Rossgarrow
Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 101.7 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 97
- registered freehold, median 748 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossgarrow, from 12 m² to 290,577 m² (29.06 ha, 71.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Rossgarrow 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
30 Jul 2024Conditional
EXISTING GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450191
14 Oct 2022Conditional
(1) INSTALLATION OF A TWO-STOREY MODULAR BUILDING CONTAINING 7 NO. CLASSROOMS, 3 NO. SET ROOMS AND ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION (2) A NEW SECTION OF FOOTPATH AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSING WITHIN THE SCHOOL GROUNDS (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM AND FOUL DRAINAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251729
4 Oct 2022Refused
ERECTION DWELLING HOUSE, INTEGRAL GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251654
14 Feb 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED (2) ERECTION OF EXTENSION ONTO GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250227
24 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISITNG DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250069
12 Feb 2020Conditional
(1) HARD SURFACING TO EXISTING STONE YARD TO CREATE ADDITIONAL CAR PARK SPACES INCLUDING MARKINGS INDICATING PARKING SPACES AND PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS, (2) INSTALLATION OF AN APPROVED OIL INTERCEPTOR (3) ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (4) RE-ARRANGEMENT OF EXISTING CAR PARK LAYOUT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050150
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossgarrow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rossgarrow.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Rossgarrow.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Rossgarrow.
- 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 Rossgarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Rossgarrow
- Area
- 1,016,844 m² (101.68 ha, 251.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullyfern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Millford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Millford electoral division: 1,633 people in 608 households; 72% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Rossgarrow 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.