Roonah

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roonah, from 36 m² to 770,702 m² (77.07 ha, 190.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Roonah 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.

• 22 Jul 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: Carrowniskey beach horse racing which is a one day event

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25285

• 21 Mar 2024Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary effluent treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2473

• 24 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22925

• 29 Apr 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22333

• 30 Aug 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21919

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18544

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: Lough Cahasy, Lough Baun and Roonah Lough SAC 001529
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cahasy, Lough Baun And Roonah Lough 001529

Recorded monuments

• MA095-003 Bridge
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA095-030 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Foot bridge, 1863–1878 · Regional interest
  Description

  Thirty-seven-span "clapper bridge" or footbridge over river, extant 1878, on a cranked L-shaped plan. Sited spanning Bunleemshough River.

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 Roonah, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Roonah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Roonah · Ruanaid

Area

3,464,246 m² (346.42 ha, 856.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Aillemore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

367 people lived in 151 households in the Aillemore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownisky, Cloonlaur, Cross, Feenune

Placenames

Roonah 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.