Rossnacreena

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossnacreena, from 2,417 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 334,736 m² (33.47 ha, 82.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Rossnacreena 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.

• 9 Sept 2026N/a

  develop at this site at Rossnacreena, Camross, Co.Laois. This development will consist/consists of: 1. Permission for a bovine cubicle shed with a slatted concrete slurry storage tank, 2. Retention Permission for an uncovered cubicle and feeding area, 3. Permission to cover the area listed at two above, with all development to include appropriate site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660629

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  1. Permission for a bovine cubicle shed with a slatted concrete slurry storage tank. 2. Retention Permission for an uncovered cubicle and feeding area. 3. Permission to cover the area listed at two above, with all development to include appropriate site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660612

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  retain existing slatted, livestock and storage sheds along with an existing workshop. Permission is sought to construct a new slatted shed and to increase existing concrete yard along with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18190

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 Rossnacreena.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Rossnacreena.

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

Name

Rossnacreena · Ros na Críne

Area

844,427 m² (84.44 ha, 208.66 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Marymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Marymount electoral division: 148 people in 49 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghduff, Ballinrally, Derrinduff, Derrycarrow, Rossnadough

Placenames

Rossnacreena 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.