Roscat
Townland in the civil parish of Ardristan, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Ros Cath
- Area
- 288.9 ha
- 714 acres
- Land parcels
- 96
- registered freehold, median 4,665 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- Enterprise and Employment
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roscat, from 69 m² to 268,360 m² (26.84 ha, 66.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 3 Tullow District Town Plan 2026, Carlow · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 3 Tullow District Town Plan 2026, Carlow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 3 Tullow District Town Plan 2026, Carlow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 3 Tullow District Town Plan 2026, Carlow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community / Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 3 Tullow District Town Plan 2026, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jul 2026Conditional
construction of a part single storey & part dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with associated percolation area, bored well, shared access through neighbouring existing domestic entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2660209
3 Nov 2025Conditional
the erection of a dwelling house, garage/store, installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560339
22 Oct 2025N/a
construct a dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with associated percolation area, bored well, domestic entrance and all ancillary site works and landscaping
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560321
8 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction, of a detached single storey, Storage and Maintenance Industrial Unit 562m2 with tool store, WC and canteen together with all associated site works and connection to services
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22293
2 Jun 2022Conditional
for 3 wooden storage shed used for domestic storage, 1 boiler room and stick storage shed attached to existing dwelling and associate works
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 22180
29 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a Weighbridge, Administration Building to include Canteen and Toilets, waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22143
10 Dec 2021N/a
for the construction of a commercial shed to be used for drop off, separation and collection of recyclable materials i.e. cardboard, plastic and pallets, a new entrance, parking and a hard standing area, connection to services and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21492
21 Oct 2021Conditional
Permission is sought for new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21403
5 Oct 2021N/a
New private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, new entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21376
31 Aug 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of the construction of a new entrance to the existing dwelling and the removal of the roadside hedgerow to facilitate a new post and rail fence
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21327
31 Aug 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of the erection of a three bedroom bungalow, garage, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and all ancillary works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21328
27 Nov 2020Conditional
Development consisting of the erection of an aggregate wash plant, settlement lagoons and all associated ancillary facilities within an existing sand and gravel pit
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20423
10 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission to demolish part of dwellinghouse and permission to construct extension to side and rear of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20274
17 Apr 2020Conditional
(a) use of existing right-turning lane and entrance point for access purposes (as previously developed pursuant to permission reference 07544). (b) Provision of a proposed new two storey creche and montessori child-care facility. (c) Provision of associated site works to include hard and soft landscape works to include for pedestrian footpath connections and associated car parking. (d) Provision of associated site works to facilitate site drainage along with connection to the existing foul and public water networks.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20130
12 Jul 2019Refused
a new two storey creche and montessori child care facility (area 240 sqm) with connection to existing mains services and associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19277
21 Jan 2019Conditional
demolition of existing derelict house, construction of a new single storey dwelling house, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1913
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardristan Fen 000788
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roscat.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roscat.
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
- About 1 in 10 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_2661 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roscat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Roscat · Ros Cath
- Area
- 2,888,618 m² (288.86 ha, 713.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardristan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Tullowbeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tullowbeg electoral division: 618 people in 198 households; 86% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardristan, Castlemore, Inchisland or Moatalusha, Rathtoe, Tullowbeg
- Placenames
- Roscat 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.