Roesborough
Townland in the civil parish of Tipperary, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile na mBocht
- Area
- 135.3 ha
- 334 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 4,656 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roesborough, from 984 m² to 330,338 m² (33.03 ha, 81.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Roesborough 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
28 May 2026Conditional
construction of a replacement wastewater treatment system to include 6PE treatment unit and percolation area; and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660518
24 Apr 2026N/a
1) the first floor living accommodation of the dwelling, and 2) to retain the enclosing of an open porch, to form ground floor living accommodation, and for PLANNING PERMISSION to 3) permanently close a site entrance to the property, including all associated site development works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2648
23 Jun 2023Conditional
1) Alterations to existing dwelling. 2) Erection of two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling. 3) Installation of Effluent Treatment System and soil polishing filter. 4) Erection of double garage. 5) Construction of new entrance to replace the existing entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360446
12 May 2023N/a
1) Alterations to existing dwelling 2) Erection of two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling 3) Installation of Effluent Treatment System and soil polishing filter 4) Erection of double garage 5) Construction of new entrance to replace the existing entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360315
11 Sept 2022Conditional
a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260472
11 Feb 2022Conditional
(1) domestic extension to the rear of my dwelling (2) windows to the original dwelling structure (3) and including all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22111
12 Jan 2022Conditional
removal of window from west elevation of house and insertion of window in east elevation; insertion of roof window in west facing roof slope; construction of detached garage; construction of boiler shed and oil tank; erection of timber play house; relocation of septic tank from location shown on drawings associated with planning ref. P.3.3251 and provision of puraflo treatment units; and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260006
7 Jan 2022N/a
Retention Permission for the following: Removal of window from west elevation of house and insertion of window in east elevation; Insertion of roof window in west facing roof slope; Construction of detached garage; Construction of boiler shed and oil tank; Erection of timber play house; Relocation of septic tank from location shown on drawings associated with planning ref. P.3.3251 and provision of puraflo treatment units; and all associated site and ancillary works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260004
11 Oct 2021Conditional
(a) Retention of existing milking parlour, dairy and calving shed (b) Retention of extended cubicle shed (c) Permission to construct a calf rearing shed (d) Permission to construct 2 no. silage pits and a dungstead (e) Permission to construct underground slatted slurry storage tanks with a roofed feeding passage overhead (f) Permission for a new drafting and handling area adjacent to existing milking parlour, extended collecting yard and an underground slatted soiled water tank and all associated siteworks
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211497
23 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) extend the ridge line of existing roof and construct a first floor extension within the attic space (2) carry out alterations to the existing entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211250
17 Jul 2019Conditional
(1) Retention of existing domestic garage (2) Retention of rear extension (3) Retention of two shower rooms (4) Retention of garage conversion (5) Retention of open porch door unit (6) Retention of front window replacing a patio door unit
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600798
16 Oct 2018Conditional
extensions and alterations to existing house to include a (1) granny flat with extended kitchen and entrance porch together with (2) works to main house to include new porch, kitchen dining, sitting area, utilities and alterations to doors and windows (3) provision of a new treatment plant and sand polishing filter bed and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601246
24 Apr 2018Conditional
modifications and extension to dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600499
28 Feb 2018N/a
Modifications and extension to dwelling and associates site works.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600252
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 Roesborough.
Recorded monuments
- TS066-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on slightly higher area of field. Oval area (dims. 26m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) NW-E-SSW and scarp (Wth 2.7m; H 1.4m) SSW-NW; Possible entrance (Wth 1.75m) at W. Bank has occasional cattle breaches (Wth c. 1-1.5m) and is denuded SSE-SSW. Fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.25m). Remains of low profile outer bank (Wth 7m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.2m) traceable SE-SW and NNW-N and NNE-ENE. Interior has a general slope to E and is covered in tussocks of grass; Depression within is defined S-W-NE; Linear feature (long-axis E-W; L c. 2m; Wth 1.35m; D 0.25m) in W sector may be associated with possible entrance. Low, saddle like area to WSW between monument and pond. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS066-204 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 14m) identified on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 16 December 2016) by Jean-Charles Caillère. It appears to have an internal fosse and outer bank. The size and morphology of the enclosure suggest it is a ring-barrow. There is another possible ring-barrow c. 50m to the S. See attached photograph: TS066-204----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (16 December 2016) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 December 2019
- TS066-205 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 14m) identified on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 16 December 2016) by Jean-Charles Caillère. It appears to have an internal fosse and outer bank. The size and morphology of the enclosure suggest it is a ring-barrow. There is another possible ring-barrow c. 50m to the S. See attached photograph: TS066-204----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (16 December 2016) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 December 2019
- TS066-231 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In low-lying wet terrain of former meandering streams, with a stream flowing roughly NW-SE c. 60m to the W, in pasture. A circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 9m), defined by a fosse, visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 16 December 2016 and 20 January 2020), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There are two ring-barrows (TS066-204----; TS066-205----) c. 650m and 610m to the NW respectively. See attached: TS066-231----_01 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date, 16 December 2016) TS066-231----_02 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date, 20 January 2020) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2022
Architectural heritage
- Roesborough House, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820, now in state of ruin. Presents two storeys to front and three to rear and has two-bay end elevations. Roofless with cut limestone corbel table to eaves and having red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls with red brick internal masonry and render quoins. Square-headed window openings with brick surrounds and limestone sills. Tall round-headed window to middle of rear elevation. Some blocked segmental-arched openings to west end of rear. Remains of doorcase with limestone Doric engaged column, with steps. Seven-bay and five-bay ranges of two-storey outbuildings to rear of house with pitched slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks, limestone corbel tables and rendered and painted walls with double timber casement windows and round-headed pedestrian and elliptical-headed vehicular entrances. Flat-headed carriageway through middle of smaller range with recessed round-headed panel overhead occupying first floor and having keystone.
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 5 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 Roesborough.
- 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 Roesborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Roesborough · Baile na mBocht
- Area
- 1,353,491 m² (135.35 ha, 334.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tipperary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Tipperary Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tipperary Rural electoral division: 2,159 people in 814 households; 72% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvee, Ballynilard, Barronstown (Ormond), Bohercrow, Shronell Beg
- Placenames
- Roesborough 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.