Rossmore

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossmore, from 196 m² to 948,215 m² (94.82 ha, 234.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

• 30 Jul 2026N/a

  retain the works carried out to include the extraction and storage of stone from part of the existing quarry identified as the extracted area comprising of approximately 0.65 Ha. of the quarry site area of 2.39Ha. Permission is sought for the following : 1. Continuation of the extraction of stone over the same area (0.65ha) and the proposed new extended area comprising of 0.85 Ha. 2. Continuation of the processing and storage of the stone over a period of 10 years not exceeding 30,000 tons annually. 3. Installation of new drainage to sediment ponds with discharge to ground water. 4. Installation of a wheel wash and weighbridge on site. 5. Installation of welfare facility unit, a site office and staff car parking. 6. All ancillary site works at Rossmore, Co. Laois 7. An Appropriate Assessment Screening and an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report is included with the application It is proposed to restore the quarry to farmland or forestry on completion.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660527

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  include the extraction and storage of stone from part of the existing quarry identified as the extracted area comprising of approximately 0.65 Ha. of the quarry site area of 2.39Ha. Permission is sought for the following : 1. Continuation of the extraction of stone over the same area (0.65ha) and the proposed new extended area comprising of 0.85 Ha. 2. Continuation of the processing and storage of the stone over a period of 10 years not exceeding 30,000 tons annually. 3. Installation of new drainage to sediment ponds with discharge to ground water. 4. Installation of a wheel wash and weighbridge on site. 5. Installation of welfare facility unit, a site office and staff car parking. 6. All ancillary site works at Rossmore, Co. Laois 7. An Appropriate Assessment Screening and an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report is included with the application It is proposed to restore the quarry to farmland or forestry on completion.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660331

• 7 May 2026Refused

  extend duration of PL 20/478 in regards the construct a storey and a half type dwelling, domestic garage

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 2629

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  Retain the relocation of the septic tank and percolation area (previously granted planning, ref:83-370) and northern and western 1.8m high masonry boundary walls with concrete capping. Permission for new Proprietary treatment system with tertiary coco filter and infiltration bed and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660116

• 3 Dec 2025N/a

  works carried out to include the extraction and storage of stone from part of the existing quarry identified as the extracted area comprising of approximately 0.65 Ha. of the quarry site area of 2.39Ha. Permission is sought for the following : 1. Continuation of the extraction of stone over the same area (0.65ha) and the proposed new extended area comprising of 0.85 Ha. 2. Continuation of the processing and storage of the stone over a period of 10 years not exceeding 30,000 tons annually. 3. Installation of new drainage to sediment ponds with discharge to ground water. 4. Installation of a wheel wash and weighbridge on site. 5. Installation of welfare facility unit, a site office and staff car parking. 6. All ancillary site works at Rossmore, Co. Laois 7. An Appropriate Assessment Screening and an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report is included with the application It is proposed to restore the quarry to farmland or forestry on completion.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560803

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, bored well, secondary treatment system & soil polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560577

• 9 Sept 2025N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, bored well, secondary treatment system & soil polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560573

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560124

• 9 Aug 2024N/a

  to construct a dormer style dwelling, attached single storey open double garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460231

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  construct a dormer style dwelling, attached single storey open double garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460464

• 26 Jul 2024N/a

  Construct a dormer style dwelling, attached single storey open double garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460446

• 29 Mar 2024Conditional

  Amend the consented (but not yet constructed) substation development permitted as part of Laois County Council Planning Reference 20/281 comprising a Revised 38kV Substation and Compound Area including a single storey control building (c5.3m height and c162sqm) and all associated electrical infrastructure and apparatus, New and Upgraded Site Entrance and Access Road and associated ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460170

• 21 Mar 2024N/a

  carry out amendments to the consented (but not yet constructed) substation development permitted as part of Laois County Council Planning Reference 20/281 comprising a Revised 38kV Substation and Compound Area including a single storey control building (c5.3m height and c162sqm) and all associated electrical infrastructure and apparatus, New and Upgraded Site Entrance and Access Road and associated ancillary site development works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460153

• 13 Mar 2024N/a

  Retain works carried out to include the extraction and storage of stone from part of an existing quarry and permission sought for the continuation over the same area and a proposed new extended area

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460131

• 5 Mar 2024N/a

  Retain works carried out to include the extraction and storage of stone from part of an existing quarry and permission sought for the continuation over the same area and a proposed new extended area

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460113

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  for existing single storey extension to side/front of existing dwelling comprising of lobby area and sunlounge and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360191

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system & soil polishing filter, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360069

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment area, bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22317

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  change of use from vacant/agricultural storage to a domestic dwelling which will include the installation a new traditional slates roof over the main body of house, the replacement of an existing dilapidated roof with a new steel corrugated roof, the installation of new structural openings for windows and doors, the installation of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21908

• 10 Dec 2021N/a

  instal a new traditional slates roof over the main body of house, the replacement of an existing dilapidated roof with a new steel corrugated roof, the installation of new structural openings for windows and doors, the installation of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21856

• 6 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle house to include underground slatted slurry storage and feeding apron (2) Roof over existing yard to develop cubicle shed and drafting area. (3) Roof over existing slatted tank. (4)Slatted slurry channel. (5) 2. no silage pits (6) Demolition of disused outbuilding. (7) Alterations to existing entrance along with concrete yards and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20512

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  permission for the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling, the construction of a replacement storey and a half type dwelling, a domestic garage, a bored well, a packaged wastewater treatment system and a raised polishing filter, alterations to the existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20478

• 17 Aug 2020Conditional

  retain alterations to existing dwelling to include the conversion of an attic to use as habitable space, 1 no. roof window to front elevation, 2 no. roof windows to rear elevation, the construction of a basement, the construction of a domestic garage, and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20423

• 11 Jun 2020Conditional

  installation of approximately 4.6 kilometers ('km') of underground cables within Carlow County Council ('CCC') boundary and approximately 2.0km within Laois County Council ('LCC') boundary with a voltage of up to 38 kilovolts and associated works, including a new substation with LCC, for the connection of the consented Bilboa Wind Farm (Planning Register References : Carlow County Council 11/154; An Bord Pleanala PL 01.240245) to the national electricity grid; upgrading of an existing forestry track within CCC; construction of two new onsite access track within CCC; re-orientation and increasing in size of a crane hardstanding area within CCC; and road strengthening and widening along an updated turbine delivery route, within LCC, pursuant to the consented Bilboa Wind Farm (Planning Register References: Carlow County Council 11/154; An Bord Pleanala PL 01.240245). The application is accompanied by a Planning Report, Environmental Impact Assessment Report and a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20281

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  construct a two-storey extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works and to retain unauthorised works to include the construction of a detached domestic building used as a garage/store and a study and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19250

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

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

• LA037-005 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a low lying area beside river. Indicated on the 1841 edition. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and as an irregular enclosure (max. dim. c. 45m NW-SE) on the 1908 edition 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 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

At the centre of the townland of Rossmore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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. Laois.

Name

Rossmore · An Ros Mór

Area

7,002,972 m² (700.3 ha, 1,730.47 acres)

Civil parish

Killeshin, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Rossmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 148 households in the Rossmore electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardateggle, Ballyhide, Clogrenan, Clogrenan (Co. Carlow), Coorlaghan, Springhill

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.