# Rocklow, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathcool, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an Chondúnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 338,471 m² (33.85 ha, 83.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 8,624 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathcool, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/rathcool.md - Barony: Middlethird - Electoral division: Peppardstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/47879 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212821 - Centre: latitude 52.482326, longitude -7.71181 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 496328: 8,624 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/496328.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 2 Mar 2023, Tipperary County Council 2355: Conditional. Permission. the construction of an argricultural entrance including provision of a farm access roadway, and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2355/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rocklow. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rocklow. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rocklow House, house, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 22207003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TS®no=22207003. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rocklow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rocklow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rocklow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rocklow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballintemple: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballintemple-210144.md - Ballybough: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballybough.md - Glengaddy: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/glengaddy.md - Grangeduff: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/grangeduff.md - Monroe: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/monroe-212509.md - Rathavin: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathavin.md - Rathcool: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathcool.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rocklow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/rocklow