Rockview
Townland in the civil parish of Dorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Clochar
- Area
- 97.7 ha
- 242 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 13,418 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockview, from 735 m² to 528,032 m² (52.8 ha, 130.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rockview 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Aug 2026N/a
as constructed extension to the rear of dwelling house and existing entrance located along local road L5044 as vehicular entrance and all associated site works and PERMISSION for completion of same extension, demolition and removal of existing boundary wall and pedestrian entrance located to the front of the dwelling house and along regional road R438 and replace the wall with concrete block wall set back 2 metres at junction with local road L5044, block up entrance gate located east of the existing dwelling house along local road L5044 and replace the gateway with a pedestrian entrance gate at this location and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 26116
4 Nov 2021Conditional
for following agricultural development, (a) Shed No. 1; consisting of Livestock Slatted Shed with underground slurry storage tank, Loose Cattle Area and Central Passage. (b) Shed No. 2; consisting of 2 No. Stables, Hay Storage Area, Dung Stead Area and Passageway. (c) Shed No. 3; consisting of Loose Cattle Area, 2 No. Stables and Passageway and associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211608
29 Jun 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and driveway along with all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600819
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockview.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockview.
Architectural heritage
- Rockview House, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house with basement and attic, built c.1750, with shallow return to rear, recent glazed conservatory addition to front, two-storey flat-roof 1960s addition to rear return and single-storey extension to north gable. Pitched artificial slate roofs with roof-lights to rear of main block. Rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to ground floor and centre of first floor and two-over-two pane elsewhere, and eight-over-eight pane, barred two-over-two pane, timber casement and some replacement uPVC to rear, all with cut-stone sills. Timber panelled front door with spoked fanlight in round-headed opening. Limestone outbuildings to north and west of house having coursed rubble limestone walls, pitched slate roofs and brick quoins and surrounds to openings.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rockview.
- 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. 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rockview with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Rockview · An Clochar
- Area
- 977,401 m² (97.74 ha, 241.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dorrha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Graigue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Graigue electoral division: 303 people in 99 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Rockview 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.