Roxborough
Townland in the civil parish of Inchinabacky, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Roxborough
Parcel 5375352
- Area
- 4,553 m² (0.46 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 230 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Roxborough
Planning applications on this parcel
23 Mar 2017Conditional
Dwelling with detached garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance on to public roadway and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4696
18 Jul 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8979
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 51 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,316 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roxborough, from 252 m² to 166,464 m² (16.65 ha, 41.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roxborough 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Planning permission for retention of an existing domestic shed to the rear of the dwelling and planning permission for the construction of a single-storey side and rear extension and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1697
9 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission to erect a detached domestic garage/shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6038
31 Aug 2017Conditional
Construct a new machinery shed and walled manure pit with associated underground soiled water storage tank. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6254
23 Mar 2017Conditional
Dwelling with detached garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance on to public roadway and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4696
20 Jan 2014Conditional
Erect a single storey sun-lounge extension to front of existing single storey dwelling, alterations to the windows on front facade and addition of dormer extension to rear of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4082
9 Feb 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4905
22 Dec 2006Conditional
Retention of alterations to dwellinghouse, use of basement area as utility area, installation of 2 no. windows and change existing window to exit doors
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13856
22 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13756
22 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Retention of basement area and 2 no. windows
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12525
15 Sept 2006Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10631
18 Jul 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8979
19 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8197
18 Jul 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5126
20 Jun 2005Incompleted application
Construct dormer-type dwelling and install bio-wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4307
5 May 2004Withdrawn
Dormer dwelling and biological waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3046
30 Apr 2004Conditional
Alterations, ground floor and first floor extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2949
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roxborough.
Recorded monuments
- CO076-029 Country house
Description
Overgrown fragmentary remains of late 17th century/early 18th century 2-storey house (int. 12.15m E-W; 7m N-S; wall thickness 1.8m). NE corner does not survive; base batter on remains of E and W end walls and short section of N wall. W gable wall survives to full height supporting a chimney. Entrance front (S) of three bays survives to ground floor height; collapsed door ope at W end with draw bar sockets. Named 'Roxborough Ho.' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Roxborough.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roxborough.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roxborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Roxborough · Roxborough
- Area
- 509,779 m² (50.98 ha, 125.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchinabacky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Midleton Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Midleton Rural electoral division: 10,049 people in 3,372 households; 68% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Roxborough 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.