSTEM, BOREHOLE, SOAKPITS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460533

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  to erect a cubicle house, calving area, slatted slurry storage tank, silage pit and apron and ancillary concrete works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22780

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  to erect a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, a holding yard, a slatted slurry storage tank and ancillary concrete works on our lands at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18285

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  to make a forestry entrance including associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17861

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossmore.

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 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. Kilkenny.

Name

Rossmore · An Ros Mór

Area

1,708,320 m² (170.83 ha, 422.14 acres)

Civil parish

Killaloe, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Scotsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Scotsborough electoral division: 174 people in 64 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyline, Cappagh (Co. Tipperary), Gorteennalee, Graigue (Hayden), Kilbraghan, Redhouse, Tinnakilly, Whitehouse

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.