# Rockbog, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 352,461 m² (35.25 ha, 87.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,516 m² (3.35 ha, 8.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Arklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/arklow.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55177 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251190 - Centre: latitude 52.769747, longitude -6.176643 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1277055: 276,541 m² (27.65 ha, 68.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277055.md - Parcel 1265383: 46,859 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265383.md - Parcel 1285570: 20,173 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285570.md - Parcel 1294816: 5,253 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294816.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 14 Jul 2020, Wicklow County Council 20667: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20667/0 - 18 Jun 2018, Wicklow County Council 18663: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18663/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockbog. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockbog. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rockbog. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3329.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockbog.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockbog.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockbog.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rockbog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bogland: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bogland.md - Cooladangan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cooladangan.md - Hollyfort (Co. Wexford): https://everytownland.com/wexford/hollyfort-241327.md - Kish: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kish.md - Springfield: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/springfield-251258.md - Whitepark (Co. Wexford): https://everytownland.com/wexford/whitepark.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockbog - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/rockbog