Rockspring

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockspring, from 472 m² to 261,182 m² (26.12 ha, 64.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rockspring 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.

• 9 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic and all associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240128

• 8 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage under roof

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230920

• 23 Dec 2022Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage under roof

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221735

• 9 Aug 2022Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage under roof

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221068

• 13 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a 24ft x 20ft steel shed and associated site

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201339

• 31 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE DEPOSITION OF SURPL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160591

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 Rockspring.

Recorded monuments

• WX016-049 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Rockspring 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 47-8). It is situated on a S-facing slope at the W foot of Carrigroe Hill. It was completely excavated (E4262) by Y. Whitty as a rectangular trough (dims 1.7m x 1.4m; D 0.28m) that had four stake-holes along the base at its W side and sloped down slightly to the E. A subcircular pit (dims 1.4m x 1.2m; D 0.12-0.17m) was just to the E and a rectangular pit (dims 1.5m x 0.94m; D 0.2m) was just to the E of this. All features contained burnt mound material, but there was no spread of the mound. A sample from the base of the trough produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 1207-1009. (McNamara 2011; Whitty 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 November, 2013

• WX016-072001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing slope of a low E-W spur at the W base of Carrigroe Hill and at the headwaters of a small stream that runs off to the SW. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004646) during the establishment of a storage area for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway identified five archaeological areas which were excavated (E004809) as Rockspring 2 in February 2017 when one area proved to be modern. Area 1 consists of two fulachta fia and a burnt mound, all badly cut by E-W stone drains. This eastern fulacht fia has a rectangular trough (dims 1.6m x 1.6m; D 0.5m) with stakeholes at the corners of the trough and others surrounding its rim. The trough was filled with sandy clay and heat-shattered stones. The trough was recut as a subcircular feature (dims 1.95m x 1.6m; D 1.25m) just to the N of the original and this one may have been lined with clay. Its fill consists of five layers with varying amounts of ash or charcoal. A natural hollow (dims 4.5m x 3.2m; D 0.11m) just SE of the trough was filled with some redeposited burnt stone. The mound (dims 16m N-S; 4.9m N-S; T 0.06m) lay just to the S and was truncated by an E-W drain at S. No artefacts were recovered (Turrell & Kavanagh 2018, 9-14) See the attached plan from Turrell & Kavanagh (2018, fig. 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 5 November 2020

• WX016-072002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing slope of a low E-W spur at the W base of Carrigroe Hill and at the headwaters of a small stream that runs off to the SW. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004646) during the establishment of a storage area for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway identified five archaeological areas which were excavated (E004809) as Rockspring 2 when one area proved to be modern. Area 1 consists of two fulachta fia and a burnt mound, all badly cut by E-W stone drains. The western fulacht fia has an oval trough (dims 2.6m x 2.1m; D 0.8m) that had 134 stakeholes at its N end in two clumps in a relatively small area (dims c. 1.7m x c. 1.5m). The trough was re-cut twice after periods of abandonment and was filled with peaty silts. It had charcoal lenses against the edges and only had burnt stone at the top of the final cut. There were also seven pits (dims 0.85m x 05m; D 0.15m to 2.1m x 1.9m; D 0.2m) in the vicinity, some filled with broken and burnt stone. However, three of the pits were outside the mound of broken and burnt stone (dims 18m x 5.9m; T 0.08m) which was truncated at S by a field drain. No artefacts were recovered. Just to the S of this fulacht fia was a burnt mound (dims 24m E-W; 3.4m N-S; T 0.07m) but this was truncated by stone field drains at N and S and produced no other features or artefacts. (Turrell and Kavanagh 2018, 9-14) See the attached plan from Turrell & Kavanagh (2018, fig. 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November 2020

• WX016-072003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing slope of a low E-W spur at the W base of Carrigroe Hill and at the headwaters of a small stream that runs off to the SW. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004646) during the establishment of a storage area for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway identified five archaeological areas which were excavated (E004809) as Rockspring 2 when one area proved to be modern. Area 2 consisted of 14 layers of broken and burnt stone interleaved with silts and marls creating a large mound (dims 11m E-W; c. 8m N-S; H c. 0.4m). The mound material was lying over three troughs in a NE-SW line. The N trough is rectangular and round-bottomed (dims 1.7m x 1.4m; D 0.6m) and has a small metalled surface (dims 1.6m x 1m) at its SE edge. It is separated by 2m from the central rectangular trough (dims 2.1m x 1.5m; D 0.72m) with a flat base which has a small hearth (dims 09m x 0.8m) with a fire-reddened base just to the NW. The central tough is separated by c. 1.1m from the sub-triangular and flat-based S trough (dims 1.7m x 1.4m; D 0.5m) at the S edge of the mound. All the troughs were filled with some broken and burnt stones. There were two channels (L 7.3m; Wth c. 1.4m; D 0.4m: L 3.2m; Wth 1.6m; D 0.38m) extending NW and N from the N edge of the mound that meld into the slope with distance from the mound. Three small flints were recovered. (Turrell and Kavanagh 2018, 15-18) See the attached plan from Turrell & Kavanagh (2018, fig. 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November 2020

• WX016-072004 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing slope of a low E-W spur at the W base of Carrigroe Hill and at the headwaters of a small stream that runs off to the SW. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004646) during the establishment of a storage area for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway identified five archaeological areas which were excavated (E004809) as Rockspring when one area proved to be modern. Area 3 consisted of burnt mound material overlying five troughs, four pits and a gully, with some concentrations of stake-holes. The large mound (dims 12.5m x 8.25m; T 0.16m) covered most of the features. A rectangular trough (dims 1.8m x 0.73m; D 0.6m) was outside the mound at NW and had a concentration (dims c. 1.7m x c. 1.2m) of 25 stakeholes just to the SE. These were grouped into four clusters, and two post-holes c. 1.5m to the SE were 1.5m apart. At the N edge of the mound were two troughs. A rectangular trough (dims 2.1m x 1.6m; D 0.3m) was connected by a channel to an oval trough (dims 1.7m x 1.25m; D 0.4m) to its W by a surface gully (L 1.4m). About 2.5m to the S and under the centre of the mound two troughs were placed c. 0.5m apart. One was oval (dims 1.9m x 0.94m; D 0.44m) with three stakeholes in the base and the other rectangular (dims 1.75m x 0.92m; D 0.28m) with a stakehole in each corner. The troughs were filled with slits and clays with varying amounts of burnt stone. There were also some pits, but no artefacts were recovered. (Turrell and Kavanagh 2018, 19-23) See the attached plan from Turrell & Kavanagh (2018, fig. 6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November 2020

• WX016-072005 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing slope of a low E-W spur at the W base of Carrigroe Hill and at the headwaters of a small stream that runs off to the SW. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004646) during the establishment of a storage area for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway identified five archaeological areas which were excavated (E004809) as Rockspring 2 when one area proved to be modern. Area 4 is a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 21m x 17m; T 0.22-0.28m) overlying a rectangular trough (dims 2.4m x 1.7m; D 0.44m) with seven stakeholes in the base. It was recut on a smaller scale (dims 1.46m x 0.75m; D 0.36m) with traces of timber lining, and seven layers of sand with heat shattered stone filed the troughs. There were three post-holes and 66 stakeholes in the vicinity, the stakeholes being largely confined to the SE edge of the trough in two concentrations. There is a natural spring 3m NW of the trough which ran off to the SW in a drain, and the E edge of the mound was cut by a N-S stone wall and its construction trench. No artefacts were recovered. (Turrell and Kavanagh 2018, 24-9) See the attached plan from Turrell & Kavanagh (2018, fig. 8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November 2020

Architectural heritage

• Rockspring House, farm house, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, built 1799, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (east). Sold, 1853. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, rooflights to rear (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast walls; cement rendered surface finish to rear (east) elevation with cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with timber mullions on cut-granite threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two or eight-over-eight timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes centred on six-over-six timber sash window without horns (first floor). Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining herring bone-pattern timber parquet floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landings framing timber panelled doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds including terrace centred on flight of six lichen-covered steps.

• Rockspring House, folly, 1841–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-stage turret, extant 1904, on an octagonal plan. Moss-covered conical thatch roof on timber construction with ball finial-capped exposed wire stretchers to apex having exposed wire scallops, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Red brick Flemish bond walls. Pointed-arch central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron glazing bars. Set in walled garden in grounds shared with Rockspring House.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rockspring, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rockspring.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rockspring with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rockspring · Tobar na Carraige

Area

719,260 m² (71.93 ha, 177.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Ballymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

516 people lived in 168 households in the Ballymore electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Bolacreen, Kilcasey Upper, Kilcaysan, Knockrobin Upper, Quarry

Placenames

Rockspring 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.