Rockfarm

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfarm, from 65 m² to 282,965 m² (28.3 ha, 69.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Rockfarm 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.

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  a change of site boundaries and change of septic tank and percolation area location from that previously granted under planning references 19/406, 21/123 and 23/60611 including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560086

• 17 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460476

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  a change of house design from that previously granted under planning references 19/406 and 21/123

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360611

• 31 Jan 2022Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling, single car garage and associated car port, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2297

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2277

• 29 Jun 2021Conditional

  alterations and extension to dwelling, construction of a domestic garage including all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21914

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

  change of house design from that previously granted under planning reference 19/406

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21123

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance walls and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19406

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181000

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 Rockfarm.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-169001 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 18501: AP 4/3713.

• LI023-169002 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 18502: AP 4/3713..

• LI023-169003 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 214: AP 4/3713.

• LI023-169004 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 184: AP 4/3713.

Architectural heritage

• Garda station/constabulary barracks, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey police station, c.1830, on a rectangular plan with single-bay four-stage tower (south) on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Rubble limestone walls on battered base originally lime rendered. Square-headed window openings with hood mouldings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with margined tooled cut-limestone surround framing tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed loops (upper stages) with margined tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals. Set back from line of road.

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 Rockfarm, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rockfarm · An Charraig

Area

342,592 m² (34.26 ha, 84.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrood, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrood, Ballyvorneen, Caherline, Killeagh

Placenames

Rockfarm 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.