Rossdarragh

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossdarragh, from 227 m² to 613,827 m² (61.38 ha, 151.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Rossdarragh 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 2026N/a

  construct one dwelling house, Separate Garage building , entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660544

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  construct one dwelling house, entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660529

• 6 Dec 2024Conditional

  Outline Permission to construct one dwelling house, entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460740

• 4 Dec 2024N/a

  Outline Permission to construct one dwelling house, entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2460729

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  construct (I) Milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, meal bin, Office, flow channel, storage rooms and plant rooms with underground effluent tanks (ii) New agricultural entrance with access roadway and hardcore area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360107

• 25 Feb 2023N/a

  to construct (I) Milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, meal bin, Office, flow channel, storage rooms and plant rooms with underground effluent tanks (ii) New agricultural entrance with access roadway and hardcore area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360059

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  (A)construct a new beef cattle shed to include straw lie back, slatted tank, feed passage and all associated site works; (B) retain indefinitely the existing beef cattle shed to include straw lie back, slatted tank, feed passage

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21227

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 Rossdarragh.

Recorded monuments

• LA034-015 Enclosure
  Description

  A subcircular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 38-9, S 97-8). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-016001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Reference to a building here, possibly a castle, (Carrigan 1905,vol. 2, 281). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'On the Ordnance Map the site of this church is marked "Site of R. C. Chapel" (LA034-017----). Two or three hundred yards to the west, there is a large enclosure (LA034-016002-) surrounded by a stone wall, which was probably the site of some old building, perhaps a castle' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281). 1654-7 Down Survey Map shows a ruined castle and some cabins (NLI, MS 720). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-016002 Enclosure
  Description

  Reference to a large enclosure surrounded by a stone wall which was probably the site of an old building, perhaps a castle (Carrigan, 1905, 281). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'On the Ordnance Map the site of this church is marked "Site of R. C. Chapel" (LA034-017). Two or three hundred yards to the west, there is a large enclosure surrounded by a stone wall, which was probably the site of some old building, perhaps a castle (LA034-016001-)' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281) Downe Survey Map shows a ruined castle and some cabins. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-017001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a rise. Reference to the foundations of a church (int. dims. c. 17.67m x 9.45m) known as Kyleaderry or Church of the Oak Grove (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'There was a very ancient church here. Its name was Kyleaderry, the Church of the Oak Grove. It stood within the Chapel Yard, an irregularly shaped area, half an acre in extent, surrounded by a rampart and fosse. The foundations of the church yet remain, and show it to have been an oblong building 58 ft. long and 31 ft. wide, the walls being about 3 ft. thick. The graveyard was was beside it to the south, has been obsolete for for so long a time that there are no appearances of headstones or graves. On the Ordnance Map the site of this church is marked "Site of R. C. Chapel". Two or three hundred yards to the west, there is a large enclosure surrounded by a stone wall, which was probably the site of some old building, perhaps a castle (LA034-016001-)' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281) Revisited by Caimin O'Brien on the 03 May 2007. Site consists of a poorly preserved church consisting of only the wall foundations of a rectangular undivided church (approx. int. dims. 6.3m N-S; 15m E-W; wall T approx. 1m; wall H 0.5-0.8m) situated within the NW quadrant of a large roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure (int. dims. 94m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.5m; base Wth 3m; int. h 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) and external fosse (Wth 1m; ext. D 0.2m). The W end of the church is intersected by the bank of the enclosure on the W side. No gravemarkers or any low stones visible inside this large enclosure. On the first edition of the OS six-inch map this building is indicated as 'Site of R.C. Chapel'. Possibly the site of an 18th century penal chapel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-017002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a rise. Reference to a graveyard here, now levelled (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'There was a very ancient church here. Its name was Kyleaderry, the Church of the Oak Grove. It stood within the Chapel Yard, an irregularly shaped area, half an acre in extent, surrounded by a rampart and fosse. The foundations of the church yet remain, and show it to have been an oblong building 58 ft. long and 31 ft. wide, the walls being about 3 ft. thick. The graveyard was was beside it to the south, has been obsolete for for so long a time that there are no appearances of headstones or graves. On the Ordnance Map the site of this church is marked "Site of R. C. Chapel". Two or three hundred yards to the west, there is a large enclosure surrounded by a stone wall, which was probably the site of some old building, perhaps a castle (LA034-016001-)' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281) Roughly rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 93m N-S; 51m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in N quadrant of graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-018 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a roughly trapezoidal enclosure (max. dims. c. 75m NE-SW, 40m NW-SE). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1885 (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 Rossdarragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rossdarragh · Ros Darach

Area

3,671,983 m² (367.2 ha, 907.37 acres)

Civil parish

Erke, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kyle South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kyle South electoral division: 296 people in 106 households; 93% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybuggy, Ballyedmond, Cappalinnan, Castletown (Co. Kilkenny), Clonburren (Moore), Glasha, Harristown, Kyle, Whiteswall (Co. Kilkenny)

Placenames

Rossdarragh 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.