Roosky

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 210 m² to 153,203 m² (15.32 ha, 37.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Roosky 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.

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  for development of a glamping site comprising 4 No. glamping pods, ancillary single storey service building, redevelopment of existing traditional stone building to an equipment/bicycle store, internal paths, car parking area, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance/exit onto public road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21701

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 Roosky.

Recorded monuments

• CV023-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 28.6m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, waterlogged fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1977) noted the remains of a low outer bank from S-W-NW. From NNW-N-NE fosse has been deepened and widened and is now used as a watering- hole for cattle. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Corraneary Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Presbyterian church, built 1791, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch (east). Reroofed, 1848. Renovated. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Lancet window openings with sills, and rendered surrounds framing replacement uPVC fittings replacing timber fittings having stained glass margins. Camber-headed window opening (west) with sill, and rendered surround framing replacement uPVC fitting replacing timber fitting having stained glass margins. Interior including vestibule (east); square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with timber panelled gallery (east) on paired pillars, central aisle between timber pews, Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit (west) on an octagonal plan, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set back from road with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roosky.

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 Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Roosky

Area

813,540 m² (81.35 ha, 201.03 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Corraneary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corraneary electoral division: 448 people in 169 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappog, Corraneary, Drumbinnis, Lisdonan, Pottle

Placenames

Roosky 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.