# Rockfarm, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballybrood, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Charraig.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 342,592 m² (34.26 ha, 84.66 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballybrood, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballybrood.md
- Barony: Clanwilliam
- Electoral division: Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31471
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121772
- Centre: latitude 52.564691, longitude -8.453518 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfarm, from 65 m² to 282,965 m² (28.3 ha, 69.92 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1589411: 282,965 m² (28.3 ha, 69.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589411.md
- Parcel 1669144: 5,604 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669144.md
- Parcel 1664666: 4,868 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664666.md
- Parcel 5511201: 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5511201.md
- Parcel 1612537: 4,467 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612537.md
- Parcel 1650552: 4,460 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650552.md
- Parcel 1607849: 3,671 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607849.md
- Parcel 1665841: 3,614 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665841.md
- Parcel 6061547: 3,293 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6061547.md
- Parcel 1597694: 2,694 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597694.md
- Parcel 1619702: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619702.md
- Parcel 1603798: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603798.md
- Parcel 1596702: 2,014 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596702.md
- Parcel 1604271: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604271.md
- Parcel 1631533: 1,997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631533.md
- Parcel 1603125: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603125.md
- Parcel 3389066: 1,975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3389066.md
- Parcel 1602447: 1,965 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602447.md
- Parcel 1598411: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598411.md
- Parcel 1670513: 1,815 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670513.md
- Parcel 1663330: 515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663330.md
- Parcel 1665272: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665272.md
- Parcel 1622396: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622396.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rockfarm 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)

9 applications, newest first.

- 5 Feb 2025, Limerick County Council 2560086: Conditional. Permission. a change of site boundaries and change of septic tank and percolation area location from that previously granted under planning references 19/406, 21/123 and 23/60611 including all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560086/0
- 17 May 2024, Limerick County Council 2460476: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460476/0
- 25 Aug 2023, Limerick County Council 2360611: Conditional. Permission. a change of house design from that previously granted under planning references 19/406 and 21/123. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360611/0
- 31 Jan 2022, Limerick County Council 2297: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a new single storey dwelling, single car garage and associated car port, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2297/0
- 27 Jan 2022, Limerick County Council 2277: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2277/0
- 29 Jun 2021, Limerick County Council 21914: Conditional. Permission. alterations and extension to dwelling, construction of a domestic garage including all associated site development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21914/0
- 8 Feb 2021, Limerick County Council 21123: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change of house design from that previously granted under planning reference 19/406. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21123/0
- 25 Apr 2019, Limerick County Council 19406: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance walls and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19406/0
- 12 Oct 2018, Limerick County Council 181000: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls, garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181000/0

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 Rockfarm.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI023-169001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-169001-. 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 18501: AP 4/3713.
- LI023-169002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-169002-. 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 18502: AP 4/3713..
- LI023-169003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-169003-. 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 214: AP 4/3713.
- LI023-169004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-169004-. 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 184: AP 4/3713.

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)

- Garda station/constabulary barracks, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21902320, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902320. Detached two-bay two-storey police station, c.1830, on a rectangular plan with single-bay four-stage tower (south) on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Rubble limestone walls on battered base originally lime rendered. Square-headed window openings with hood mouldings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with margined tooled cut-limestone surround framing tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed loops (upper stages) with margined tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals. Set back from line of road.

## 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 Rockfarm, about 1 in 10 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 Rockfarm.
- 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/rockfarm.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rockfarm.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rockfarm.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rockfarm 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)

- Ballybrood: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballybrood.md
- Ballyvorneen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvorneen.md
- Caherline: https://everytownland.com/limerick/caherline.md
- Killeagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killeagh.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.

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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.

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