Roosky

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 363 m² to 394,137 m² (39.41 ha, 97.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 62 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission for the Retention of detached single storey domestic garage/tool shed also retention of single storey kitchen/dining room and sunroom extensions to the rear of this single storey detached dwelling house and associated works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 211995

• 23 Jul 2021N/a

  permission for the Retention of detached single storey domestic garage/tool shed also retention of single storey kitchen/dining room and sunroom extension to the rear of this single storey detached dwelling house and associated works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 211408

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 Roosky.

Recorded monuments

• ME003-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the NW end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 38.5m NW-SE; 29.5m ENE-WSW) defined by a slight grass-covered earthen bank (at SSE: Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m: at NNW: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m). There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is probably the gap (Wth of base 2.2m) at NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 August 2018 Amended: 14 December 2022

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).

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.

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.

No address of the register names Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Roosky

Area

1,021,784 m² (102.18 ha, 252.49 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcondra, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Drumcondra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcondra electoral division: 1,376 people in 491 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacolgan, Breslanstown, Drumbride, Largy, Mullaghmore, Newstone

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.