Roosky

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 507 m² to 190,835 m² (19.08 ha, 47.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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.

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661036

• 7 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660582

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560135

• 4 Dec 2024N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461993

• 3 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461982

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461833

• 18 Dec 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ELECTRICITY OVERHEAD POWER LINE WITH ASSOCIATED POLES, MASTS, UNDERGROUND CABLING, SITE WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT, FOR A 38KV GRID CONNECTION TO LINK THE CONSENTED LETTERGULL WIND FARM, MOMEEN AND LETTERGULL TOWNLANDS, RAPHOE WITH THE EXISTING LETTERKENNY 110KV SUBSTATION IN LISTILLION TOWNLAND, LETTERKENNY. THE POWER LINE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 10.16 KILOMETRES LONG. ALL STRUCTURES RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM 12 METRES TO 19 METRES. THE MAJORITY OF THE OVERHEAD LINE STRUCTURES ARE WOODEN POLE SETS; INCLUDING 5 STEEL MAST STRUCTURES. THE ELECTRICITY POWER LINE WILL BE OVERHEAD EXCEPT FOR SHORT SECTIONS ALONG THE FOLLOWING ROAD SECTIONS; N13-8 LISTILLION TOWNLAND (TD.), L-5794-1 LISTILLION TD., L-5634-2 KINCRAIGY TD., L-5644-1 ROOSKEY TD. AND L-5664-1 ROOSKEY TD. WHERE IT IS TO BE LAID UNDERGROUND. THE PROPOSED POWER CABLE WILL TRAVERSE THE FOLLOWING TOWNLANDS (FROM SUBSTATION TO CONSENTED WIND FARM SITE); LISTILLION TD, LURGY TD, KNOCKBRACK TD, AGHLEHARD TD, TREANAVINNY TD, GLENMAQUIN LOWER TD (PART UNDERGROUND) KINCRAIGY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), ROOSKEY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), LISCLAMERTY TD, CARRICKNAMART TD, MONDOOEY UPPER TD, MONDOOEY MIDDLE TD, BALLYHOLEY FAR TD, DRUMATOLAND TD, SHESKINAPOLL TD, CARRICKADAWSON TD, WOODLAND TD AND MOMEEN TD (PART UNDERGROUND)

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051961

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950879

• 17 Oct 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751571

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND RELOCATION OF DWELLING FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 08/40447

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750481

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

• DG062-034 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG062-037 Battlefield
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge carrying road over small tributary of the Corkey River, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arch having roughly dressed voussoirs to arch; rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Coursed rubble stone construction to spandrels; rubble stone construction to parapets having rubble stone coping over. Side elevations (south-east and north-west) now very overgrown with vegetation. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham, adjacent to the site of former flax mill, now demolished.

• House, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding having attached single-bay two-storey former dwelling attached to the west end under same roofline, built c. 1830. Now out of use/in use as outbuilding. Pitched natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with one smooth rendered chimneystack to the east end of dwelling. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to former dwelling having smooth rendered surround, stone sills, and with remains of eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash window; window opening to upper floor now boarded. Segmental-headed openings to former outbuilding at ground floor level having battened timber doors; square-headed loading bay over having battened timber double-doors. Road-fronted in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham and to the north-west of Raphoe. Three-bay single-storey vernacular house located across road adjacent to the north, built c. 1830, having attached single-storey outbuildings to either side (east and west). Pitched corrugated-sheeted with smooth rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (east and west). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course and with smooth rendered margins. Square-headed openings with raised smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to the north elevation having smooth rendered surround, and with glazed battened timber door. Set in complex of vernacular and modern structures and approached by laneway from north-west and south-east. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to the south-west of complex having pitched corrugated-metal roof and square-headed openings with timber fittings.

• House, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1790, having attached single-storey outbuildings attached to either gable end (north-east and south-west). Possibly originally a single-storey structure with upper floor added, c. 1880. Pitched corrugated-sheeted roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth rendered parallel block quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and timber casement windows to over at first floor level. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (north-west) having battened timber entrance door. Attached single-storey outbuildings to either side having pitched corrugated-metal roofs, limewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with replacement fittings, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Set with back to road and approached by private laneway from the north-east with mature trees to north and lawned area to south. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham, and to the north-west of Raphoe.

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 10 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.

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. Donegal.

Name

Roosky · Rúscaigh

Area

2,428,497 m² (242.85 ha, 600.09 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Kincraigy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kincraigy electoral division: 1,036 people in 337 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenmaquin Lower, Kincraigy, Lisclamerty, Mongorry, Mullafin, Tully

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.