Rossana Upper

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossana Upper, from 142 m² to 167,131 m² (16.71 ha, 41.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Ashford Town Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.6Public Utility (Other transport/general uses)
  Ashford Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Nov 2024Unconditional

  Part 8 for a strategic Park & Ride facility located to the west of M11 Junction 16 at Rosanna Upper in the village of Ashford. The proposed development comprises a car park with a capacity of 210 parking spaces, including 13 spaces for mobility impaired users and 21 spaces for charging of electric vehicles. The project includes the construction of a new bus area that consists of two bus bays, two passenger shelters, and a designated turning circle. A new all-movement junction is proposed at Fassaroe Lane, incorporating a dedicated lane for right-turning traffic. The development also plans to incorporate paved areas for bike shelters and lockers, facilitating connections for active travel and ancillary works (for submission details please see the development site notice)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24447

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  a 41m² rear extension and a 3m² front porch to a dwelling and the upgrade of the effluent treatment system to current EPA standards, together with associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24420

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  a 41m²rear extension and a 3m² front porch to a dwelling and the upgrade of the effluent treatment system to current EPA standards, together with associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23564

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20611

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  fully serviced dwelling house with detached domestic garage, on site sewage treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works and connection to public mains water

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18619

• 6 Jun 2017Refused

  dormer style dwelling, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards along with associated site development works and services including a driveway, provision of a shared entrance which will include upgrading of existing entrance to family home

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17663

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 Rossana Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI025-007 Mound
  Description

  Circular steep sided mound (diam. 21m, H. 3.70m) with level summit (diam. 6.8m). Level ground overlooking gentle NE slope to stream. Barrow (WI025-036----) 120m SW. Date of upload: 20 October 2012

• WI025-036 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on level ground 120m SW of a tumulus (WI025-007----). Level circular area (diam. 11.5m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.7-1.9m; D 0.2m). 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: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Rossana House, country house, 1710–1730 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c.1720. The house is constructed in Flemish bond red brick. Part of the dwelling was demolished in c.1950. To the rear (west) there are two, three-storey projecting bays one canted and one bowed. To the east front a replacement timber door surround has paired pilasters and a broken base pediment; it surrounds a part glazed panelled door which is set within a semi-circular headed opening. Window openings have a mixture of semi-circular arched and flat-heads; all have timber sash windows which include six over six and three over three. The double-piled pitched roof is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. The chimneystacks are rendered and have tall diagonally set flues with clay pots. The house is set within a well wooded demesne.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3371 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rossana Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Rossana Upper

Area

395,362 m² (39.54 ha, 97.7 acres)

Civil parish

Rathnew, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Glenealy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenealy electoral division: 2,861 people in 1,004 households; 76% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashford, Ballinalea, Milltown North, Mountusher, Rossana Lower

Placenames

Rossana Upper 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.