Roosky Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish Rúscaigh Íochtarach
- Area
- 54.9 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 5,355 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky Lower, from 125 m² to 110,894 m² (11.09 ha, 27.4 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roosky Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) TEMPORARY RETENTION OF MOBILE HOME, ACCESS & GRAVEL AREA WITH CONNECTION TO THE SEPTIC TANK OF ADJACENT PROPERTY AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151687
5 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN SIDED GARAGE/STORE & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150169
26 Nov 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF AGRICULTURAL SHED TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 18/50806 TO DRY BED CATTLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951834
19 Dec 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE BUILDING FOR THE STORAGE OF RECYCLED PRODUCTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXISTING RECYCLING AND COURIER/HAULAGE BUSINESS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851919
22 May 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850806
4 May 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850707
9 Aug 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751248
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roosky Lower.
Recorded monuments
- DG069-032 Standing stone
Description
There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on level, good land with extensive views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roosky Lower.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1814 (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 Roosky Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Roosky Lower · Rúscaigh Íochtarach
- Area
- 548,756 m² (54.88 ha, 135.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raphoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Castlefinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlefinn electoral division: 1,252 people in 488 households; 67% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackrepentance, Carnowen, Carrickbrack, Carrickbrack, Magherahee, Roosky Upper
- Placenames
- Roosky Lower 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.