Rokeby

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rokeby. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Rokeby 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 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission for construction of single storey domestic fuel store structure at a Protected Structure

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21802

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 Rokeby.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-043 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of a 'cave' in a tree-ring. Now destroyed. (IFC Schools MSS 674, 157).

Architectural heritage

• Rokeby Hall, country house, 1780–1790 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement stone country house, built c. 1785. Rectangular-plan, single-storey with attic west wing attached to glass house, south-west; pedimented entrance breakfront to north elevation. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, ashlar limestone corbelled chimneystacks, roof hidden slightly by ashlar stone parapet; gutter hidden by parapet, circular cast-iron downpipes; mansard slate roof to west wing, partially hidden by parapet dormer windows to roof. Channelled tooled limestone walling to basement, slight projecting ashlar plinth, ashlar tooled limestone walling, ashlar sill courses to ground and first floor windows, thicker stringcourse separating ground and first floor, Ionic entablature, stone corbels to cornice at parapet; pedimented breakfront, four Ionic pilasters flank openings to first floor, supporting pediment, coat of arms to tympanum; coursed stone walling to west wing, tooled limestone block-and-start quoins, carved limestone cornice to parapet. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills to basement, continuous sills to upper storeys, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to basement east elevation and west wing, some aluminium windows main house all elevations. Round-headed door opening to north elevation, varnished timber double doors with six raised-and-fielded panels, cast-iron door furniture, spider-web fanlight, flight of splayed tooled limestone bridging steps, diamond-shaped limestone flags to entrance platform, sets and platform flanked by wrought-iron railings, tooled limestone carriage stops and wrought-iron bootscrapers to foot of steps; square-headed door opening to south (rear) elevation, painted timber and glazed door, plain-glazed overlight, concrete steps lead to entrance, c. 1950; square-headed door opening to south of west wing, painted timber panelled and glazed double doors, decorative overlight, stone steps to entrance. Ornate cast-iron Victorian glass house, round-headed arcaded windows, Corinthian pilasters surmounted by acanthus motifs. House set in extensive gardens, accessed through entrance gate to east (13901801), stone outbuildings and stableyard to north-west (13901803).

• Rokeby Hall, stables, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stableyard, built c. 1790. Consisting of three interlinked courtyards, walled garden attached to south-west; principal courtyard to east, seven-bay two-storey east elevation, central pedimented breakfront containing round-headed double-height carriage arch, crowned by lantern and copper cupola, converted to residential use; internal yard consisting of four two-storey ranges; west courtyards divided in two by central block with brick bell tower; single-storey rubble masonry buildings form south-west and north range while two-storey rear elevation of principal courtyard forms east range; external staircase on three brick-built supporting arches gives access to upper storey on this range; forge to south-east corner. Pitched and hipped slate and corrugated-iron roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods; ashlar limestone lantern to main range, square-profile base, octagonal bell tower, copper domical vaulted cupola. Random rubble stone walling, tooled ashlar limestone plinth to principle courtyard, tooled limestone quoins to east elevation; brick columns to south and west range of west courtyard. Square-headed window openings, ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills, uPVC casements,. Square- and segmental-headed door openings, ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors; double-height round-headed opening to east, ashlar limestone block-and-start surround, timber double doors and fanlight,; ashlar limestone horseshoe door opening to forge, round-headed carriage opening to north-west. Walled garden to south-west, red brick laid in Flemish bond to north, east and west walling and rubble masonry to south. Cobblestones to yard, stables set back from road in to north-west of Rokeby House.

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 Rokeby.

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 Rokeby with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Rokeby · Rokeby

Area

990,473 m² (99.05 ha, 244.75 acres)

Civil parish

Marlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Burren, Carrickbaggot, Gallstown, Keeverstown, Marlay, Swinestown

Placenames

Rokeby 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.