Rockhill

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockhill, from 48 m² to 89,034 m² (8.9 ha, 22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Rockhill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rockhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA095-137 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA095-138 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Rockhill House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached complex-plan four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having flat-roofed two-bay single-storey entrance block to front (west) elevation, and square-profile three-stage tower with pyramidal roof set into rear. Single-bay single-storey block with pitched slate roof to north gable, with two-bay three-storey block to rear of this, and flat-roofed two-storey single-bay additions to re-entrant corner of this block and main block. Half-hexagonal flat-roofed entrance porch extension to south elevation. Recent conservatory to west gable of north block. Hipped slate roof having clay ridge tiles and coursed limestone chimneystacks to main block. Pyramidal tile roof to tower. Pitched slate roof, hipped to west end, to north wing. Roughcast rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and double small-paned timber casement windows, ground floor openings having paned toplights. Pointed arch window openings to front porch having stone sills and timber latticed windows. Round-headed stair window opening to tower having stone sill and fixed timber window with fanlight. Square-headed front door opening having tooled limestone surround and timber panelled door with overlight. Square-headed door openings, having half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight to west end of front elevation, and half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door to south porch. Carriage arch with cut-stone voussoirs set in rubble stone boundary wall to north of house. Outbuilding to north with pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls and replacement timber fittings. Property is set within its own grounds having mature trees.

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 Rockhill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Rockhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rockhill · Cnoc na Carraige

Area

206,449 m² (20.64 ha, 51.01 acres)

Civil parish

Oranmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Oranmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,721 people lived in 1,706 households in the Oranmore electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Moneymore West, Oranhill, Parkroe, Rocklands

Placenames

Rockhill 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.