Rossfinch

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossfinch, from 26 m² to 201,689 m² (20.17 ha, 49.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  an extension to the side and rear of house, also to install a new effluent treatment system on the site

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23235

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage and entrance, install a treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20851

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rossfinch.

Recorded monuments

• TN025-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E-facing slope of a low hill in an upland area. A raised circular area (diam. 25m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) reduced to a scarp at E withan external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.5m) best preserved at W. No entrance feature visible. The ruins of farmhouse are nearby to the E. 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

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1883, with four-bay side elevations to nave, sacristy to northeast and with polygonal apse to east. Pitched slate roof, hipped to apse, with decorative banding, ornate cast-iron ridge cresting and with cut limestone belfry and cross finial to gable-front. Projecting cut limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Dressed yellow sandstone walls with buttresses to gable front and to nave and with cut limestone plinth and quoins and with plat-bands to gable-front. Chamfered cut limestone surrounds to window and door openings, with red sandstone voussoirs above hood-mouldings. Three-light lancet window to gable front, with stained glass. Pointed-arch lancets to nave and chancel. Triple square-headed light to sacristy. Pointed-arch main entrance with replacement timber double-leaf door and over-light, flanked by trefoil windows, all with hood-mouldings and linked by plat-band. Side entrance at west end of north wall has limestone over-door with carved cross. Exposed arch-braced king-post truss roof to interior. Carved marble reredos. Timber gallery to entrance end. Decorative cast-iron entrance gates and railings and with graveyard to 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 Rossfinch.

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 Rossfinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rossfinch · Ros Fuinse

Area

1,676,040 m² (167.6 ha, 414.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnarath, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Birdhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Birdhill electoral division: 743 people in 251 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahinch, Cappadine, Garraun, Kilmastulla, Shanbally

Placenames

Rossfinch 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.