Roo

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roo, from 56 m² to 1,294,124 m² (129.41 ha, 319.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Roo 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.

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with calf creep and roofed feed passage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2615

• 7 Nov 2025N/a

  to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with calf creep and roofed feed passage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25306

• 10 Oct 2025N/a

  to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with calf creep and roofed feed passage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25275

• 21 May 2020Conditional

  for Extension to dwelling house, new waste water treatment/percolation, and all services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 139.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20620

• 27 May 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 183 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19804

• 31 Jul 2018Conditional

  for development for construction of a slatted unit and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 259.82 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181085

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• GA122-125 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the crest of a rise in pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 30m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall (base Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.85m). A field wall cuts across the monument at WSW and SSE. Two hollows in the interior appear to be the result of quarrying. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2018

• GA122-126 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In level farmland. This subcircular enclosure (c. 74m E-W; c. 70m N-Sm), in fair condition, is defined by a bank of earth and stone from S through W to NE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap at S may be original. Hawthorn bushes are growing on the outer slopes of the bank and along the scarp. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 June 2019

• GA122-127 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In flat pastureland. This roughly subcircular children's burial ground (16m WNW-ESE) is bisected by a WNW-ESE running field boundary. To the N of the field boundary, apart from one/two grave-markers, no visible surface trace survives. To the S its W limits are defined by another field wall running roughly N-S. This section is overgrown with trees and the SSE sector was impenetrable due to thick overgrowth. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA122-146001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On exposed limestone pavement with rough grazing land to the SE and SW. An almost square enclosure (c. 53m NW-SE; c. 52m NE-SW), defined by a stone wall, is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dating from March 2015. A possible structure (GA122-146002-), roughly rectangular in plan (c. 8m WNW-ESE; c. 5m NNE-SSW), is visible in the S half of the interior. Possible internal divisions or later animal pens are visible in the NW and SE angles. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Possibly a cashel or moher (see FitzPatrick 2009, 284). The following image has been uploaded: GA122-146001-_01.jpg Google Earth image (April 2021) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 July 2022

• GA122-146002 Structure
  Description

  Within the S half of a possible cashel (GA122-146001-). A stone-built rectangular structure (c. 8m WNW-ESE; c. 5m NE-SW) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dating from March 2015. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA108-246002-_01.jpg Google Earth image (April 2021) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_631 (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.

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

Name

Roo · An Rú

Area

3,427,802 m² (342.78 ha, 847.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Killinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymulfaig, Ballyvoher, Cappacasheen, Cloonselherny (Co. Clare), Gortnasteal, Killinny East, Killinny West, Poulataggle (Co. Clare), Rockpark, Shigaunagh, Tulla (Co. Clare), Turavaghla

Placenames

Roo 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.