Rossadown

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossadown, from 399 m² to 178,633 m² (17.86 ha, 44.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Rossadown 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.

• 16 Aug 2021N/a

  retain a hard standing area and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21573

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  construct a new agricultural shed and dungsted together with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18383

• 25 Aug 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, effluent treatment system percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary site services and associated site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17465

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossadown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rossadown, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rossadown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rossadown · Ros an Dúin

Area

1,272,654 m² (127.27 ha, 314.48 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Lacka, the unit of the census

Census 2022

309 people lived in 96 households in the Lacka electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bughorn, Clonin, Glenbower, Killinure, Lacka, Roundwood

Placenames

Rossadown 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.