# Rockfield, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballycahane, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Páirc na Carraige. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 524,250 m² (52.43 ha, 129.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,264 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballycahane, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballycahane.md - Barony: Smallcounty - Electoral division: Kilpeacon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 561 people lived in 192 households in the Kilpeacon electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/30718 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121773 - Centre: latitude 52.565033, longitude -8.63371 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfield, from 114 m² to 59,506 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1604264: 59,506 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604264.md - Parcel 1668464: 43,660 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668464.md - Parcel 3311058: 43,280 m² (4.33 ha, 10.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3311058.md - Parcel 1663007: 24,261 m² (2.43 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663007.md - Parcel 1661817: 12,874 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661817.md - Parcel 3311046: 7,395 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3311046.md - Parcel 1603120: 2,966 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603120.md - Parcel 1658186: 2,694 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658186.md - Parcel 1589855: 2,550 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589855.md - Parcel 1653750: 2,264 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653750.md - Parcel 1626879: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626879.md - Parcel 1592245: 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592245.md - Parcel 1596839: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596839.md - Parcel 1667078: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667078.md - Parcel 1590506: 1,948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590506.md - Parcel 1645218: 1,274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645218.md - Parcel 1624975: 1,209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624975.md - Parcel 1588497: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588497.md - Parcel 1647613: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647613.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 31 Jan 2019, Limerick County Council 1976: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/1976/0 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 Rockfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-153: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-153----. 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 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 Rockfield. ## 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 Rockfield, 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 low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/rockfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rockfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rockfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rockfield 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) - Badgerfort: https://everytownland.com/limerick/badgerfort.md - Ballyregan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyregan-120397.md - Garryellen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garryellen.md - Kilderry: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilderry-121276.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-121643.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/rockfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/rockfield