# Roo, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Rú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 688,248 m² (68.82 ha, 170.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 32,616 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghnamullen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghnamullen.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Creeve, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39806 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171614 - Centre: latitude 54.099357, longitude -6.883701 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roo, from 372 m² to 124,511 m² (12.45 ha, 30.77 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 326307: 124,511 m² (12.45 ha, 30.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326307.md - Parcel 351124: 67,171 m² (6.72 ha, 16.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351124.md - Parcel 356768: 62,893 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356768.md - Parcel 347826: 60,557 m² (6.06 ha, 14.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347826.md - Parcel 327093: 54,589 m² (5.46 ha, 13.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327093.md - Parcel 344178: 49,723 m² (4.97 ha, 12.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344178.md - Parcel 344420: 45,726 m² (4.57 ha, 11.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344420.md - Parcel 332344: 40,570 m² (4.06 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332344.md - Parcel 333827: 37,532 m² (3.75 ha, 9.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333827.md - Parcel 343233: 35,911 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343233.md - Parcel 345029: 32,616 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345029.md - Parcel 326070: 28,352 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326070.md - Parcel 355458: 27,548 m² (2.75 ha, 6.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355458.md - Parcel 5345067: 5,062 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5345067.md - Parcel 341621: 4,611 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341621.md - Parcel 5658877: 4,081 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5658877.md - Parcel 354978: 3,729 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354978.md - Parcel 316839: 2,788 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316839.md - Parcel 5755896: 1,066 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755896.md - Parcel 5755888: 764 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755888.md - Parcel 5755721: 372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755721.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2019, Monaghan County Council 19220: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19220/0 - 1 Dec 2017, Monaghan County Council 17573: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17573/0 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 Roo. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roo. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roo. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2478.zip (ZIP). - 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/monaghan/roo.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/roo.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/roo.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Roo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghakista: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghakista.md - Creeve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/creeve-170587.md - Mullanary Cortannel: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullanary-cortannel.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/monaghan/roo - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/roo