Rosslee
Rosslee is a townland in the civil parish of Myshall, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Ros Laí.
Parcel 788720
- Area
- 272,678 m² (27.27 ha, 67.38 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,712 m².
- 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
- Rosslee
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 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 196.5 ha
- 486 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 7,919 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosslee, from 222 m² to 272,678 m² (27.27 ha, 67.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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
No zone of a development plan covers Rosslee 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
29 Mar 2026Conditional
an existing mobile home and all ancillary site works and Planning Permission for restoration works to existing two storey dwelling, construction of a part two storey and single storey extension to the rear of existing two storey dwelling, external patio area, interior and exterior alterations, change of use for existing single storey living / dining room into a carport and all ancillary site works and landscaping
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2660086
10 Dec 2024Conditional
a new two storey dwelling, garage, treatment system, bored well, new entrance & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460399
16 Sept 2024Conditional
for the construction of a single-storey dwelling, detached garage, septic tank & percolation area, bored well, splayed entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2460289
6 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction of a shed, used partly for general domestic use and partly used as a work shop, and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22291
27 Feb 2019Conditional
for the construction of a single storey dwelling, single storey garage, bored well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 1977
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 Rosslee.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rosslee.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rosslee.
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 Rosslee, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rosslee.
- 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 Rosslee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Rosslee · Ros Laí
- Area
- 1,965,484 m² (196.55 ha, 485.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Myshall, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Shangarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 568 people lived in 187 households in the Shangarry electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydarton, Clashganny, Clonee East, Clonetoose, Kilmaglush, Rathercan, Shangarry
- Placenames
- Rosslee 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.