Roosky

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 133 m² to 537,669 m² (53.77 ha, 132.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 59 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Roosky 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.

• 6 Oct 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) TEMPORARY SITE ENTRANCE AND (B) PARTIALLY COMPLETED DWELLING HOUSE TO FOUNDATION LEVEL, (2) COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (B) NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661847

• 15 May 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660882

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING AND ATTIC CONVERSION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560130

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461470

• 23 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461120

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bulbin Mountain 000120

Recorded monuments

• DG010-026001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 27m. Only a short section of earthen bank and stones, largely reconstructed as a field boundary, survives from this probable cashel. An earlier description (M. R. Colhoun) indicates that the site consisted of a circular level space enclosed by a collapsed earth-covered stone wall, with an opening in the SW. A few metres outside to the S was a 4ft sq. recumbent stone with cupmarks (DG010-026002-). It was then believed (1946) that a 'Dane' was buried in the enclosure and that the site was connected to a souterrain (1500) to the SW. Swan (1949, 18) states that a large slab discovered at the centre of the cashel was part of a souterrain (DG010-026003-). In 1966 during the destruction of the site 4 silver 'Viking' bracelets were found hidden in the wall of the cashel. (Raftery 1969, 133-6). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG010-026002 Rock art
  Description

  Only a short section of earthen bank and stones, largely reconstructed as a field boundary, survives from this probable cashel (DG010-026001-). An earlier description (M. R. Colhoun) indicates that the site consisted of a circular level space enclosed by a collapsed earth-covered stone wall, with an opening in the SW. A few metres outside to the S was a 4ft sq. recumbent stone with cupmarks. It was then believed (1946) that a 'Dane' was buried in the enclosure and that the site was connected to a souterrain (1500) to the SW. Swan (1949, 18) states that a large slab discovered at the centre of the cashel was part of a souterrain (DG010-026003-). In 1966 during the destruction of the site 4 silver 'Viking' bracelets were found hidden in the wall of the cashel. (Raftery 1969, 133-6). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG010-026003 Souterrain
  Description

  Only a short section of earthen bank and stones, largely reconstructed as a field boundary, survives from this probable cashel (DG010-026001-). An earlier description (M. R. Colhoun) indicates that the site consisted of a circular level space enclosed by a collapsed earth-covered stone wall, with an opening in the SW. A few metres outside to the S was a 4ft sq. recumbent stone with cupmarks (DG010-026002-). It was then believed (1946) that a 'Dane' was buried in the enclosure and that the site was connected to a souterrain (1500) to the SW. Swan (1949, 18) states that a large slab discovered at the centre of the cashel was part of a souterrain. In 1966 during the destruction of the site 4 silver 'Viking' bracelets were found hidden in the wall of the cashel. (Raftery 1969, 133-6). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG010-027 Souterrain
  Description

  The entrance to this souterrain is visible but no access is possible. It ran S from the entrance and opened out into at least one chmaber at a distance of 4m-6m. Situated in pasture with rock outcrop. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG010-028 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 2.3m high × c. 0.45m wide. It is now in use as a fence post and is inscribed with modern graffiti. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG010-029 Enclosure
  Description

  A low mound 100m E-W and 10m wide with a central depression is all that survives of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is very overgrown but situated on grazing land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG010-030 Stone row
  Description

  An alignment of 10 stones/features, orientated NE-SW. (1) at NE end is a stone, 1.05m high, with 3 smaller stones around the base. (2) a pile of 4 loose stones. (3) a boulder .3m high. (4) a large boulder .9m high. (5) a recumbent quartz stone .7m high. (6) an upright-quartz stone .8m high. (7) an upright stone .6m high. (8) a loose stone .25m high. (9) an upright quartz stone. (10) a recumbent quartz stone .5m high. Features (4), (5) and (6) are out of alignment. There is a spread of stones between (9) and (10). NE of this alignment are several others which are probably abandoned field walls. Situated in a dry corner of an otherwise marshy field. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Roosky, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2008 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Roosky · Rúscaigh

Area

2,633,757 m² (263.38 ha, 650.82 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmany, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Straid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,298 people lived in 452 households in the Straid electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altahalla, Ballintlieve, Clehagh, Clonmany Glebe, Gaddyduff, Meenadiff, Straid

Placenames

Roosky 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.