# Roosky, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumcondra, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,021,784 m² (102.18 ha, 252.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,835 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumcondra, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/drumcondra.md - Barony: Slane Lower - Electoral division: Drumcondra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,376 people lived in 491 households in the Drumcondra electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37628 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161436 - Centre: latitude 53.878206, longitude -6.690723 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 363 m² to 394,137 m² (39.41 ha, 97.39 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 162735: 394,137 m² (39.41 ha, 97.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/162735.md - Parcel 4917261: 221,956 m² (22.2 ha, 54.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4917261.md - Parcel 145971: 89,772 m² (8.98 ha, 22.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145971.md - Parcel 158142: 67,403 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/158142.md - Parcel 4896265: 56,869 m² (5.69 ha, 14.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4896265.md - Parcel 5977285: 42,488 m² (4.25 ha, 10.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5977285.md - Parcel 5061399: 35,607 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5061399.md - Parcel 4896249: 34,118 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4896249.md - Parcel 5114030: 28,511 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5114030.md - Parcel 141534: 6,174 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/141534.md - Parcel 168696: 4,971 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/168696.md - Parcel 2582330: 4,610 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2582330.md - Parcel 2726324: 3,380 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726324.md - Parcel 172002: 2,914 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/172002.md - Parcel 149349: 2,884 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149349.md - Parcel 212530: 2,835 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/212530.md - Parcel 148209: 2,684 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148209.md - Parcel 207153: 2,452 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/207153.md - Parcel 160596: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160596.md - Parcel 199259: 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/199259.md - Parcel 168584: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/168584.md - Parcel 145356: 2,061 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145356.md - Parcel 172157: 2,047 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/172157.md - Parcel 153997: 1,681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/153997.md - Parcel 194000: 1,618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/194000.md - Parcel 4896327: 1,151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4896327.md - Parcel 194522: 985 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/194522.md - Parcel 215144: 845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/215144.md - Parcel 4917271: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4917271.md - Parcel 6051028: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6051028.md - Parcel 135469: 363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/135469.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 62 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 14 Oct 2021, Meath County Council 211995: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211995/0 - 23 Jul 2021, Meath County Council 211408: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211408/0 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 Roosky. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME003-008: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME003-008----. 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 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 Roosky. ## 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 Roosky, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/meath/roosky.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/roosky.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/roosky.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymacolgan: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymacolgan.md - Breslanstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/breslanstown.md - Drumbride: https://everytownland.com/meath/drumbride.md - Largy: https://everytownland.com/meath/largy.md - Mullaghmore: https://everytownland.com/meath/mullaghmore.md - Newstone: https://everytownland.com/meath/newstone.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/meath/roosky - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/roosky