Rossmakay

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossmakay, from 41 m² to 695,556 m² (69.56 ha, 171.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Rossmakay 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.

• 18 Jul 2024Refused

  Permission for 2 no. agricultural stores (2243sqm x 9.9m high x 2 no.), with each store containing 2 no. separate units, and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460414

• 4 Jul 2024Conditional

  INTEND TO APPLY FOR:- PERMISSION CONSEQUENT ON THE GRANT OF OUTLINE PERMISSION, PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 21775 FOR DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE:- ROSSMAKAY, KNOCKBRIDGE, DUNDALK, CO. LOUTH. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF:- PERMISSION CONSEQUENT FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Permission consequent · Louth County Council, 2460375

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for 1. a one and a half storey extension to the front of an existing dwelling to include alterations to the front, sides and rear of the existing dwelling house. 2. A new domestic waste water treatment system. 3. Improvements to the existing site entrance to facilitate a new vehicular access onto the private lane. 4. New site boundaries with all associated site development works **Significant further information received on 07.12.23 includes repositioning of the proposed vehicular entrance on the site. Alterations to the site boundaries to accommodate the proposed entrance and a new landscaping plan**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23398

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21775

• 18 Feb 2019Conditional

  Permission to construct 1no. pig house together with all ancillary structures, (to include meal storage bin(s)), and all site works associated with the proposed development. *Significant Further Information received on 02/07/2019*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19113

• 14 Mar 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for development will consist of: A dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 03/09/2018 which provides for alterations to the propsed plans and elevations of dwelling. Relocation of the proposed dwelling on the site. Alterations to site size and associated site development works*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18189

• 17 Jan 2018N/a

  Permission for development will consist of full permission for new agricultural shed to existing farm yard.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1827

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 Rossmakay.

Recorded monuments

• LH012-019 Slab-lined burial
  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 Long cist, aligned E-W, containing an extended inhumation, above which were scattered the bones of at least six adults.

• LH012-020 Church
  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 Foundations of a rectangular grass-covered structure (max. dims. 21m by 7m) aligned E-W. Possible doorways at NW and SW ends. Long cist (LH012-019----) found near church. (CLAJ 1941, 23)

• LH012-021 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  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 Rectangular featureless structure (max. dims. 22m by 5.8m) aligned E-W; only S and E walls remain. Part of seventeenth-century chimney survives in S wall. (JRSAI 1897, 110-11; CLAJ 1911, 356)

• LH012-053 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 Section of drystone-built chamber (L 4m, Wth 1.6m, H 1.7m) aligned NNW-SSE. Blocked by collapse at SSE.

Architectural heritage

• Rossmakea, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830. Rectangular-plan, open entrance porch to south elevation, lean-to extension to east of north elevation, two-storey canted bay to north of west elevation. Pitched slated roofs, clay crested ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters fixed to painted timber eaves board, circular cast-iron downpipes, painted timber bargeboards, truss design, needle finials to gables of west elevation. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, slightly projecting painted smooth rendered plinth, painted smooth rendered block-and-start quoins, painted smooth rendered sill course to first floor windows. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted smooth rendered decorative frieze and cornice to window openings on south and west elevations; continuous cornice to canted bay windows; painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, c. 1900; square-headed stair-light to north elevation, leaded stained-glass fixed window. Square-headed door opening to open porch, finely tooled Doric columns support frieze, cornice and fluted limestone parapet surmounted by ball finials; tiled entrance platform, painted stone pilasters flanking door; stained glass overlight and flanking sidelights, varnished timber double doors with six raised-and-fielded panels; square-headed door opening to west elevation, painted roll-moulded cornice and pediment supported by decorative console brackets, timber and glazed panelled door,. House set in own grounds, single-storey coursed rubble stone wash house and coal house to north, slate roof, cast-iron gutters, red brick block-and-start door and window surrounds, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, painted timber vertically-sheeted half-doors; similar design to outbuildings; outbuildings bounded by ashlar stone walls, accessed through painted wrought-iron gates; garden to south, field to west; painted smooth rendered channelled gate piers, gabled caps, decorative wrought-iron gate give access to 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 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2994 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rossmakay · Ros Mhic Eathach

Area

1,613,266 m² (161.33 ha, 398.65 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Haggardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Haggardstown electoral division: 9,301 people in 3,293 households; 77% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commons, Dunmahon, Milltown, Milltown Grange, Newtownfane, Walterstown

Placenames

Rossmakay 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.