# Roosk, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghadoe, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 722,903 m² (72.29 ha, 178.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 66,657 m² (6.67 ha, 16.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghadoe, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/taghadoe.md - Barony: Salt North - Electoral division: Straffan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,513 people lived in 758 households in the Straffan electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25468 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81075 - Centre: latitude 53.338787, longitude -6.622578 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosk, from 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) to 585,698 m² (58.57 ha, 144.73 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1057510: 585,698 m² (58.57 ha, 144.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057510.md - Parcel 1089718: 87,930 m² (8.79 ha, 21.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089718.md - Parcel 1015362: 45,385 m² (4.54 ha, 11.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015362.md - Parcel 5787016: 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5787016.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Roosk 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 28 Mar 2025, Kildare County Council 2560326: Refused. Permission. for the construction of a solar PV development and an ‘under the fence’ transformer compound on a ca. 180ha site consisting of: I. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site; II. 39 No. inverter units (ca. 2.9m (h) x ca. 6.1m (l) and 2.4(w)); III. 1 No. control room structure (5m (h) x 15.3m (l) and 3.7m (w)); IV. 1 No. transformer unit (ca. 6m x ca. 4m) and associated bund; V. Security fencing around the ‘under the fence’ transformer compound (2.65m high); VI. Electrical and communications cabling; VII. Pole-mounted security cameras; VIII. Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; IX. Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; X. Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; XI. 3 No. temporary construction compounds; XII. Internal access tracks; and, XIII All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560326/0 - 3 Feb 2021, Kildare County Council 21114: Conditional. Permission. sought to amend the design of the approved development (Kildare County Council Planning Reg Ref 17/535) which comprises consent for the development of a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of the following: up to 74,172 m² of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames within a site area of 25.04 hectares; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 No. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment; 7 No. inverter/transformer units; underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works; a new entrance to the public road will be used for construction purposes, the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for operational purposes. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. Amendments proposed in this planning application are: Optimised Solar PV panel configuration with an increase in the solar panel area from the permitted up to 74,180 m² of solar panels to up to 150,000 m² of solar panels and increase in height of solar panel array from the permitted up to 2.8m to up to 3.2m. The panel area will be primarily located within the same areas of the site as previously permitted with the exception of a decreased buffer distance under the existing 220kV overhead electricity line from approximately 60m as permitted to approximately 36m; decreased buffer distance around the existing 3 No. 220kV pylons from approximately 60m as permitted to approximately 46m; Modifications and enlargement to the permitted on-site substation building and substation compound are also proposed. The substation building will increase in size from c. 80 m² as permitted to c. 150 m² with an increase in height from c. 5.8m as permitted to c. 6.0m and the substation compound will increase in size from c. 700 m² as permitted to c. 1081 m²; Omission of 2 No. inverter/transformer hardstanding areas and minor changes of position of hardstanding from the permitted solar development to allow for a total of 5 hardstanding areas which will provide the base for 12 No. inverter and transformer units housed in sound suppression containers. 2 No. CCTV cameras have also been omitted from the permitted development to allow a total of 5 No. CCTV cameras; Modifications, reduction and realignment of the internal access tracks resulting in the reduction of access tracks from c. 2,130m as permitted to c. 1,650m as now proposed;. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21114/0 - 11 May 2017, Kildare County Council 17535: Conditional. Permission. development of a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of the following: up to 74,172sqm of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames within a site area of 25.04 hectares; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 No. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment; 7 No. inverter/transformer units; underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works; a new entrance to the public road will be used for construction purposes, the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for operational purposes. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. This site is located within the townlands. Revised by significant further information consisting of; changes to layout which include the following: a new sit entrance to the public road and a new agricultural access; omission of the previously proposed two no. entrances to the proposed site; provision of a temporary construction car park; additional landscape measures; amendments to statutory redline boundary to accommodate the new site entrance to the public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17535/0 - 24 Apr 2017, Kildare County Council 17464: N/a. Permission. Solar photivataic panel array consisting of the following: up to 74. 172m2 of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 no. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment: 7 no inverter/transformer units: underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works; a new entrance to the public road will be used for construction purposes the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for operational purposes. Planning Permission is sought for a period of 10 years.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17464/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roosk. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD010-028: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-028----. On level pasture, formerly in tillage. Visible on aerial photographs (GSI N 468, 469) as the very faint cropmark of a fosse enclosing a large, circular area (est. diam. c. 120m). Not visible at ground. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD010-073: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-073----. Cropmark of circular-shaped ring-ditch (approx. diam. 8m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 11 September 2019 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 Roosk. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Roosk, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2799, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2799.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/kildare/roosk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/roosk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/roosk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Roosk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bryanstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bryanstown.md - Johninstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/johninstown.md - Newtownmacabe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtownmacabe.md - Smithstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/smithstown.md - Taghadoe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/taghadoe.md - Windgates: https://everytownland.com/kildare/windgates.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/roosk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/roosk