Rossan

208 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossan, from 52 m² to 383,612 m² (38.36 ha, 94.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 239 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Kinnegad, Westmeath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Oct 2024Conditional

  the erection of a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes, and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure (overall height including antennas 18.25m). The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound at Telecommunications compound, c30m east of filling station forecourt, off the R148,

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460845

• 9 Mar 2023N/a

  the development will consist of permission for (i) automatic car wash, (ii) car wash plant room with water recycling system, (iii) removal of existing storage building, (iv) re-location of the existing air/water services unit, (v) removal of existing water & oil tank and (vi) all associated structures, drainage and site develoment works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23247

• 7 Jul 2022Conditional

  the development will consist of the renovation and extension of an existing two-storey detached farmhouse. The development will also include the demolition of an existing two-storey extension, decommissioning of existing septic tank, the installation of a new secondary treatment system and tertiary unit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 22898

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of placement of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for the acceptance of residual and food waste and a pay-to-use portable compactor for mixed dry recyclables. This activity requires the developers to possess a waste collection permit/certificate of registration

  Permission · Meath County Council, 212116

• 28 Sept 2021N/a

  permission placement of a portable, pay-to use waste compactor for the acceptance of residual waste and food waste and a portable, pay-to-use compactor for mixed recyclables. This activity requires the developers to possess a waste collection permit/certificate of registration

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211922

• 9 Sept 2021N/a

  the development will consist of placement of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for residual waste and food waste and a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for dry recyclables. This activity requires the developers to possess a waste collection permit/certificate of registration

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211760

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage/store, new dual entrance, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system & all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201387

• 18 Dec 2019N/a

  permission to construct a part storey & a half type/part single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA191724

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 Rossan.

Recorded monuments

• ME046-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope overlooking Rossan Bog. A D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 45-50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) truncated by a N-S roadway at W is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’. It is depicted as a triangular hachured feature on the 1912 edition, and it is described locally as a fort before its removal c. 1950. It was described in 1969 (SMR file) as a low D-shaped and grass-covered rise (dims 40m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by a slight scarp (Wth c. 5m; H 0.2m) and it was probably a rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 12 August 2019

• ME046-019 Bridge
  Description

  Three arches survive of a seven or nine arch seventeenth century road bridge over the Kinnegad River which forms the county boundary with Meath and connected Galway to Dublin (N6) via the village of Kinnegad. The village of Kinnegad is located 90m to the NW. The 17th century bridge has been replaced by the present concrete bridge that was constructed in 1936. A bridge over the Kinnegad River at this location is depicted on the 1654 Down Survey map of Farbill barony where it is annotated as ‘The Bridge of Kenegad’ and shown standing to the SE of Kinnegad Castle (WM027-071----) (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1661 this medieval bridge was replaced by a new bridge mentioned in the House of Commons Journal under the entry for the 22nd of March where it states that ‘the bridge of Kinnegad is much out of repaire and that great damage and loss hath happened to travellers and cattle in their passing over same and have ordered that two letters be written from the Speaker of the House, one to the Judges of Assize for the Co. of Meath and another to the Justices of Peace for the Co. of Westmeath to take care that according to Law a substantial bridge can be made over the said river Kinnegad’ (Simington and O’Keeffe 1991, 219). Described in 1991 as ‘three arches of the 1660s’ bridge and three upstream cutwaters have survived. The river has been diverted into a new and deeper cut immediately northwest of the surviving arches of the old bridge. The bridge erected across the new channel in 1840s was replaced by the present reinforced concrete bridge in 1936. The span of the surviving arches is 9ft (2.7m) with a rise of 3ft. 6in. (1.04m), a 105º degree arc segment. The piers are 10ft (3m) thick. The ring stone are wedge-shaped, 7in. on extrados and 4.5in. (0.11m) on the intrados averaging 18in. (0.28m) in depth on the head. They are well bonded into the barrel. The stones are not ashlar. The joints are not truly radial, especially in the haunches. The masonry in the cutwaters is coursed random rubble. The points of the upriver cutwaters are well cut stones and well bonded. The masonry in the cutwaters is coursed rubble, but the spandrels are of random rubble. The width of the roadway between parapets was 16ft. (4.87m)’ (ibid., 219-20). Cross-reference with WM028-003----. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 April 2017

• ME046-021 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a gently undulating landscape. An area of sub-surface archaeological features was identified by Ian Russell in centre-line testing (02E0108) for the M4 Dublin to Galway motorway and set aside for resolution as Rossan 1. On excavation (02E0866) many of the features proved to be nineteenth century in date but a small area of prehistoric activity was recorded. This consisted of two rectangular troughs (dims 1.98m x 1.24m; max. D 0.17m: 1.95m x 1.52m; max. D 0.25m) placed c. 5m apart. Both had primary fills of sandy clays with some charcoal inclusions, and there were 7 stake-holes in the floor of first and a stake-hole in each corner of the second. In the same area were 8 pits (diam. 0.3m; D 0.06m to 1.8m x 1.23m; D 0.24m), some with a charcoal content, and two pieces of worked flint and a worked piece of chert were recovered from them. These features were covered by charcoal-rich deposits, although the broken and burnt stones material of a fulacht fia was entirely absent, and the deposits were cut by later cultivation furrows. Charcoal samples from the troughs produced C14 dates of Cal BC 1290-1283 and Cal BC 1100-790. (Corcoran 2004, 3-8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 August 2019

• ME046-022 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a gently undulating landscape. An area of sub-surface archaeological features was identified by Ian Russell in centre-line testing (02E0108) for the M4 Dublin to Galway motorway and set aside as Rossan 3. It was completely excavated (02E1065) when three pits were recorded with charcoal or burnt clay in their fills. One rectangular pit (dims 1m x 0.6m; D 0.15m) produced a C 14 date of Cal AD 1030-1280, while a second (diam. 0.7m; D 0.2m) had sherds of prehistoric pottery decorated with incised lines and finger-nail impressions. A charcoal sample from the pit with the pottery produced a C14 date of Cal BC 1760-1440. The third oval pit (dims 0.4m x 0.27m; D 0.1m) was cut into the circular pit. Some linear features (L 0.2-0.6m) in the area were filled with metal slag and there were some post-medieval drains. (Murphy 2003, 3-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 August 2019

• ME046-023 Metalworking site
  Description

  Situated on a N-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. An area of sub-surface archaeological features was identified by Ian Russell in centre-line testing (02E0108) for the M4 Dublin to Galway motorway and set aside as Rossan 4. Excavation (02E1066) over a wide strip (dims 69m E-W; 7m N-S) revealed a subrectangular hearth (dims 1.4m x 1.12m; T 0.12m) with a post-hole nearby. A second subrectangular hearth (dims 2.08m x 1.3m; T 0.2m) is c. 10m to the W. A charcoal-filled pit (dims 0.55m x 0.28m; D 0.18m) was c. 20m further W with an extensive area (dims 8m x 6m) of oxidised clay between the two. No artefacts were recovered but charcoal samples from the charcoal pit produced C14 readings of Cal AD 1460-1680, Cal. AD 1770-1800 and Cal AD 1940-1950 suggesting it is modern. The smaller hearth, which also had slag, produced a C14 date of Cal AD 1030-1280. (Murphy 2003) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 13 August 2019

• ME046-024 Metalworking site
  Description

  Situated on a N-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. An area of sub-surface archaeological features was identified by Ian Russell in centre-line testing (02E0108) for the M4 Dublin to Galway motorway and set aside as Rossan 6. Excavation (02E1068) revealed 17 pits cut into subsoil, three of which with oxidized bases and containing charcoal and large slag inclusions were located at the S edge of the excavated area. They are interpreted as a bowl furnace (0.78m x 0.76m; D 0.4m) with a radiocarbon date of Cal. BC 370-50, and two bloom-smithing hearths (dims 3.5m x 3.2m; D 0.44m; 1.48m x 0.73m; D 0.21m) the larger of which may have originated as a charcoal production pit and has a C14 date of Cal BC 820-780 from the primary fill (Murphy 2004, 6-7). About 60m to the NNW is an area with about 10 pits (diam. 0.62m; D 0.44m to 2.9 x 1.98m; max. D 0.39m) filled with silty sands and clays containing some charcoal or oxidized clay, but no artefacts were recovered and only one unworked flint was found in one of the hearths (ibid. 3-7). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 August 2013

• ME046-082 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A cluster of archaeological deposits which, perhaps, represent a single or multiple structures. It consisted of a cluster of archaeological deposits exposed on the field surface and in the drain face for over 14m from north to south and up to 0.5m below the field surface. While it was not possible to distinguish individual structures within, the cluster was recorded at three individual locations providing an indication of the sort of deposits exposed at the time of the survey. These contained horizontal brushwood and roundwoods up to 0.15m in diameter occurring singly or in groups. Several stakes were also noted on the field surface. A mix of wood species is evident and all deposits are located within raised bog peats. Toolmarks were present on several worked ends throughout the cluster with stone tool marks identified on wood from at least one location. (Bermingham 2014) The deposits were not re-located during a pre-season field visit in April 2015 (licence: 15E0160). However, an earlier sample was used for dating, and the site was dated cal. 2618-2570 BC, UBA-26637 (Whitaker 2017). Compiled by: David O’Connor, Edited by: Femke Vleeshouwer, 8th April 2020 Date of upload: 21 November 2014

• ME046-085 Burial
  Description

  Human remains were discovered in Rossan Bog in 2014. In March an arm bone discovered in a pile of milled peat (ITM 659485,743718; NMI reg. no. 2014:74) and in September the lower leg and foot bones of an adult were found at this location (NMI reg. no. 2014:262). It is possible that both of these finds are connected, and represent the same individual, but is impossible to determine at this point in time (pers. comm. Maeve Sikora, National Museum of Ireland, 21 November 2014). The remains of another body dating to the Bronze Age had been discovered in this bog in 2012 (ME046-084----): it was radiocarbon dated to between 700 and 400 BC. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 21 November 2014

• ME046-090 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Kinnegad Bog. The site was first recorded in the 2013 Peatland Survey as a cluster of archaeological deposits exposed on the field surface and in the drain face over 14m, orientated N-S and up to 0.5m below the field surface. It was contained in raised bog peats. The cluster was recorded at three individual locations, and consisted of horizontal brushwood and roundwood occurring singly or in groups. Several stakes were also noted on the field surface. Toolmarks were present on several worked ends (Bermingham 2014). The site was dated to cal. 2618-2570 BC (UBA 26637). The site was not re-located during a pre-season field visit in April 2015. On the 25th of June 2015 (licence 15E0160), the find spot was found using GPS, but no wood remained in situ. Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer Date of upload: 27/02/2020

Architectural heritage

• Kinnegad Bridge, bridge, 1660–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of multi-arch road bridge over Kinnegad River, built c.1665 and altered c.1735 and c.1840. Constructed of coursed random rubble stone with roughly dressed voussoirs to the arch. Three arches of the seventeenth century bridge survive to the southeast side of the bridge, over former river channel, with modern concrete span to the northwest, built c.1936. Cut waters rising to pedestrian refuges over to the upstream side of early bridge (west). Located to the east end of Kinnegad, straddling the border with County Meath to the east.

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 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 Rossan.

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 Rossan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Rossan

Area

2,592,446 m² (259.24 ha, 640.61 acres)

Civil parish

Clonard, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Upper

Electoral division

Ardnamullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardnamullan electoral division: 877 people in 302 households; 85% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hardwood, Killaskillen, Kinnegad (Co. Westmeath), Knockersally or Colehill, Moydrum or Bogstown, Ticroghan

Placenames

Rossan 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.