Roosca (Hickey)

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosca (Hickey), from 1,951 m² to 410,436 m² (41.04 ha, 101.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Roosca (Hickey) 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.

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system and entrance, utilising the existing farm entrance from the public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560605

• 17 Jun 2025N/a

  dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, utilising the existing farm entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560571

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) an extension to the side of dwelling house with minor alterations to existing elevations, (2) an extension to garage, (3) a new vehicular entrance and access drive and to reduce the existing vehicular entrance to form a pedestrian entrance with all other with associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461152

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  refurbishment works to 24.3 km of overhead line, 9 no. steel towers and 121 no. wooden polesets within County Tipperary. These lie between the existing Cahir Substation in the townland of Ballyhenebery, and the border with County Cork in the townland of Coolapreavan, crossing the County Tipperary townlands of: Ballyhenebery, Monaraha, Ballymacadam West, Killeenbutler, Garnavilla, Ballybrada, Cranna, Roosca (Hickey), Roosca (Burke), Crannavone, Killinure, Ballyhohan, Ballygarrane, Derravoher, Burges West, Curraghatoor, Kilroe, Kilbeg, Inchnamuck, Ballysheehan, Shanbally, Knockaarum, Cullenagh South, Carriganroe, Coolantallagh, Carrigavisteal, Dangan, Cooladerry, Knocknagapple and Coolapreavan. The development also includes 3 no. temporary construction compounds in the townlands of Killeigh, Garnavilla and Knockaarum. The works in County Tipperary will consist of: the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line (OHL) circuit conductor wires; replacement of 5 no. towers and 35 no. polesets with similar dimensions and heights as the existing; installation of replacement parts on towers and polesets; foundation refurbishment / strengthening and recapping / clearing of shear blocks; all associated site development works, including temporary works areas; clearance of shear block bases; vegetation maintenance works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance and levelling at the 3 no. temporary construction compounds, temporary works to existing tracks and new temporary access routes to each structure; and all associated works required to facilitate the Proposed Development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461133

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2460878

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 Roosca (Hickey).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roosca (Hickey).

Architectural heritage

• Thonoge House, house, 1680–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, southern five bays built c. 1680, end bays paired, and northern two bays built c.1860, latter having recent single-storey extension to south bay at rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, all having limestone sills. Elliptical-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround, having replacement timber panelled door flanked by panelled pilasters, having decorative arcade detail to fanlight, and limestone steps. Segmental-arched pedestrian entrance with brick voussoirs, to yard behind and to north-east of site, with wrought-iron gate and set into crenellated wall. Cast-iron double-leaf entrance gates to yard, set to dressed limestone piers. Three-bay single storey gate lodge to east of site with pitched slate roof and pebbledashed walls. Cast-iron gates set to dressed limestone piers flanked by rubble limestone walls to front of site and to yard, one leading to yard of single-storey outbuildings with rendered, concrete and limestone walls and corrugated-iron roofs.

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 Roosca (Hickey), 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roosca (Hickey).

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 Roosca (Hickey) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Roosca (Hickey) · Rúscach (Hickey)

Area

785,599 m² (78.56 ha, 194.13 acres)

Civil parish

Tubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Tubbrid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

653 people lived in 227 households in the Tubbrid electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigataha, Cranna, Roosca (Burke), Roosca (Miles)

Placenames

Roosca (Hickey) 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.