Rockbarton

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockbarton, from 269 m² to 292,767 m² (29.28 ha, 72.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Rockbarton 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.

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  an existing dwelling house as built and permission for retention is also sought for an agricultural entrance and driveway as constructed

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660072

• 22 Jun 2023Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360434

• 17 Aug 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system, site entrance, driveway and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211169

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  the construction of a pottery workshop facility to include modifications to existing garden shed and creation of designated car parking and associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21616

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter, a new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21274

• 18 Jun 2018Refused

  the demolition of existing house and the construction of a new dwelling house, packaged waste water treatment system, polishing filter, a slatted shed and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18610

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockbarton.

Recorded monuments

• LI031-080001 Habitation site
  Description

  In grassland on former bogland of Rockbarton Demesne. The westernmost of three habitation sites (LI031-080002/0003----) discovered in 1941 during turf cutting at Rockbarton bog (Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin 1942, 255). According to Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin the site was similar to nearby habitation site (LI031-080002-), however no burnt stone and ‘much of the central area had been cut away; its original extent was estimated at 20 sq m. Pieces of pottery and scraps of flint were found” (ibid. 256, 258). The monument is not visible on aerial photography. See attached plan of the site marked Site III by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 March 2021

• LI031-080002 Habitation site
  Description

  In grassland on former bogland of Rockbarton Demesne. The central one of three habitation sites (LI031-080001/0002-) discovered in 1941 during turf cutting at Rockbarton bog (Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin 1942, 23-24). Described by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin as ‘an area of 12 sq. m. and was centred on a pillow-shaped mass of burnt stones about 100cm. in diameter and 25 cm. thick’ with finds of pottery, a flint scraper and unidentified burnt bone fragment (ibid.). The monument is not visible on aerial photography. See attached plan of the site marked Site II by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 March 2021

• LI031-080003 Habitation site
  Description

  In grassland on former bogland of Rockbarton Demesne. The most northern of three habitation sites (LI031-080001/0002-) discovered in 1941 during turf cutting at Rockbarton bog (Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin 1942, 255). Described by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin as ‘a destroyed site’ with 20 fragments of pottery (ibid.). The monument is not visible on aerial photography. See attached location map of the 3 habitation sites – marked Site I by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: March 2021

• LI031-205 Enclosure
  Description

  On the Deer Park of Rockbarton House, 90m SW of the townland boundary with Raheen and 2.3km WSW of Lough Gur. A cashel (LI031-041010-) at Cahirguillamore lies 350m to NW and Rockbarton House (NIAH Reg. No. 21903123) lies 370m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The enclosure is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 nor is it visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 73: 4/3600) as an enclosure. The enclosure is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018, the location is covered by mature woodland. The exact location of the site is uncertain. An ornamental pond and island now occupies the area labelled Bruff 73 on the SMR map See attached image showing the site labelled Bruff 73 on SMR map Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 20 October 2020

Architectural heritage

• Rockbarton House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey former country house, c. 1790, with additions dating to 1833. Now in a ruinous state. Formerly with a central bay breakfront with single-storey Roman Ionic portico and a curved bow at side of house. Square-profile dressed limestone entrance piers with decorative carved caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gate.

• Rockbarton House, gate lodge, outbuilding, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1800, with extension and abutting outbuildings to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as house. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows having dressed voussoirs and limestone sills. Square-headed opening having dressed limestone voussoirs and timber panelled door. Farm complex to west comprising ranges of multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings. Hipped artificial slate roofs. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings having dressed limestone voussoirs, limestone sills and timber fittings. Square-profile dressed limestone piers to front of site with cut limestone capping stones, flanking cast-iron gates.

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 Rockbarton.

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 Rockbarton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rockbarton · An Charraig

Area

991,075 m² (99.11 ha, 244.9 acres)

Civil parish

Tullabracky, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 553 people in 195 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardanreagh, Ballynanty, Cahirguillamore, Grange, Raheen, Rockbarton, Tullabracky

Placenames

Rockbarton 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.