Roos

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roos, from 1,984 m² to 205,008 m² (20.5 ha, 50.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Roos 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Roos in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roos.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled. However, the outline of its perimeter, marked by a low scarp, may still be traced enclosing a roughly circular area (c. 30m E-W; c. 28m N-S). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 49.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.6m; H 0.2-0.9m). There is no trace of a fosse. A wide modern entrance at ENE may mark the location of the original one. From SSW-W-N the circuit and morphology of the bank have been altered where it has been incorporated into a field boundary. Much of the interior has recently been dug up. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Roos with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Roos · An Rú

Area

1,010,600 m² (101.06 ha, 249.72 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Drummeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drummeel electoral division: 129 people in 51 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Ballynascraw, Breaghy, Cartroncar, Laughil (Adair), Lisduff

Placenames

Roos 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.