Rossmore

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossmore, from 2,547 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 148,642 m² (14.86 ha, 36.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Rossmore 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.

• 19 Jul 2024Conditional

  a dormer type dwelling house as constructed; septic tank and percolation area, well and boundary walls and permission for the completion of the works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460723

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 Rossmore.

Recorded monuments

• LI046-001 Moated site
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture. Roughly rectangular area (c. 26m N-S; c. 23m E-W) with rounded corners, defined by scarped edge (ext. H 0.45m) with faint trace of external fosse (Wth c. 2.5m) SW->NW. Scarp edge is truncated NE->SE by a field boundary which has now been removed. Entire site is covered by dense overgrowth; interior appears to be level and no entrance feature could be discerned. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Rossmore.

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

Name

Rossmore · An Ros Mór

Area

1,118,888 m² (111.89 ha, 276.48 acres)

Civil parish

Corcomohide, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 396 people in 138 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Croghteen, Gorteen, Gortroe

Placenames

Rossmore 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.