Roosca (Burke)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosca (Burke), from 1,125 m² to 781,706 m² (78.17 ha, 193.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Roosca (Burke) 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.

• 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

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  To demolish existing conservatory and to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house and canopy roof, all with associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22115

• 26 Jan 2022N/a

  demolish existing conservatory and to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house and canopy roof, all with associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2263

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 (Burke).

Recorded monuments

• TS081-040 Enclosure
  Description

  On the flat summit of a spur of outcrop, under pasture. There is a sharp drop from SE-S-SW and gentle drop to NW. Road runs roughly E-W along the NE quadrant. Roosca 'castle' (TS081-041----) is visible c. 150m to the SE. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and similarly depicted as a circular raised area on the 2nd (1906) ed. (diam. c. 27m N-S; c. 32m E-W). There is no visble trace of the monument above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 08 January 2014

• TS081-041001 House - 16th century
  Description

  On rock outcrop at the edge of a steep precipice which falls sharply to the S and W, overlooking a valley. A branch of the Butlers is associated with Roosca (Butler 2003, 453-61). Theobald Butler of ‘Rouskagh’ was the Sheriff of the Liberty of Tipperary in 1591-92 and when he died in 1595/6 he was succeeded by his son Pierce (ibid., 453-4). However, Pierce was subsequently attainted and the lands granted to Henry Piers of London in 1614 (ibid. 454). William Butler, an uncle of Pierce, secured the title from Piers and died at Roosca in 1634, being succeeded by his son Theobald (ibid. 455). The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes Roosca castle in 1640 as 'an old stone house coverred with thatch within a bawne' owned by Theobald Butler (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 367). A two-storey rectangular house of 16th-century date, constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with associated bawn (TS081-041002-). The building (19.2m x 10.5m externally; wall T 1.05m; E wall H 5m) is orientated N-S. According to the OS Letters there were two 'disfigured' doorways in the house, one at the S end of the E wall and the other at the N end of the W wall (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.1, 16). Both these sections of wall have collapsed and there is no surviving trace of any doorway. Internally the ground floor was divided by a stone wall (running E-W) 4.15m from the S gable, this wall does not survive. The room at the S end was lit by a single-light window in the W wall, the opposing section of E wall has collapsed. The larger portion of the ground floor was lit by a single-light on the E wall, the N end of the W wall has collapsed. There is a slop-stone in the larger section of the ground floor, on the W wall near the partition wall. The larger portion of the first floor rests on a wooden floor supported on sandstone corbels along the E and W wall while the small S chamber has a separate wooden floor which is supported on the cross-wall and the S gable. This S chamber is also apparent at first-floor level with evidence of a wooden partition. This upper S chamber was lit by a single-light ogee-headed window in the W wall and an ogee-headed window on the E wall, only the S jamb and portion of the head survives. The main chamber was lit by a two-light ogee-headed window at the N end of the E wall and by four windows on the W wall. There are no fireplaces or chimneys in this building, nor is there any garderobe. The house forms the SW angle of a bawn wall, built on top of the rock outcrop, the bawn (wall 0.75-0.9m T) extends NE from the SE angle of the house and N from the N gable. In the NE angle of the bawn there is a roughly circular tower which was built up against the bawn wall. This is a two-storey tower with shot-holes at each level. The tower was accessed from inside the bawn at ground-floor level and from the wall-walk of the bawn, which does not survive, at first-floor level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 January 2014

• TS081-041002 Bawn
  Description

  On rock outcrop at the edge of a steep precipice which falls sharply to the S and W, overlooking a valley. Bawn associated with house of sixteenth century date (TS081-041001-). The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes Roosca castle in 1640 as 'an old stone house coverred with thatch within a bawne' owned by Theobald Butler (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 367). The bawn (40.5m N-S; 22.35m E-W) is roughly rectangular in plan, the house forms the SW angle and there is no SE angle as the wall curves up towards the NE angle. It best survives on the W side where it survives to a max. height of 4.4m. At the S end of the W wall there is a musket loop (0.47m Wth). E of this there is a second opening, a wide-mouth musket loop (0.88m Wth x 0.63m H x 0.46m D). The W wall of the bawn abutts the N gable of the house, at this point the wall is 1.1m above the int. ground level and 2.4m above ext. ground level, which continues to drop steeply. At the NE angle there is a roughly circular tower (TS081-041003-). The base of the tower is probably built around bedrock, while appearing higher externally (6m H), internally it is two stories high (5m H). The tower was keyed into the existing bawn wall. It was entered from the SW at both ground and first-floor level. At ground-floor level there are three embrasures for musket-loops facing NE, E and SE. A series of small put-logs (c.0.2m in diam.) held the wooden timbers for the first floor. At first-floor level there are five embrasures for musket-loops, facing NW, N, NE, E and SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 January 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roosca (Burke).

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 (Burke), 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Roosca (Burke) · Rúscach (Burke)

Area

1,330,590 m² (133.06 ha, 328.8 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

Ballyea, Ballylaffin, Carrigataha, Crannavone, Killinure, Roosca (Hickey), Roosca (Miles), Scart

Placenames

Roosca (Burke) 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.