Rockfield

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfield, from 1,975 m² to 192,622 m² (19.26 ha, 47.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rockfield 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a livestock underpass and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560753

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  to demolish existing slatted shed and haybarn and replace with a new slatted shed with underground storage tanks/dry shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21388

• 28 Apr 2021N/a

  to demolish existing slatted shed and haybarn and replace with a new slatted shed with underground storage tanks/dry shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21239

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  for extension & alterations to existing dwelling to include living area (previous planning 00/1134)

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21243

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  construct a) walled silage base with concrete apron, 2) roof over existing silage pit for calving pens, 3) extend roof of existing hay barn and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17331

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 Rockfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockfield.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built c.1850. Pitched roof with recent corrugated metal and rendered barge coping, rendered chimneystack to south gable, uPVC rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls, concrete sills to window openings. Timber casement windows flanking timber sheeted entrance door. Recent timber boundary fence.

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 Rockfield, 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 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 Rockfield.

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 Rockfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Rockfield · Páirc na Carraige

Area

648,170 m² (64.82 ha, 160.17 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Kilnaleck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,216 people lived in 442 households in the Kilnaleck electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagegna, Carrickacroy, Cullow, Druminisclin, Sallaghill

Placenames

Rockfield 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.