Rosmuck

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosmuck, from 218 m² to 156,152 m² (15.62 ha, 38.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rosmuck 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.

• 27 Apr 2026Conditional

  for; 1) new vehicular access and egress arrangement, 2) replace new windows to front elevation, 3) install new roof window to rear elevation, and all associated site works and services; to existing dwelling (Original Grant of permission Ref 08/1985)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660640

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  chun teach cónaithe , córas séarachais, garáiste agus gach obair láithreáin ag teastail a thógáil. Tá ráiteas tionchair natura faoi bhráid leis an t-Iarratas. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 285 sqm (H), 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24227

• 13 Aug 2018Conditional

  chun teach cónaithe, córas séarachais agus garáiste priomháideach a thógáil. Gross floor space of proposed works dwelling 215sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181144

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: Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC 002111
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rosmuck.

Architectural heritage

• Séipéal an Ioncollaithe [Catholic Church of the Transfiguration], church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1844, with four-bay double-height nave, transepts to north and south having central tower addition over transept crossing, and further additions to east and west elevations including porch to west. Pitched artificial slate roofs with flat and single-pitched roofs to later additions, concrete copings to gables with dressed stone bellcote, carved copings and cruciform finial to west gable, rendered plinth and cruciform finial to east, metal finial over central tower and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered plinth, iron vents below eaves course, badly weathered carved limestone plaque to western gable of recent porch gives date of 1844. Pointed arch-headed window openings with raised render surrounds and stone sills with lead-lined stained-glass windows behind recent protective casement windows. Tri- and bipartite window openings to transepts and chancel having raised render surrounds, stone sills and lead-lined stained-glass windows with recent timber casement windows over. Pointed and square-headed door openings with raised rendered surrounds, timber glazed side-panels and replacement timber and timber glazed doors. Dressed limestone voussoirs to nave windows and original entrance to interior of western gable having carved limestone stoups to nave and north transept entrances, pecked and tooled limestone double basin font in recent porch. Situated on high ground overlooking bay with enclosing rectangular granite dry-stone wall and mature trees to west of structure.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rosmuck, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rosmuck.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rosmuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rosmuck · Ros Muc

Area

2,107,545 m² (210.75 ha, 520.79 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Turlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

555 people lived in 222 households in the Turlough electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garrivinnagh, Turloughbeg

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Rosmuck 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.