Roosk

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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Roosk 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.

• 2 Nov 2020Conditional

  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

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 20540

• 23 Oct 2020N/a

  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

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20522

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  (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

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2098

• 9 Dec 2019N/a

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19583

• 6 Aug 2019Refused

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19389

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A CUBICLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANKS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1729

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 Roosk.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roosk.

Architectural heritage

• Roosk House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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 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 (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 Roosk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Roosk · Rúsc

Area

979,872 m² (97.99 ha, 242.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacwilliam, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Ballymacwilliam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmore, Jonestown, Kinnafad, Kinnafad (Co. Kildare), Lenamarran

Placenames

Roosk 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.