Rockingham Demesne
Rockingham Demesne is a townland in the civil parish of Boyle, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Diméin Phort na Carraige.
Parcel 679969
- Area
- 4,290 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 Zone 1 (Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
P6 Zone 1A (Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective - Townland
- Rockingham Demesne
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1304 (ZIP).
- 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.
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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
- 50.7 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 10,540 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres)
- Zoning
- P6
- Zone 1A
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockingham Demesne, from 598 m² to 121,339 m² (12.13 ha, 29.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P6Zone 1A (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Zone 1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Zone 3 (Open space, park)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Rockingham Demesne 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drum Bridge (Lough Key) 001631
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockingham Demesne.
Architectural heritage
- Rockingham House, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey crenellated gate house, built c.1810, flanked by single-storey bays to north and south. No longer in use. Roof hidden by crenellated parapet with decorative lead hopper remaining. Sandstone walls with punched limestone dressings. Limestone quoins to flanking bays with pinnacles to angles. Central four-centred integral carriage arch opening with tooled limestone trefoil-profiled surrounds and cast-iron gates. Vaulted ceiling to carriage arch. Square-headed and pointed-arched window openings with label and hood-mouldings, chamfered limestone surrounds and replacement windows. Central window flanked by limestone decorative panels. Pair of square-headed door openings within archway with tooled chamfered reveals, limestone thresholds and timber panelled and battened doors. Pedestrian wrought-iron gate in random rubble stone wall to north. Octagonal bollards flank roadway to east and west of gate house.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rockingham Demesne, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1304 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rockingham Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Rockingham Demesne · Diméin Phort na Carraige
- Area
- 507,255 m² (50.73 ha, 125.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Boyle Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,775 people lived in 640 households in the Boyle Rural electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Erris, Rockingham Demesne
- Placenames
- Rockingham Demesne 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.