Rossacrow

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossacrow, from 150 m² to 480,671 m² (48.07 ha, 118.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Apr 2026N/a

  the demolition of an existing single storey cottage and to erect a new single storey dwelling in its place, to replace the existing septic tank with a new effluent treatment unit and percolation system and all other ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660327

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  the relocation of existing carparking to facilitate the installation of an all weather pitch measuring 60 x 40 metres together with perimeter walls/ fencing to this pitch and installation of a 7 metre ball stop net at one end, relocation of permitted playing court, the installation of 4 no. 12 metre tall floodlights to all weather pitch, 1 no. 9 metre tall light to playing court together with lighting to car parking areas and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560118

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  the installation of 4 number replacement 18metre tall Floodlights to playing pitch together with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260142

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS051-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At base of a W-facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside with nearby ringfort (TS051-020----) c. 200m to S and enclosure (TS051-021----) c. 200m to SSE. Raised circular area (diam. 21.5m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1m; base Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m). No entrance feature visible. Field boundary intersects site at W with triangular-shaped raised platform (dims. 10m N-S; 10m E-W) jutting out from fosse at W may be remains of the intersection of earlier field boundaries which enclosed the monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS051-019 Well
  Description

  At base of a W-facing slope of hill face on wet poorly drained valley in upland region. Natural spring well enclosed by modern sandstone canopy which was constructed recently along with access road from main road. The well has no surviving religious associations. This was classified in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1997) as a 'Holy well'. Following field inspection there was no evidence to suggest this was a holy well or a well or pre-1700 date. It remains classified as a 'Well' but is not included in the current remit of the ASI. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS051-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SSW-facing slope of rising ground in undulating coutnryside overlooking valley to W. Nearby enclosure (TS051-021----) c. 100m to E and possible ringfort (TS051-018----) to N. Monument consists of a slightly raised area (diam. 21m SE-NW) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 1m; ext. H 0.3m; int. H 0.2m) of earth and stone reduced to a scarp in places and outer fosse (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 0.4m) with no entrance feature visible. Enclosing bank destroyed at E where old roadway and field boundary intersected the monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS051-021 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of high ground in upland area with good views in all directions with nearby ringforts (TS051-018----;TS051-020----) c. 200m to NW and c. 100m to W respectively. Only a small portion of the W bank survives as a field boundary, no surface remains elsewhere. Depicted as a large circular enclosure (diam. c.80m) on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and outlined on the subsequent 1903 ed. with a waterlogged fosse indicated in the E sector and internal scarp in the SW sector. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 June 2015

• TS051-024 House - 17th century
  Description

  On high ground with good views in all directions overlooking nearby bridge (TS051-026----) c. 200m to S and mill (TS051-025----) c. 100m to S. Modern bungalow built on site of Millbrook House which was pulled down in the 1940s according to the current landowner who described the old house as having an egg-shaped or oval-shaped thatched roof. Described as one of three thatchted houses in the Civil Survey (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 83) and depicted on the Down Survey map (1655-6) as having a dome-shaped roof. Only fragmentary remains of a walled garden associated with Millbrook House survive where they are incorporated into agricultural buildings. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS051-025 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  On flat floodplains of the Multeen River located to the S in an upland region. Only the lower courses of the S wall (wall T 0.7m; L 5m; H 1.3m) of the corn mill survive in the area marked on the 1903 OS 6-inch map along with possible mill pond and millrace which can be traced in the field immediately S of the wall. Possible retaining wall of either mill race or pond can be seen in field immediately S of surviving wall. Multeen river appears to have been diverted into silted up mill race further upstream down along the millrace to the S of the mill where it joined back up with the river at the bridge (TS051-026----) over the Multeen River. Depicted as a corn mill on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Water mill mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 83) and was described by Seymour (1917, 37-8) 'as consisting of the foundations of a more recent mill, while a considerable length of the old mill-race can be traced back along the slope of Rossacrow and parallel to the river'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS051-026 Bridge
  Description

  Modern iron bridge replaced earlier birdge traversing the Multeen River beside a water mill (TS051-025----) and Millbrook House (TS051-024----) all of which was depicted on the Down Survey map (1655-6) in the 17th century (Seymour 1916, 148). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement former parochial house, built c. 1880, with projecting gable-fronted entrance bay and hipped return and lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and paired moulded corbels to eaves course. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows having render label-mouldings, those of lower floors with decorative stops. Round-headed one-over-one pane sliding timber sash window to central-bay with paned margin. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door having an overlight and render label-moulding with decorative stops. Flight of sandstone steps to door with rendered balustrade. Free-standing statue to front of site.

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached south-facing cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1870, with three-bay nave elevations, one-bay transepts and having flat-roofed sacristy addition c. 1965 to north-west. Pitched copper-sheeted roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods and metal cross finials. Snecked dressed sandstone walls with dressed quoins and plinth, alternately-coloured voussoirs to openings, and buttresses between windows of nave. Gable front has moulded string course and segmental-headed recesses with statues and having gabled canopies. Pointed arch two-light window openings to nave, three-light to transepts and chancel and four-light to entrance front, all with chamfered surrounds, hood-mouldings and stained glass, having Y- tracery to nave and intersecting tracery to transepts, chancel and front elevation. Pointed arch door openings with chamfered surrounds and double-leaf timber battened doors to front and south sides of transepts. Sculpted marble reredos with figure sculpture, coloured marble colonnettes, sprocketed pinnacles and flanked by doorways to sacristy surmounted by crocketed gables with sculpted tympani. Sculpted marble altar in front of reredos. Timber arch braced collared truss roof visible to interior. Panelled timber gallery to entrance end of nave. Freestanding cast-iron belfry to north of site and rubble limestone grotto with cast-iron railings to front to north-east. Wrought-iron gates and railings with snecked sandstone plinth wall and concrete piers to front of site.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Rossacrow.

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.

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

Name

Rossacrow · Ros Cró

Area

1,199,813 m² (119.98 ha, 296.48 acres)

Civil parish

Aghacrew, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Lower

Electoral division

Donohill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donohill electoral division: 656 people in 242 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvasa, Glebe, Graffin, Knockgorman, Mealclye, Newtown, Rahyvira, Shanaknock

Placenames

Rossacrow 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.