Rossard

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossard, from 27 m² to 329,124 m² (32.91 ha, 81.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rossard 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.

• 10 Feb 2026Refused

  Permission to construct a horse gallops with associated site works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260154

• 9 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following works: 1) to erect a two storey extension

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251128

• 3 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage,

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230337

• 5 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new fully serviced dwelling house, domestic

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211718

• 5 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new fully serviced dwelling house,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211719

• 2 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for extension of existing dwelling house and extension of existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210288

• 19 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE I

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191687

• 7 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION FOR CONVERSION OF EXISTING SHEDS/OUTBUILDINGS TO RESIDENTIAL USE TO BO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181229

• 18 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR (A) RETENTION OF ENTRANCE HALL AND CHIMNEY ALTERATION TO EXISTIN

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161150

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: Blackstairs Mountains SAC 000770
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackstairs Mountains 000770

Recorded monuments

• WX009-011001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Located at the summit of Black Rock Mountain. There is a cairn (diam. 12m; H 0.7-2.6m) composed of large stones (dims. c. 1m x 0.5m x 0.35m) with no evidence of kerbing or other structures. It may have been erected to mark a boundary between townlands. Cairn (WX009-011002-) is immediately to the S. Cairn (WX009-012----) is c. 25m to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 5 April, 2012

• WX009-012 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated just off the summit of Black Rock Mountain. Th is is an oblong cairn (dims 18.5m NE-SW; 7.3m NW-SE; H 1.6-2m) composed of large granite boulders (dims c. 1.5m x 0.5m x 0.5m). It may have been erected to mark a boundary between townlands. The cairns (WX009-011001-, WX009-011002-) are c. 30m to the SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 5 April, 2012

• WX014-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as irregular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. Bank incorporated into field fence SE-W (diam. c. 30m). An entrance at S, probably modern, is now blocked. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 26 April, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rossard.

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 Rossard, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rossard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rossard · An Ros Ard

Area

3,647,278 m² (364.73 ha, 901.26 acres)

Civil parish

Templeshanbo, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Rossard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

524 people lived in 171 households in the Rossard electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacoola, Boladurragh, Cromoge, Gorteen, Kyle, Mandoran

Placenames

Rossard 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.