Roshin

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roshin, from 30 m² to 403,811 m² (40.38 ha, 99.78 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 Roshin 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.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660995

• 6 May 2026N/a

  (1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO ABOVEMENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING, TO INCLUDE THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ADJACENT WALLSTEAD, (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, (4) PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICLE ENTRANCE ACCESSING THE SITE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660811

• 9 Sept 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561546

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) PART SINGLE STOREY, PART STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING AND (B) SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (RELOCATION OF PROPOSED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED - PLANNING REG. REF. NO. 11/30264 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461706

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ADJACENT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350601

• 17 Apr 2023Conditional

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND GROUND LEVEL EXTENSIONS TO NORTHWEST & NORTHEAST OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350510

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED, INSTALL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150662

• 9 Feb 2018Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850191

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG025-026 Cairn - unclassified
  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

• House, 1800–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820 and altered/extended c.1900, having flat stone-roofed windbreak, single-bay addition to north and three-bay outbuildings attached to south. Now out of use/in use as outbuildings (house abandoned 1959). Pitched Roshin slate roof to house with limewashed rubble stone chimneystacks to north end of original house and to addition, and pitched corrugated-metal and Roshin slate roofs to outbuildings attached to south. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with thin schist sills and remains of three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways with remains of battened timber doors; some replacement timber doors to outbuildings to south. Set back from road in countryside south of Dunfanaghy, with flagstone paving to front. Remains of garden to front, with rose bushes. Series of single-bay outbuildings to south, with pitched Roshin slate roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with timber fittings. Detached gable-fronted single-bay outbuilding to south, built c.1935, having pitched Roshine slate roof with raised rendered verges to gables, rubble stone walls, and with square-headed doorway to east elevation having remains of timber fittings. Farmhouse across road to east, built 1959.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of three-bay single-storey vernacular houses, built c.1820, with windbreak entrances, having outbuildings to north and south. Now in use as outbuildings. Pitched Roshin slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, and having flat slate roofs to windbreaks. Limewashed and lime-rendered stone walls. Square-headed window and door openings with stone sills and remains of six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows, and timber battened doors. Windows to northern house enlarged, with raised smooth-render band and concrete sills. Outbuildings have pitched Roshin slate roofs, limewashed rubble stone walls and square-headed openings. Buildings set with back to and parallel with road. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north, with pitched Roshine slate roof and limewashed rubble stone walls.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, with windbreak entrance, having attached outbuildings to gables. Pitched Roshin slate roof, having three rendered chimneystacks with flat rendered copings; flat slate roof to windbreak. Painted and lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings, with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills, and with two replacement timber doors, one to windbreak and other to north end. Outbuilding to north stands slightly forward of line of house and has Roshin slate roof, limewashed rubble stone walls and square-headed timber battened door. Outbuilding attached to south gable of house set back from building line and has rubble stone walls, pitched corrugated-metal roof and recent vehicular doorway. Garden to front, bounded by low stone wall having square-plan piers and timber pedestrian gate.

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 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 Roshin.

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 Roshin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Roshin

Area

2,614,991 m² (261.5 ha, 646.18 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryreel, Greenhill, Kildarragh, Magheramenagh, Port

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Roshin 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.