Rocksavage

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rocksavage, from 486 m² to 102,828 m² (10.28 ha, 25.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Rocksavage 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.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  (1) change of use of existing barns / sheds to 2 self contained units for accommodation for short term letting, (2) construct a new single storey extension, 3) to refurbish existing barns / sheds with elevational changes & 4) to upgrade existing treatment system to epa guidelines to allow for the increased loading from the 2 self contained units, all with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660168

• 7 May 2026N/a

  (1) change of use of existing barns / sheds to 2 self contained units for accommodation for short term letting, (2) construct a new single storey extension, 3) to refurbish existing barns / sheds with elevational changes & 4) to upgrade existing treatment system to epa guidelines to allow for the increased loading from the 2 self contained units, all with associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660134

• 29 Jan 2026Refused

  Extension of duration for PL20/327

  Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 263

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  a detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560363

• 11 Nov 2025N/a

  a detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560357

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1) change of use of existing barns/sheds to 2 self contained units for accommodation for short term letting, (2) construct a new single storey extension, (3) to refurbish existing barns/sheds with elevational changes & (4) to upgrade existing treatment system to epa guidelines to allow for the increased loading from the 2 self contained units, all with associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 20327

• 7 Aug 2018Conditional

  retention of existing percolation area as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18314

• 10 Nov 2017Unconditional

  Ext of Duration for PL12/221 - Erection of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 17319

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• CW022-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Area (c. 24m N-S, 45m E-W) now covered with thorn bushes. Regarded locally as a 'rath'.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rocksavage, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Rocksavage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Rocksavage · Carraig an tSabháistigh

Area

378,284 m² (37.83 ha, 93.48 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mullins, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin's Lower

Electoral division

Ballymurphy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

282 people lived in 95 households in the Ballymurphy electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurphy, Kilmissan, Kyle, Mohullen, Mullannagaun, Seskin

Placenames

Rocksavage 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.