# Roo, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacduagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish An Rú.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,427,802 m² (342.78 ha, 847.03 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,285 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmacduagh, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilmacduagh.md
- Barony: Kiltartan
- Electoral division: Killinny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19446
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63722
- Centre: latitude 53.074914, longitude -8.914087 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roo, from 56 m² to 1,294,124 m² (129.41 ha, 319.79 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1959940: 1,294,124 m² (129.41 ha, 319.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959940.md
- Parcel 5945192: 730,056 m² (73.01 ha, 180.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5945192.md
- Parcel 1990847: 443,619 m² (44.36 ha, 109.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990847.md
- Parcel 1990848: 87,278 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990848.md
- Parcel 6171638: 80,747 m² (8.07 ha, 19.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6171638.md
- Parcel 6171635: 69,624 m² (6.96 ha, 17.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6171635.md
- Parcel 1990844: 64,481 m² (6.45 ha, 15.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990844.md
- Parcel 5708292: 59,935 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5708292.md
- Parcel 1959847: 48,507 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959847.md
- Parcel 1959842: 47,473 m² (4.75 ha, 11.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959842.md
- Parcel 1959851: 31,520 m² (3.15 ha, 7.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959851.md
- Parcel 1990853: 31,010 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990853.md
- Parcel 6211868: 29,715 m² (2.97 ha, 7.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6211868.md
- Parcel 1959841: 20,114 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959841.md
- Parcel 1959944: 19,758 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959944.md
- Parcel 1990846: 18,807 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990846.md
- Parcel 1990957: 16,804 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990957.md
- Parcel 1990854: 16,602 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990854.md
- Parcel 1959946: 15,961 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959946.md
- Parcel 2112969: 15,270 m² (1.53 ha, 3.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112969.md
- Parcel 1990845: 14,566 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990845.md
- Parcel 1990855: 14,306 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990855.md
- Parcel 1959845: 12,956 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959845.md
- Parcel 1990952: 12,021 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990952.md
- Parcel 1959854: 11,985 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959854.md
- Parcel 1959949: 11,812 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959949.md
- Parcel 1959860: 11,437 m² (1.14 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959860.md
- Parcel 1959858: 10,331 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959858.md
- Parcel 1990950: 9,893 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990950.md
- Parcel 6169573: 9,729 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6169573.md
- Parcel 1959941: 9,609 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959941.md
- Parcel 1959852: 7,908 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959852.md
- Parcel 1990949: 7,706 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990949.md
- Parcel 1959855: 7,076 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959855.md
- Parcel 1959853: 6,820 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959853.md
- Parcel 1959945: 6,759 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959945.md
- Parcel 1990857: 6,646 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990857.md
- Parcel 1959843: 6,620 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959843.md
- Parcel 1959846: 6,411 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959846.md
- Parcel 1959937: 6,158 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959937.md
- Parcel 1959938: 5,986 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959938.md
- Parcel 1959844: 5,748 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959844.md
- Parcel 1990951: 5,683 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990951.md
- Parcel 1990843: 5,190 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990843.md
- Parcel 5174515: 4,759 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174515.md
- Parcel 4820789: 4,685 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4820789.md
- Parcel 1990953: 4,675 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990953.md
- Parcel 1959857: 4,352 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959857.md
- Parcel 1990859: 4,216 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990859.md
- Parcel 1990852: 3,871 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990852.md
- Parcel 5073844: 3,712 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5073844.md
- Parcel 1990856: 3,696 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990856.md
- Parcel 1959939: 3,353 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959939.md
- Parcel 1959947: 3,329 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959947.md
- Parcel 1959948: 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959948.md
- Parcel 1990851: 2,814 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990851.md
- Parcel 1959943: 2,752 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959943.md
- Parcel 4641461: 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641461.md
- Parcel 1959850: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959850.md
- Parcel 5174577: 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174577.md
- Parcel 1990858: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990858.md
- Parcel 4641448: 2,018 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641448.md
- Parcel 1959856: 1,420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959856.md
- Parcel 5277827: 1,344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5277827.md
- Parcel 5708279: 1,274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5708279.md
- Parcel 5278869: 1,009 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278869.md
- Parcel 1959849: 875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959849.md
- Parcel 1959859: 869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959859.md
- Parcel 1990956: 755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990956.md
- Parcel 5174586: 726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174586.md
- Parcel 1990849: 692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990849.md
- Parcel 1990954: 657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990954.md
- Parcel 1990850: 650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990850.md
- Parcel 1959942: 626 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959942.md
- Parcel 1990955: 371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990955.md
- Parcel 5277826: 138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5277826.md
- Parcel 1959848: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959848.md
- Parcel 5174584: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174584.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 23 Jan 2026, Galway County Council 2615: Conditional. Permission. to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with calf creep and roofed feed passage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2615/0
- 7 Nov 2025, Galway County Council 25306: N/a. Permission. to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with calf creep and roofed feed passage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25306/0
- 10 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 25275: N/a. Permission. to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with calf creep and roofed feed passage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25275/0
- 21 May 2020, Galway County Council 20620: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for Extension to dwelling house, new waste water treatment/percolation, and all services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 139.8 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20620/0
- 27 May 2019, Galway County Council 19804: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19804/0
- 31 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 181085: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for development for construction of a slatted unit and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 259.82 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181085/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC, site code 001926, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex, site code 001926

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA122-125: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA122-125----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA122-126----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA122-127----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA122-146001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA122-146002-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_631.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/roo-63722.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/roo-63722.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/roo-63722.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Roo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballymulfaig: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymulfaig.md
- Ballyvoher: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyvoher.md
- Cappacasheen: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappacasheen.md
- Cloonselherny (Co. Clare): https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonselherny.md
- Gortnasteal: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnasteal.md
- Killinny East: https://everytownland.com/galway/killinny-east.md
- Killinny West: https://everytownland.com/galway/killinny-west.md
- Poulataggle (Co. Clare): https://everytownland.com/clare/poulataggle.md
- Rockpark: https://everytownland.com/galway/rockpark.md
- Shigaunagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/shigaunagh.md
- Tulla (Co. Clare): https://everytownland.com/clare/tulla-32250.md
- Turavaghla: https://everytownland.com/galway/turavaghla.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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