# Rochestown, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rochestown, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Róistigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,209,976 m² (121 ha, 298.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rochestown, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/rochestown.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Ballybricken, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,932 people lived in 646 households in the Ballybricken electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31173 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121769 - Centre: latitude 52.568208, longitude -8.548518 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rochestown, from 1,286 m² to 257,452 m² (25.75 ha, 63.62 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1641250: 257,452 m² (25.75 ha, 63.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641250.md - Parcel 1596700: 231,235 m² (23.12 ha, 57.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596700.md - Parcel 1611776: 224,490 m² (22.45 ha, 55.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611776.md - Parcel 1588248: 216,736 m² (21.67 ha, 53.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588248.md - Parcel 1654681: 100,320 m² (10.03 ha, 24.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654681.md - Parcel 1622187: 71,469 m² (7.15 ha, 17.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622187.md - Parcel 1597692: 17,959 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597692.md - Parcel 2722784: 14,556 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2722784.md - Parcel 1632217: 11,403 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632217.md - Parcel 1636507: 10,807 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636507.md - Parcel 1593735: 9,524 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593735.md - Parcel 1643178: 6,289 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643178.md - Parcel 1602094: 4,840 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602094.md - Parcel 4848387: 4,153 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4848387.md - Parcel 1650549: 3,881 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650549.md - Parcel 1612334: 2,721 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612334.md - Parcel 1612533: 2,655 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612533.md - Parcel 1605194: 2,603 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605194.md - Parcel 1658187: 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658187.md - Parcel 1617457: 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617457.md - Parcel 1638045: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638045.md - Parcel 1592101: 2,060 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592101.md - Parcel 1611789: 2,054 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611789.md - Parcel 3266074: 1,881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266074.md - Parcel 4848384: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4848384.md - Parcel 1674627: 1,286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674627.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rochestown 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 7 Nov 2025, Limerick County Council 2561149: Conditional. Permission. altering the design of the development as previously authorized under Planning Ref: 25/60184, including demolition of the existing outbuilding, the construction of a new single storey side extension, modifications to the existing external elevations including alterations to windows, external facade, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561149/0 - 23 May 2025, Limerick County Council 2560483: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560483/0 - 7 Mar 2025, Limerick County Council 2560184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of extension to include conversion/change of use of existing shed and the installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560184/0 - 19 Dec 2024, Limerick County Council 2461286: N/a. Permission. for construction of extension to include the installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461286/0 - 1 Jun 2022, Limerick County Council 22616: Conditional. Permission. the installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22616/0 - 7 Jul 2021, Limerick County Council 21964: Conditional. Permission. construction of an agricultural shed with a slatted tank and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21964/0 - 4 Dec 2020, Limerick County Council 201293: Conditional. Permission. demolition of existing sunroom at side of house, new ground floor extension at side of house comprising of family room and utility/store room and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/201293/0 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 Rochestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-110: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-110----. A series of linear earthworks forms small rectangular shaped fields to E of Rockstown Castle (LI022-108----) visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP AVT004/005) taken 20/07/1968 possibly represents the remains of a field system associated with Rockstown Castle and church (LI022-109001-) standing to SW of earthworks. Appears to be the same monument as LI023-001----. See attached CUCAP aerial photos and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 31 July 2020 - LI023-001: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-001----. In improved pasture. Aerial photographs taken in 1960s (St Joseph Collection, AVT5 & AVT9) show a possible field system in a substantial sub-rectangular area (dims. c. 450m ENE-WSW; c. 650m NNW-SSE). There was no evident surface trace of this system when the area was inspected except for some slight undulations toward existing E field boundary that have no discernible pattern. Curvilinear coppice, depicted on current edition OS 6-inch map, now evident as an area of rock outcrop. Field boundary defining N-side of general area has been removed; wide earthen field boundary (Wth 5.6m; H 1.45m) aligned with mature trees and outer drain (Wth 6.25m; D 2.05m) forms E-side; third class road (Wth 5.2m) orientated ENE-WSW flanks S-side; townland boundary defines W-side. Tower house (LI022-108----) adjoins the area to W; church (LI022-109001-) and graveyard (LI022-109002-) c. 100m to W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 November 2011 - LI023-002001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-002001-. In NE quadrant of graveyard (LI023-002002-). Only standing remains of church is stump of wall (L 2.2m at base; max. H c. 3.3m; T 0.8m; long-axis c. N-S) constructed of rubble limestone with evidence of lime mortar. Two putlog holes pierce width of wall. Remains of parish church of Rochestown (Westropp 1904-5, 441-2) which was also a Dominican house though 'probably only a cell or vicariate of Limerick or Kilmallock' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 228-9). Westropp (1904-5, 441-2) recorded the following details about Riochestown; 'A monastery of Dominicans, often confused with Willestown and Ballymwillin (see 325, 336), or, as Archdall says, of Carmelites (Mon. Hib., p. 432); Rochestown, part of the commandery of Aney, 1578 (Fiant, 3250); Rochestown, formerly part of Ballynumrare parish, 1586 (Peyton); Rochestown Church, in Caherkynlis deanery, 1615; Roachestown, 1655 (D.S. (A 24, Petty, 65); Fabric - The church walls remained, 1826 (Fitzgerald, i., p. 291), but were levelled before 1840. Toberfuaird, or the cold well near it, was supposed to be curative, if not holy. It was closed-by John Croker, 1830 (O.S.L., 8, p. 362)'. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 03 January 2019 - LI023-002002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-002002-. In level pasture. Rochestown Church ruins (LI023-002001-) in centre of trapezoidal-shaped graveyard (L 22m at W; L 57m at N; L 34m at E; L 54m at S) enclosed by mortared stone wall. Entrance gate, at E-end of S-wall, of wrought iron flanked by limestone piers. Interior covered by coarse grass. Earliest headstone noted dated 1826. Still in occasional use for burial. Along inside of S wall is linear depression (Wth 5.75m; D on S side 0.85m; D on N side 1.05m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 30 October 2013. - LI023-147: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-147----. This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 233: AP 4/3706. - LI023-154: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-154----. This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 15901: AP 4/3696. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rochestown. ## 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 Rochestown, 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 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 Rochestown. - 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/limerick/rochestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rochestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rochestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rochestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynagarde: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynagarde.md - Carriganattin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carriganattin.md - Friarstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/friarstown-121007.md - Loughanstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/loughanstown.md - Rockstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rockstown.md - Williamstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/williamstown.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/limerick/rochestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/rochestown