# Rossena, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killabban, barony of Slievemargy, Co. Laois; in Irish Ros Éanach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,203,175 m² (120.32 ha, 297.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 90,472 m² (9.05 ha, 22.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killabban, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/killabban.md - Barony: Slievemargy - Electoral division: Shrule, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 316 people lived in 104 households in the Shrule electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28877 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101000 - Centre: latitude 52.889974, longitude -6.991673 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossena, from 1,504 m² to 191,768 m² (19.18 ha, 47.39 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 230858: 191,768 m² (19.18 ha, 47.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230858.md - Parcel 6025857: 169,690 m² (16.97 ha, 41.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6025857.md - Parcel 229311: 163,001 m² (16.3 ha, 40.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229311.md - Parcel 268309: 134,574 m² (13.46 ha, 33.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268309.md - Parcel 3111755: 126,422 m² (12.64 ha, 31.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3111755.md - Parcel 267222: 124,169 m² (12.42 ha, 30.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267222.md - Parcel 4830007: 93,157 m² (9.32 ha, 23.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4830007.md - Parcel 261985: 90,472 m² (9.05 ha, 22.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261985.md - Parcel 265974: 37,397 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265974.md - Parcel 4829987: 31,373 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4829987.md - Parcel 226642: 24,830 m² (2.48 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226642.md - Parcel 250651: 8,849 m² (0.88 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250651.md - Parcel 4438262: 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438262.md - Parcel 253874: 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253874.md - Parcel 4438289: 1,504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438289.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rossena in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 18 Oct 2024, Laois County Council 2460633: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Renovate and extend existing two storey dwelling house which was previously granted permission to demolish with planning file number 19/183 and all associated and necessary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460633/0 - 24 Feb 2021, Laois County Council 21113: Conditional. Permission. construct a single storey extension to the North West elevation of our existing clubhouse and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21113/0 - 22 Feb 2021, Laois County Council 21103: N/a. Permission. construct a single storey extension to the North West elevation of our existing clubhouse and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21103/0 - 1 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19183: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolish existing two storey dwelling house and decommission existing septic tank and construct a replacement two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19183/0 - 1 Dec 2017, Laois County Council 17648: Unconditional. Extension of duration. extend time on planning permission 12/455. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17648/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rossena. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossena. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rossena. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rossena, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rossena. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossena.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossena.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossena.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rossena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinrahin: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballinrahin.md - Ballynagall: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballynagall.md - Clonagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonagh-100318.md - Coolanagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolanagh.md - Killenny: https://everytownland.com/laois/killenny-100725.md - Rathtillig: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathtillig.md - Tirernan: https://everytownland.com/laois/tirernan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossena - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/rossena