Rootiagh

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rootiagh, from 318 m² to 270,435 m² (27.04 ha, 66.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Rootiagh 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.

• 21 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of a cubicle shed with slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561377

• 6 Nov 2025N/a

  construction of a cubicle shed with slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561142

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  the demolition of an existing dwelling & the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22259

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single storey extension to the rear of their existing dwelling, the construction of an extension to both the rear and side of the existing dwelling including new slate finish to existing roof and minor elevational alterations, relocated main entrance to the site with existing front boundary wall to be increased in height, demolition of derelict outhouses including all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191281

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  change of house type from that previously approved under planning application 12/648 and extended under extension of duration reference 17/7056 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18445

• 5 Mar 2018N/a

  the construction of a single storey house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 18190

• 17 Jan 2018Conditional

  a slatted shed and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1828

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  Extension of Permission from planning file ref. no. 12/648: the construction of a single storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177056

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 Rootiagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI032-102 Enclosure
  Description

  Earthwork described in 1943 as following; 'This consists of a circular earthen platform surrounded by a fosse. This latter is continuous and the entrance is not recognisable. The maximum height of the platform over its fosse-bottom is 5' [1.5m], and the overall diameter is 165' [50m]. The monument is situated in good low land.' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 172). Outline of monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020

• LI032-104 Enclosure
  Description

  Earthwork described in 1943 as following; 'The monument consists of a circular platform of earth surrounded by a continuous and waterlogged fosse. Outside this there was an outer bank most of which is now gone except for a short distance on the south-east side. The entrance is not recognisable. The maximum height of the platform over the fosse-bottom is 4' [1.2m], and the overall diameter is 135' [41m]. It is situated in fairly good lowland' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 172). Outline of monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020

• LI032-202 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In improved and drained pasture, 45m E of a land drain and 200m N of a townland boundary with Ballyloundash. Enclosure (LI032-203----) lies 285m to SSW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 157: AP 4/3635), as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 14.5m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 157 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rootiagh, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rootiagh.

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 Rootiagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rootiagh · Ruaiteach

Area

1,112,368 m² (111.24 ha, 274.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinard, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Cahercorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

761 people lived in 260 households in the Cahercorney electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloundash, Ballynagranagh, Cloghaviller, Galboola, Kildromin

Placenames

Rootiagh 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.