Rossaguile
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnarath, barony of Owney And Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ros an Ghaill
- Area
- 160.6 ha
- 397 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,924 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossaguile, from 138 m² to 356,917 m² (35.69 ha, 88.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Rossaguile 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
22 Sept 2025Conditional
an agricultural slatted shed, demolition of old silage slab and construction of new silage slab with side walls and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25201
17 Jul 2025Conditional
to construct a calf shed and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25139
11 Mar 2022Conditional
a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance, removal of existing dwelling subfloor & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260119
9 Jun 2020Conditional
alterations to dwelling from that previously granted Ref. 5124277 to include; revised height, additional windows, patio door to rear and velux rooflights to rear
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20569
9 Jul 2018Conditional
construction of an extension to an existing slatted shed which will include cubicles and a new slatted tank
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600874
29 May 2018N/a
construction of an extension to an existing slatted shed which will include cubicles and a new slatted tank
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600667
23 May 2017Conditional
for an agricultural shed
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600573
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
- TN031-052 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN031-053) to the E. A barely discernible circular area (diam. 23m N-S) defined by a scarp with slight evidence of a possible entrance gap at S. Severely eroded site probably due to ploughing. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN031-091 Road - road/trackway
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area. Poorly preserved traces of a barely discernible metalled roadway (Wth 3.5m) running N-S. According to the OS Namebooks this was an old road used by Cromwell along which he conducted his armies and military stores. SMR TN031-042 and TN031-092 are part of same roadway. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rossaguile.
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 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 Rossaguile.
- 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
- Rossaguile, Newport5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Rossaguile · Ros an Ghaill
- Area
- 1,605,864 m² (160.59 ha, 396.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnarath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney And Arra
- Electoral division
- Killoscully, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killoscully electoral division: 510 people in 170 households; 91% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhourigan, Curraghduff, Doonane, Drumbaun, Garraunbeg, Gortacoula, Kilmacogue, Newross
- Placenames
- Rossaguile 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.