Roo

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roo, from 372 m² to 124,511 m² (12.45 ha, 30.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Roo 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.

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house & detached domestic garage, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system & mounded soil polishing filter, construct new agricultural entrance together with all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to construction of new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19220

• 1 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission for the decommission of 5 no mushroom houses and to construct 2 no poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s), soiled water tank(s) and alterations to/upgrading of existing store) and site works associated with the development

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17573

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 Roo.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roo.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2478 (ZIP).

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 Roo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Roo · An Rú

Area

688,248 m² (68.82 ha, 170.07 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Creeve electoral division: 705 people in 230 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghakista, Creeve, Mullanary Cortannel

Placenames

Roo 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.