# Rossnacreena, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Ros na Críne. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 844,427 m² (84.44 ha, 208.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 177,497 m² (17.75 ha, 43.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Marymount, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28540 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101010 - Centre: latitude 53.008866, longitude -7.622537 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 236465: 334,736 m² (33.47 ha, 82.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236465.md - Parcel 250528: 290,949 m² (29.09 ha, 71.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250528.md - Parcel 240617: 177,497 m² (17.75 ha, 43.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240617.md - Parcel 227576: 38,149 m² (3.81 ha, 9.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227576.md - Parcel 2478172: 2,417 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478172.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Sept 2026, Laois County Council 2660629: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660629/0 - 4 Sept 2026, Laois County Council 2660612: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660612/0 - 29 Mar 2018, Laois County Council 18190: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18190/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossnacreena. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rossnacreena. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/rossnacreena.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossnacreena.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossnacreena.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rossnacreena 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) - Aghduff: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghduff.md - Ballinrally: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballinrally.md - Derrinduff: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrinduff.md - Derrycarrow: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrycarrow.md - Rossnadough: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossnadough.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/rossnacreena - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/rossnacreena