Roshin Acres
Roshin Acres is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Na hAcraí.
Parcel 1384284
- Area
- 825 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 122 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Roshin Acres
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 95.6 ha
- 236 acres
- Land parcels
- 204
- registered freehold, median 2,279 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
204 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roshin Acres, from 20 m² to 55,645 m² (5.56 ha, 13.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roshin Acres 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Sept 2026N/a
SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO FRONT OF EXISTING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661713
26 Feb 2026Conditional
(1) EXTENSION TO THE GABLE SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE, (2) DETACHED GARAGE TO THE REAR OF HOUSE AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660291
6 Nov 2025Conditional
DINING ROOM EXTENSION INCLUDING SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561941
30 Apr 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560685
16 Dec 2024Conditional
MOBILE HOME FOR A TEMPORARY PERIOD, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS DWELLING HOUSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE MOBILE HOME WILL THEN BE REMOVED, INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462080
23 Oct 2024Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50157 INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461682
23 Jul 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450186
13 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350157
28 Sept 2022Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVE THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251623
29 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251118
21 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250291
22 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152608
8 Oct 2021Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE SAND FILTER TOGETHER WITH NECESSARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152012
21 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151890
9 Jun 2021Conditional
EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151125
3 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A TIMBER STRUCTURE GAZEBO WITH NECESSARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151085
20 Mar 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050361
18 Feb 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050174
7 Feb 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050130
17 Aug 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851268
2 Feb 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTHOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW EXTENDED BUILDING TO ACCOMMODATE A COFFEE SHOP/LIGHT FOOD BAR WITH KITCHEN AND TOILET FACILITIES. INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CAR PARK WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850158
27 Oct 2017Refused
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTHOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW EXTENDED BUILDING TO ACCOMMODATE A COFFEE SHOP/LIGHT FOOD BAR WITH KITCHEN AND TOILET FACILITIES (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CAR PARK WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751653
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roshin Acres.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roshin Acres.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1910, having canted bay windows flanking entrance, and two-storey extension to rear. Hipped cement-tiled roof on raised eaves course with cast-iron rainwater goods, flat roof to canted bays with moulded parapet, flat roof to extension with rendered coping, and rendered central chimneystack. Smooth-rendered walls throughout, with sill course to canted bays and string course over openings. Segmental-headed window openings, first floor of front elevation having raised render surrounds and keystones and end bays having double windows, with stone sills and replacement timber windows. Segmental-headed doorway having moulded render archivolt with decorative keystone, pilasters with capitals and replacement timber panelled door with glazed surround, approached by flight of round-plan steps. Garden to front, bounded by low rendered wall with decorative cast-iron railings and gateway.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Roshin Acres, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roshin Acres.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roshin Acres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Roshin Acres · Na hAcraí
- Area
- 955,806 m² (95.58 ha, 236.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Rutland, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,496 people lived in 635 households in the Rutland electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clogherdillure, Cruickaghmore, Leckenagh, Roshin Lodge
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Roshin Acres 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.