# Roosk, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacwilliam, barony of Warrenstown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Rúsc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 979,872 m² (97.99 ha, 242.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,128 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacwilliam, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballymacwilliam.md - Barony: Warrenstown - Electoral division: Ballymacwilliam, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballymacwilliam electoral division: 652 people in 214 households; 94% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41616 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181061 - Centre: latitude 53.364479, longitude -7.09203 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosk, from 2,118 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 513,615 m² (51.36 ha, 126.92 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 309471: 513,615 m² (51.36 ha, 126.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309471.md - Parcel 270938: 349,251 m² (34.93 ha, 86.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270938.md - Parcel 272181: 88,288 m² (8.83 ha, 21.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272181.md - Parcel 2920581: 9,462 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2920581.md - Parcel 270811: 5,128 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270811.md - Parcel 270187: 4,689 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270187.md - Parcel 4651302: 4,267 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651302.md - Parcel 273888: 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273888.md - Parcel 5872391: 2,118 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5872391.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Roosk 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 2 Nov 2020, Offaly County Council 20540: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE: OCC PS 07-06, NIAH 14904015. WORKS TO INCLUDE: - A. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UTILITY ROOM AND BATHROOM B. CONSTRUCTION OF CONTEMPORARY STYLE TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE AND THE REAR OF THE EXISTING FARM DWELLING (PROTECTED STRUCTURE), C. RESTORATION OF THE EXISTING FARM DWELLING (PROTECTED STRUCTURE) INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY D. CLOSE OFF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW WIDER AND SAFER VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, WITH NEW STONE PIERS AND NEW GATES. E. CONVERSION OF EXISTING DISUSED SHED INTO HOME OFFICE, WC, AND DOMESTIC USE STORAGE AREA. F. REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND REPLACEMENT PERCOLATION AREA. G. NEW GRAVEL DRIVEWAY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20540/0 - 23 Oct 2020, Offaly County Council 20522: N/a. Permission. WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE: OCC PS 07-06, NIAH 14904015. WORKS TO INCLUDE: - A. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UTILITY ROOM AND BATHROOM B. CONSTRUCTION OF CONTEMPORARY STYLE TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE AND THE REAR OF THE EXISTING FARM DWELLING (PROTECTED STRUCTURE), C. RESTORATION OF THE EXISTING FARM DWELLING (PROTECTED STRUCTURE) INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY D. CLOSE OFF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW WIDER AND SAFER VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, WITH NEW STONE PIERS AND NEW GATES. E. CONVERSION OF EXISTING DISUSED SHED INTO HOME OFFICE, WC, AND DOMESTIC USE STORAGE AREA. F. REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND REPLACEMENT PERCOLATION AREA. G. NEW GRAVEL DRIVEWAY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20522/0 - 20 Mar 2020, Offaly County Council 2098: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. (A) NEW EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXIXTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF 144.5 SQ/M (B) REMOVAL OF FRONT PART OF EXISTING SHEDS (C) NEW GARAGE CONSISTING OF 36 SQ/M (D) RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2098/0 - 9 Dec 2019, Offaly County Council 19583: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19583/0 - 6 Aug 2019, Offaly County Council 19389: Refused. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19389/0 - 3 Feb 2017, Offaly County Council 1729: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A CUBICLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANKS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1729/0 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 Roosk. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roosk. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Roosk House, house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14904015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14904015. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with return to rear and lean-to extension to north. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled limestone block-and-start surround with patera to keystone, spoked fanlight and a replacement uPVC door. Square-headed door opening to rear with a tooled limestone block-and-start surround and a timber battened door. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to partially cobbled rear yard with pitched slate roofs and carriage arch openings. Cast-iron pedestrian gate to front site. Rendered quadrant walls to road. ## 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 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_2258, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2258.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/offaly/roosk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roosk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roosk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Roosk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonmore-180420.md - Jonestown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/jonestown.md - Kinnafad: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kinnafad.md - Kinnafad (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/kinnafad.md - Lenamarran: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lenamarran.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/offaly/roosk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/roosk