Rosahane
Rosahane is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinacor, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 194.2 ha
- 480 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 115,454 m² (11.55 ha, 28.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosahane, from 4,173 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) to 274,563 m² (27.46 ha, 67.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rosahane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Rosahane in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rosahane.
Recorded monuments
- WI034-008001 Graveyard
Description
An oval shaped graveyard with some eighteenth-century headstones, the earliest noted dates to 1752. It was still in occasional use when inspected by ASI in 1990. A sub-rectangular font (WI034-008003-) with a slot opening on one side was recorded by Price (1959, 175) here, however it was not located when inspected in 1990 and was reported to have been moved to another graveyard. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 26 July 2013
- WI034-008002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
On level ground in forestry. A sub-oval enclosure (map dims. 74m E-W, 76m N-S) defined by a rubble bank (max. Wth 4m, max. H 1-1.5m) of large slabs and blocks with drystone facing on N side. The possible original entrance (Wth 2.5m) is on the SE side; modern access is through an extension on the SE side. The remains of the church (WI034-008004-) are on the SW side Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 26 July 2013
- WI034-008003 Font
Description
Price (1959, 175) recorded a sub-rectangular font with a slot opening on one side, at Rosahane, however it was not located when inspected in 1990 and was reported to have been moved to another graveyard. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 26 July 2013
- WI034-008004 Church
Description
Situated on level ground in forestry. All that remains of the church is a subrectangular area of rubble (dims. 23m E-W; 14m N-S) with a gap representing an entrance at the S. An open area in the centre (dims. c. 10m E-W; 5.4m N-S) may represent the church interior. Situated S of the centre of an oval enclosure (dims. c. 70m NW-SE; 60m NE-SW) defined by a rubble bank (Wth 4m; H 1-1.5m) of large slabs and blocks with drystone facing on the N side. The original entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at the SE and modern access is through an extension also at the SE. A field drain (Wth 2m) runs outside the bank at the SW. The graveyard has some eighteenth-century headstones and is still in occasional use. A subrectangular font (WI034-008003-) with a slot opening on one side (Price 1959, 175) has been removed from the graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 26 July 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rosahane.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rosahane, 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 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 Rosahane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rosahane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Rosahane
- Area
- 1,941,655 m² (194.17 ha, 479.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinacor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Ballinacor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 369 people lived in 119 households in the Ballinacor electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagappoge, Ballycreen Upper, Ballycurragh, Ballyteige, Coolballintaggart, Coolgarrow, Sheeana More
- Placenames
- Rosahane 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.