Rootate
Townland in the civil parish of Louth, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Táite Rú
- Area
- 64.4 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 6,925 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rootate, from 136 m² to 115,719 m² (11.57 ha, 28.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rootate 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Aug 2017Conditional
Permission for development for a detached single storey dwelling house with 1.5 storey segment to south section, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area & associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17593
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rootate.
Recorded monuments
- LH010-001 Ringfort - rath
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 Oval platform (int. dims. 29m E-W, 20m N-S, H 0.5-2m), the top of which is enclosed by a much-degraded earthen bank now reduced to a scarp. Traces of internal fosse (Wth 3.3m, D 0.3m) at W. Ancient entrance at NE represented by a depression in the scarp (Wth 1.8m). Modern depression in scarp at NNW.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Snows, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached T-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1837 and built by Rev. P Banan. Two-bay sacristy to west, entrance porch to east, bellcote over entrance gable. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles and verge coping to gables, and brick stepped corbelled chimneystack to sacristy, moulded uPVC gutters on corbelled eaves course, moulded uPVC downpipes; painted tooled stone bellcote to east gable, surmounted by carved cross. Painted smooth rendered plinth, painted roughcast rendered walling to church and sacristy, painted smooth and roughcast render to entrance porch with rendered parapet, painted smooth rendered quoins, two plaques to east entrance gable reading "BUILT BY THE REV P. BANAN A.D.1837" AND "RENOVATED BY VERY REV. J FINN P.P. REDEDICATED BY HIS EMINENCE THOMAS O FIACH 1ST JULY 1987". Pointed arch openings, painted stone sills, painted smooth rendered surrounds, Y-traceried windows with stained glass lights; pair of pointed arch openings to entrance porch, painted smooth rendered chamfered surrounds, fixed stained glass lights, square-headed openings to sacristy, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to east, chamfered reveals and soffit, replacement diagonally-sheeted timber double doors, limestone threshold, concrete wheelchair ramp and rail; square-headed door opening to sacristy, smooth rendered reveals and soffit, replacement vertically-sheeted timber door. Plain interior, renovated. Church situated in own grounds, set back from road. Site bounded by random rubble walling with soldier coping, square-profile gate piers surmounted by pyramidal coping stones. Wrought-iron double gates, flanked by wrought-iron pedestrian gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rootate.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rootate with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Rootate · Táite Rú
- Area
- 643,634 m² (64.36 ha, 159.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Louth, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Killanny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killanny electoral division: 922 people in 291 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castletate, Corcreeghagh, Drumgowna, Edenaquin, Newtown, Sandfield, Stonetown Lower, Stonetown Upper
- Placenames
- Rootate 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.