Roosky
Townland in the civil parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Rúscaigh
- Area
- 89.9 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 595 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 293 m² to 95,171 m² (9.52 ha, 23.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5Rural Transition (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Jun 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a new residential dwelling house together with a carport, a garden shed, new entrance/ gates, new boundary treatments, connection to public sewerage system and all other ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560371
25 Oct 2024Refused
The development will consist of: The construction of a new residential dwelling house together with a carport, a garden shed, new entrance/ gates, new boundary treatments, connection to public sewerage system and all other ancillary site works and services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460660
5 Apr 2024Conditional
construction of a new residential dwelling house and shed, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2496
4 Jan 2021Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND AS SHOWN ON PLANS, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 214
9 Nov 2020N/a
RETENTION FOR DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 20851
28 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20700
17 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20665
4 Sept 2020N/a
CONSTRUCT NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO SITE SERVICES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20630
18 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND CONNECT TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19825
13 Aug 2019Conditional
NEW EQUESTRIAN TRAINING CENTRE INCLUDING INDOOR HORSE ARENA AND STABLES AS WELL AS ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, ASSOCIATED OUT BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES, EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19626
21 Dec 2018Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 181047
21 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17672
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roosky.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roosky.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roosky.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roosky.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Roosky · Rúscaigh
- Area
- 899,073 m² (89.91 ha, 222.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crossboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Claremorris, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Claremorris electoral division: 4,740 people in 1,786 households; 57% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowmarley, Carrowmore, Carrowsteelaun, Mayfield, Rooskybeg
- Placenames
- Roosky 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.