Rockville

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockville, from 281 m² to 183,077 m² (18.31 ha, 45.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Rockville 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 Rockville 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockville.

Recorded monuments

• RO017-089001 Ceremonial enclosure
  Description

  On top of a drumlin in mixed woodland called Mullinashee Wood which had been recently cut in 1996. In 1535 Maelsechlainn Mc Cairbre O Birn was killed here by some MacDermots, (MacDermot 1996, 133; ALC vol. 2, 289). This is a circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.7-1m). It is listed as a hillfort (O'Nuallain 1968, 26), and cairn (RO017-089002-) is at the centre. Rath (RO017-041----) is c. 120m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-089002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On top of a drumlin and within a mixed woodland called Mullinashee Wood which had been recently cut in 1996. Circular, round-topped cairn (diam. 25m; H 3.2m) within the ceremonial enclosure (RO017-089001-). It is listed as a possible passage tomb (Ó Nualláin 1968, 26) although there is no evidence of a kerb or passage. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 141) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rockville.

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 Rockville, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rockville.

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 Rockville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Rockville · Carraig Chionáith

Area

814,685 m² (81.47 ha, 201.31 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Aughrim East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 88 households in the Aughrim East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlougher, Aughrim, Carricklom, Carrigeenduff, Dooneen, Toomore

Placenames

Rockville 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.