Rocker

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rocker, from 158 m² to 103,082 m² (10.31 ha, 25.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rocker 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.

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  construction of a new part two storey, part single storey 4 bedroom dwelling house, new single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, on site wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22217

• 7 Mar 2022N/a

  construction of a new part two storey, part single storey 4 bedroom dwelling house, new single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, on site wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22194

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 Rocker.

Recorded monuments

• TN035-014 Chapel
  Description

  No surface remains visible. Situated on E bank of river Suir with nearby church site (TN035-015) to E. Depicted as Chapel (in Ruins) on 1st. ed. OS 6-inch map. Possible penal church. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0.

No address of the register names Rocker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rocker · Rocar

Area

500,653 m² (50.07 ha, 123.71 acres)

Civil parish

Loughmoe West, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Loughmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughmore electoral division: 662 people in 231 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloone, Graiguefrahane, Kilnaseer, Laghile, Penane, Tinvoher

Placenames

Rocker 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.