# Roosky, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Rúscaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,572,616 m² (157.26 ha, 388.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,779 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Creeslough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Creeslough electoral division: 783 people in 329 households; 64% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14353 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52292 - Centre: latitude 55.097658, longitude -7.935118 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 379 m² to 482,970 m² (48.3 ha, 119.34 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1374147: 482,970 m² (48.3 ha, 119.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374147.md - Parcel 1372271: 124,191 m² (12.42 ha, 30.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372271.md - Parcel 1367586: 89,999 m² (9 ha, 22.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367586.md - Parcel 1523703: 80,826 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523703.md - Parcel 1310009: 70,929 m² (7.09 ha, 17.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310009.md - Parcel 1392261: 69,047 m² (6.9 ha, 17.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392261.md - Parcel 1380687: 64,858 m² (6.49 ha, 16.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380687.md - Parcel 1409054: 60,111 m² (6.01 ha, 14.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409054.md - Parcel 1341110: 49,667 m² (4.97 ha, 12.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341110.md - Parcel 1378810: 49,514 m² (4.95 ha, 12.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378810.md - Parcel 1417264: 48,386 m² (4.84 ha, 11.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417264.md - Parcel 1376797: 47,832 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376797.md - Parcel 1399234: 44,079 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399234.md - Parcel 1426875: 42,438 m² (4.24 ha, 10.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426875.md - Parcel 1402812: 32,337 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402812.md - Parcel 1332033: 21,331 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332033.md - Parcel 1332660: 21,110 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332660.md - Parcel 1424245: 18,891 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424245.md - Parcel 1387406: 18,768 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387406.md - Parcel 3663083: 17,079 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663083.md - Parcel 3663086: 14,262 m² (1.43 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663086.md - Parcel 1415521: 7,194 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415521.md - Parcel 1367388: 6,891 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367388.md - Parcel 5241857: 4,165 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241857.md - Parcel 1319312: 3,888 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319312.md - Parcel 1524692: 3,089 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524692.md - Parcel 1366105: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366105.md - Parcel 4858640: 2,404 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4858640.md - Parcel 5710334: 2,315 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5710334.md - Parcel 4869061: 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869061.md - Parcel 1387262: 2,192 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387262.md - Parcel 1317394: 2,117 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317394.md - Parcel 1316565: 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316565.md - Parcel 3663084: 2,067 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663084.md - Parcel 1415426: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415426.md - Parcel 1387338: 2,003 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387338.md - Parcel 4727462: 1,953 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4727462.md - Parcel 3663085: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663085.md - Parcel 3663080: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663080.md - Parcel 3663081: 1,523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663081.md - Parcel 1314836: 1,360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314836.md - Parcel 2739734: 1,352 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739734.md - Parcel 1523706: 1,259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523706.md - Parcel 1316952: 1,252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316952.md - Parcel 3663082: 1,216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663082.md - Parcel 3663087: 1,148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663087.md - Parcel 1323508: 985 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323508.md - Parcel 5241843: 931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241843.md - Parcel 1384840: 912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384840.md - Parcel 1335428: 713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335428.md - Parcel 1301738: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301738.md - Parcel 1419580: 379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419580.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 2 Sept 2026, Donegal County Council 2661629: N/a. Permission. CREATION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO ACCESS DWELLING INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661629/0 - 20 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660912: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660912/0 - 14 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560181: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560181/0 - 10 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350642: Conditional. Retention. EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350642/0 - 29 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2251125: N/a. Retention. DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251125/0 - 24 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150306: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150306/0 - 24 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050825: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT THIS SITE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050825/0 - 23 Jan 2019, Donegal County Council 1950071: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950071/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC, site code 002047, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002047 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park, site code 002047 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roosky. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roosky. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility high, 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, 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/donegal/roosky-52292.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roosky-52292.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roosky-52292.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyboe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyboe-50165.md - Craig: https://everytownland.com/donegal/craig-50755.md - Creenary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creenary.md - Garvary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/garvary-51282.md - Garvary Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/garvary-mountain.md - Glassan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glassan.md - Kilmackilloo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilmackilloo.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/donegal/roosky-52292 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/roosky-52292