Roosky

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 128 m² to 260,113 m² (26.01 ha, 64.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

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.

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  GARDEN ROOM AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO DETACHED GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 99/5133 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561812

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  (1) SHEDS AND (2) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 03/5661 REFERS) AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 03/5661 REFERS), (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND (3) NEW ENTRANCE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561691

• 19 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW UNDERGROUND SLURRY RUN-OFF TANK AND (B) EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED TO PROVIDE COVER TO THE PROPOSED TANK AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351593

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  SLATTED SHED, EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251745

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) ADDITIONAL FOOTPRINT PROVIDED TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT SHED (2) A NEW ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD (3) THE CLOSURE OF AN EXISTING ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD (4) AN ENLARGED SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE PIPE DISCHARGING INTO THE EXISTING STREAM AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW SLATTED SHED, EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS INCLUDING THE LOCAL RAISING OF GROUND LEVEL TO TIE INTO THE EXISTING CONCRETE YARD (B) A NEW LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED TO THE EAST OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251448

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  A) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHEEP SHED WITH EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHEEP SHED WITH EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK, B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL COW MILKING PARLOUR WITH SLATTED HOLDING PEN AND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050922

• 30 Sept 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, ACCESS VIA AN EXISTING ACCESS LANE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951475

• 6 Aug 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ACCESS VIA AN EXISTING ACCESS LANE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951236

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751167

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roosky.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roosky.

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

At the centre of the townland of Roosky, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1984 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Roosky · Rúscaigh

Area

1,516,967 m² (151.7 ha, 374.85 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Fahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 546 households in the Fahan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahone, Carrontlieve, Carrowmullin, Gransha, Lisfannan, Luddan

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.