Rockborough

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockborough, from 1,771 m² to 448,095 m² (44.81 ha, 110.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Jul 2021Unconditional

  Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work. - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/5547.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/6051

• 9 Jul 2021Incompleted application

  Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work. - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 15/5547.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/5912

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission to retain (1) extension as constructed to side of cottage (change of plan from that permitted under planning reg. No. S/3238/86) and (2) sunroom as constructed to rear of cottage and all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6723

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  Retention of dwelling house as built to include First floor gable windows, velux windows and change of window design and retention of a domestic garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6002

• 22 Aug 2017Conditional

  To construct a loose house and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6177

• 15 Jul 2015Conditional

  Construction of new dwelling house, domestic garage and new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5573

• 14 Jul 2015Conditional

  Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5547

• 1 Jun 2011Conditional

  Demolition of existing extension to side of cottage, construction of extension to western and northern side of cottage and retention of vehicular entrance as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5189

• 21 Jan 2008Conditional

  Extension to existing milking parlour, soiled water tank, meal bin, alterations to parlour holding yard and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4229

• 17 Dec 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of extension to existing milking parlour, soiled water tank, meal bin, alterations to parlour holding yard and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13103

• 6 May 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3051

• 8 Apr 2005Conditional

  Demolition of extension and construction of two storey extension and conservatory to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2220

• 21 Mar 2005Conditional

  Deposition of soil/subsoil

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1673

• 12 Jan 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/85

• 21 May 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse (Change of plan) and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3550

• 5 May 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3025

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 Rockborough.

Recorded monuments

• CO070-089 Designed landscape - belvedere
  Description

  Roofless overgrown tower to NE of Rockborough House (CO070-110----). Square in plan(c. 5m square); core at ground floor level is solid with door in S wall which leads via a lintelled passage through E side to stairs in N wall which rises to 1st floor level. Door in N wall between ground and 1st floor opens into stairway. Remains of wide window opes in walls of 1st floor chamber. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO070-110 Country house
  Description

  Rectangular 2-storey house; three gables on side (SW) elevation, otherwise roof hipped. Entrance front (SE) of 4 bays; off-centre doorway with fanlight; two ground-floor windows to right replaced by one large modern window. View front (NE) of 4 bays. One- and 2-storey stone-built farm buildings to N. Tower (CO070-089----) to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rockborough, 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 made ground.

Terrain model

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

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 Rockborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Rockborough · Rockborough

Area

466,489 m² (46.65 ha, 115.27 acres)

Civil parish

Macroom, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Macloneigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

905 people lived in 318 households in the Macloneigh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carriganine, Codrum, Gortyleahy, Lackaduff, Raleigh North

Placenames

Rockborough 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.