Rockland

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockland, from 92 m² to 194,246 m² (19.42 ha, 48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Rockland 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 Rockland 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 Rockland.

Recorded monuments

• RO050-015 Well
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as Tobermore (Spring)', and situated in a low-lying landscape. It is now occupied by a resevoir, but was also known locally as 'Tober Bríd' (Gannon 1972). It is the source of the Killegland stream, but there is no evidence that it was ever a venerated holy well. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-033 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  A mill is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 towards the headwaters of the Killeglan river and above the castle (RO050-008001-) (Simington 1949, Athlone (46)). Situated on the SE bank of a loop of the stream and described as a corn mill on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 13.65m NW-SE; 6.35m NW-SE) surviving complete to two storeys with good quoins on the SW side of the R375 Ballinasloe to Athleague road. There are two inaccessible rooms at the ground floor, each with its own doorway on the NE side, while the NW room has two sluices at the base of the W wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-006 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 45m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW), and situated on a low-lying landscape at the S edge of a basin. This is a D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims 37m N-S; 15m E-W; H 0.2m at N to 1.3m at E) with traces of the facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1.2m) visible at the edge of the platform at E. The platform is truncated by a NNW-SSE field wall at W and a NE-SW field wall at S, and overlain by a N-S farm track. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-35m), and situated on a shelf at the W foot of Sheep Hill. It is not visible at ground level in pasture but was probably a rath. Ring-barrow (RO051-022----) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-023 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  Marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 at the W boundary of Onnagh (Simington 1949, Athlone (120)), and situated at the SW foot of Sheep Hill. This is a limestone cross facing N and S (total H 1.75m) with a solid ring which has decoration in false relief. The S face of the shaft (dims 0.3m x 0.18m; H 1.15m) has and inscription with the date 1623 and several sets of initials. It was read by Crawford (1919a) as: IHS / IK AD / AD 1623 / HT / CRUX / CRISTI / HW / - -, and Siggins (1986b, 35) reads the last unknown letters as D C. The cross is in a drystone-wall enclosure (dims 3.2m E-W; 2.5m N-S), but it is now obscured by thorn bushes. The ring-barrow (RO051-022----) is c. 80m to the NNE. (Crawford 1908a 181-2; 1922b) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rockland, 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 low.

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

Name

Rockland

Area

1,341,224 m² (134.12 ha, 331.42 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Taghmaconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

315 people lived in 106 households in the Taghmaconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellaneeny, Coolfree, Killeglan, Lugboy, Onagh, Tobermacloughlin

Placenames

Rockland 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.