Rockfield

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfield, from 114 m² to 59,506 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Rockfield 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.

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  modifications and extensions to the existing dwelling house including a replacement septic tank and percolation area. Modifications and extensions to include the following; extend the front bedrooms out under the existing front roof overhang, modify the front bay window, and construct a rear extension, all associated elevational changes and all site works above and below ground

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1976

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 Rockfield.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-153 Standing stone
  Description

  Standing stone described in 1943 as following; 'This is a large low boulder of conglomerate or breccia. It is 4' [1.2m] high and the base measures 6' [1.8m] long by 2' 6" [0.76m] thick' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 177). The monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Rockfield.

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

Name

Rockfield · Páirc na Carraige

Area

524,250 m² (52.43 ha, 129.54 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycahane, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Kilpeacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilpeacon electoral division: 561 people in 192 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Badgerfort, Ballyregan, Garryellen, Kilderry, Newtown

Placenames

Rockfield 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.