Rockbog

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockbog, from 5,253 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres) to 276,541 m² (27.65 ha, 68.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rockbog 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.

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  demolish the existing 2m2 front porch and 40m2 substandard rear extension along with all outbuildings totaling 84m2 and erect 81m2 new single storey extensions to the rear and side of the existing 45m2 cottage along with minor alterations and revisions to the elevations and internal layout of the original cottage and erect an 84m2 garage, upgrade the existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, improve the existing vehicle entrance along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20667

• 18 Jun 2018Conditional

  extensions to dining room and play room, revision to window on West Elevation. Upgrade and replacement of existing roof, retention permission is also sought for garage/garden store all with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18663

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 Rockbog.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockbog.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rockbog, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3329 (ZIP).

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 Rockbog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Rockbog

Area

352,461 m² (35.25 ha, 87.1 acres)

Civil parish

Arklow, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bogland, Cooladangan, Hollyfort (Co. Wexford), Kish, Springfield, Whitepark (Co. Wexford)

Placenames

Rockbog 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.