# Rootate, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Louth, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Táite Rú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 643,634 m² (64.36 ha, 159.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,925 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/louth.md - Barony: Ardee - Electoral division: Killanny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 922 people lived in 291 households in the Killanny electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33866 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140586 - Centre: latitude 53.960902, longitude -6.607911 (WGS 84) ## 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); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1126013: 115,719 m² (11.57 ha, 28.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126013.md - Parcel 1091456: 94,846 m² (9.48 ha, 23.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091456.md - Parcel 1127786: 79,633 m² (7.96 ha, 19.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127786.md - Parcel 1136523: 59,221 m² (5.92 ha, 14.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136523.md - Parcel 1136498: 59,037 m² (5.9 ha, 14.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136498.md - Parcel 1131282: 43,327 m² (4.33 ha, 10.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131282.md - Parcel 1127788: 40,077 m² (4.01 ha, 9.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127788.md - Parcel 1103193: 31,473 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103193.md - Parcel 1127787: 23,742 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127787.md - Parcel 1136630: 21,531 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136630.md - Parcel 1133382: 20,263 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1133382.md - Parcel 3455267: 16,595 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3455267.md - Parcel 2948849: 9,188 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2948849.md - Parcel 2645492: 4,662 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2645492.md - Parcel 5362501: 3,959 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5362501.md - Parcel 1119244: 3,912 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119244.md - Parcel 1134225: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134225.md - Parcel 1094479: 2,234 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094479.md - Parcel 1134905: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134905.md - Parcel 1106022: 1,905 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1106022.md - Parcel 1128668: 1,151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1128668.md - Parcel 2479574: 1,062 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479574.md - Parcel 1127803: 1,026 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127803.md - Parcel 1091254: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091254.md - Parcel 1132211: 633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132211.md - Parcel 2948836: 136 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2948836.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 4 Aug 2017, Louth County Council 17593: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/17593/0 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 Rootate. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH010-001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH010-001----. 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. 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) - Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Snows, church/chapel, 1835–1840, Regional interest, registry number 13901107, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13901107. 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. ## 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 Rootate, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, 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/louth/rootate.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/rootate.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/rootate.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castletate: https://everytownland.com/louth/castletate.md - Corcreeghagh: https://everytownland.com/louth/corcreeghagh.md - Drumgowna: https://everytownland.com/louth/drumgowna.md - Edenaquin: https://everytownland.com/louth/edenaquin.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/louth/newtown-140482.md - Sandfield: https://everytownland.com/louth/sandfield.md - Stonetown Lower: https://everytownland.com/louth/stonetown-lower.md - Stonetown Upper: https://everytownland.com/louth/stonetown-upper.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/louth/rootate - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/rootate