Rosbercon

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosbercon, from 16 m² to 49,097 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  for side entrance extension to an existing playschool building

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20851

• 18 Oct 2019N/a

  for the erection of an extension to an existing animal feed bulk storage building including concrete apron and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19779

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  for replacement and relocation of the existing 15 metre high freestanding wooden pole communication structure and its associated antennae communication dishes and ground equipment, with a 20metre high free standing monopole communication structure, carrying antennae and communication dishes, with associated ground-mounted equipment cabinets with a relocated 2.4m high palisade compound at ESB's Rosbercon 38kV Substation

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1927

• 27 Feb 2018N/a

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18132

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rosbercon.

Architectural heritage

• Bawnjames House, house, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey house, extant 1885, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch to ground floor. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with roll moulded ridge tiles, paired rendered panelled central chimney stacks on rendered bases having ogee-detailed cornice capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves on ogee-detailed cornice with cast-iron square profile downpipes. Fine roughcast walls on rendered chamfered cushion course on rendered plinth with vermiculated rusticated quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening into house with glazed timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with rendered chamfered sill course, and rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-limestone sills, and rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with margined rock faced ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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 Rosbercon, 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 Rosbercon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rosbercon · Ros Bearrcon

Area

222,659 m² (22.27 ha, 55.02 acres)

Civil parish

Rosbercon, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

Rosbercon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

704 people lived in 243 households in the Rosbercon Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annefield, Annefield (Co. Wexford), Garranbehy Big, Garranbehy Little, Glinn, Millbanks, Rosbercon (Co. Wexford), Rosbercon Millbanks (Co. Wexford), Tinnakilly Big

Placenames

Rosbercon 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.