Rockvale

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockvale, from 62 m² to 85,438 m² (8.54 ha, 21.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rockvale 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.

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211238

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  a) the existing single storey garage conversion from garage to living space, b) single storey link access corridor to existing two storey dwelling, c) all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211079

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a single storey rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201532

• 8 Oct 2020N/a

  construction of a single storey rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201156

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockvale.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1168 (ZIP).

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 Rockvale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rockvale · Gleann na Carraige

Area

268,878 m² (26.89 ha, 66.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnarath, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Kilnarath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnarath electoral division: 376 people in 129 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahane, Carrowkeale, Mackney (Bourke), Mackney (O'Brien), Newross, Oakhampton

Placenames

Rockvale 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.