Rocklow

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Rocklow, from 8,624 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres) to 8,624 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Rocklow 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.

• 2 Mar 2023Conditional

  the construction of an argricultural entrance including provision of a farm access roadway, and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2355

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 Rocklow.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rocklow.

Architectural heritage

• Rocklow House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c. 1790, with central canted porch and having two-bay two-storey addition c. 1850 to west with canted bay and canted oriel window over doorway, further L-plan multiple-bay lower two-storey addition to west of latter and conservatory to rear elevation. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls having render quoins and eaves course, with cut limestone plinth to main block. Moulded string course between floors of two-storey addition. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sash sliding windows and limestone sills, barred to basement. Porch comprising square-headed opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors flanked by Doric engaged columns supporting entablature and moulded cornice with panel and in turn flanked by one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows flanked by Doric pilasters and having render plinth. Windows to oriel have panels beneath. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings around courtyard adjoining house to west entered through elliptical arched carriage entrance with dressed limestone piers. Buildings have slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, painted rendered walls with round and rectangular panels. Mainly square-headed window openings with timber casements. Some round-headed windows and doors with timber spoked fanlights. Some square-headed timber panelled doors. Three-bay elliptical arched arcade to north-west side having dressed limestone voussoirs, raised keystones, piers with plinths and imposts and timber battened double-leaf doors. Clock in round panel over centre arch, with painted brick surround. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge to road entrance, having projecting gable-fronted bay in end wall. Hipped slate roof with brick chimneystacks, painted rendered walls with plinth course and square-headed windows set into square-headed recesses with dentils. Replacement uPVC windows and door. Square-profile limestone piers with carved limestone gabled caps.

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 Rocklow, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rocklow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rocklow · Baile an Chondúnaigh

Area

338,471 m² (33.85 ha, 83.64 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcool, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Peppardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,444 people lived in 534 households in the Peppardstown electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballybough, Glengaddy, Grangeduff, Monroe, Rathavin, Rathcool

Placenames

Rocklow 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.