Rossalee

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossalee, from 255 m² to 272,989 m² (27.3 ha, 67.46 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rossalee 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.

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  to modify dormer roof pitch from 33 degrees to 38 degrees to improve room heights for habitable room at the dormer level

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23168

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  develop: a dormer dwelling house with separate domestic garage; wastewater treatment unit and associated percolation area; alteration to the existing site entrance and associated site development works above and below ground level

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2262

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossalee.

Architectural heritage

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rossalee.

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 Rossalee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rossalee · Ros an Lar

Area

887,033 m² (88.7 ha, 219.19 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Lacka, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lacka electoral division: 309 people in 96 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drim, Drimmo, Killinure, Mountainfarm

Placenames

Rossalee 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.