Rosslough

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosslough, from 66 m² to 128,020 m² (12.8 ha, 31.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rosslough 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.

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for (i) Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) All associated works and services. This application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from Louth County Council which will be applied for separately

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21851

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for (i) Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) All associated works and services. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from Louth County Council which will be applied for separately

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21852

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20824

• 10 Jun 2019Refused

  Permission for the dumping and spreading of soil and stone waste for the benefit of agricultural activity and all associated site development works. **Significant Further Information received 16/04/2020**

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19445

• 10 Jun 2019Refused

  Permission for the dumping and spreading of soil and stone waste for the benefit of agricultural activity and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 29/04/2020*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19446

• 16 Jan 2019Conditional

  Permission for a 1.5 storey type dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1921

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 Rosslough.

Recorded monuments

• LH010A001 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 Sub-circular area (int. dims. c. 29m N-S, c. 24m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks. Inner bank (Wth 3.5m, H 0.3m internally, 0.8m externally) much degraded except at N. Possible traces of internal stone facing to inner bank at SSW. Outer bank (Wth 3m, H 0.9m internally, 0.6m externally). Flat intervening space (Wth 6m) between the two banks may represent filled-in fosse.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rosslough.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rosslough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, 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 Rosslough.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rosslough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Rosslough · Ros Locha

Area

1,490,554 m² (149.06 ha, 368.32 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Killanny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolderry (Co. Monaghan), Cornagarvoge (Co. Monaghan), Drumgristin Upper (Co. Monaghan), Dunelty (Co. Monaghan), Loughtate, Newtown, Oaktate, Redbog, Stonetown Lower, Toomes

Placenames

Rosslough 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.