Rosnakill

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosnakill, from 16 m² to 186,451 m² (18.65 ha, 46.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rosnakill 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.

• 22 Jan 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC SHED WITH SEPTIC TANKS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460027

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) ERECTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW INTERNAL PUBLIC STAIRS AND ACCESSIBLE LIFT TO GAIN ACCESS TO FIRST FLOOR AREA OF EXISTING ROSSNAKILL TOURISM & ACTIVITY CENTRE BUILDING, (2) INTERNAL AMENDMENTS AND ADJUSTMENTS TO INCLUDE REMOVAL OF EXISTING INTERNAL WALLS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW INTERNAL WALLS TO AREAS, (3) RE-POSITIONING OF EXTERNAL DOOR TO REAR OF BUILDING, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTERNAL DOOR AND INSERTION OF NEW WINDOWS TO REAR OF BUILDING, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ENCLOSED PROTECTED EMERGENCY ESCAPE STAIRWELL, (6) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DORMER STYLE FLAT ROOF WINDOWS TO FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING BUILDING TO FIRST FLOOR AREA TO INCREASE HEAD HEIGHT AND FLOOR SPACE TO FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND TO INCLUDE ROOF SPACE BALCONY AND (7) RENOVATION AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING FIRST FLOOR STORAGE LEVEL AREA TO MIXED USE AREA TO INCLUDE MULTI-USE SPACE, TOILETS, HALLWAY AND STORAGE AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350331

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

• DG017-015 Church
  Description

  This is believed locally to be the site of an early ecclesiastical foundation associated with St. Davaddog. Clondevaddock Church of Ireland church is still in use. In 1622, the church (DG017-015-) was undergoing restoration (Royal Commission, 217). It was restored about 1830 (Rowan 1979, 477) and the round-headed windows may be insertions of that date. The interior of the N wall preserves the splayed openings with segmental rear-arch of two small blocked-up windows; these are probably original features. In the E face of the N graveyard (DG017-015001-) gatepost is a carved corbel-like head of uncertain date. The pointed oval face is damaged particularly around the mouth, from which area stylised foliage projects on either side. It is claimed that there were 'early cross-slabs' and a 'holy well' in the vicinity but it was not possible to locate any futher evidence for them. 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

• DG017-015001 Graveyard
  Description

  This is believed locally to be the site of an early ecclesiastical foundation associated with St. Davaddog. Clondevaddock Church of Ireland church is still in use. In 1622, the church (DG017-015-) was undergoing restoration (Royal Commission, 217). It was restored about 1830 (Rowan 1979, 477) and the round-headed windows may be insertions of that date. The interior of the N wall preserves the splayed openings with segmental rear-arch of two small blocked-up windows; these are probably original features. In the E face of the N graveyard (DG017-015001-) gatepost is a carved corbel-like head of uncertain date. The pointed oval face is damaged particularly around the mouth, from which area stylised foliage projects on either side. It is claimed that there were 'early cross-slabs' and a 'holy well' in the vicinity but it was not possible to locate any futher evidence for them. 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

• Church of Christ the Redeemer, church/chapel, 1690–1700 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-height hall-type Church of Ireland church, built c. 1610 and altered 1693, c. 1830 and 1868, comprising a three-bay hall with single-bay single-storey entrance porch attached to the south-west corner, and with modern single-bay single-storey toilet extension attached to the west gable end. Refurbished c. 1990. Pitched natural slate roof with concrete ridge tiles, rendered bellcote to west gable end with bell metal bell, projecting eaves courses, and having replacement rainwater goods. Pitched artificial slate roof to entrance porch and mono-pitch natural slate roof to toilet extension. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course, memorial stone incorporated into south elevation. Round-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening to east elevation of entrance porch having double timber sheeted door. Central window opening to east (chancel) elevation having leaded stained glass inset with secondary window over; ventilation opening to attic above. Hall-type interior having gallery supported on metal columns to the west end having timber panelled balustrade with pointed-arched motifs, timber pews and various stone and marble memorials throughout. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Rosnakil and to the north-east of Carrigart on the south-wet end of the Fanad Peninsula. Graveyard to site containing collection of upstanding and recumbent memorials dating from the seventeenth century; some memorials in railed enclosures, number of table and mausolea-type memorials to site. Graveyard (on rectangular-plan) bounded by rubble stone boundary walls. Main gateway to the south-east corner of site comprising a pair of pebbledashed gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capping over, and with a pair of modern metal gates. Carved mask\head motif built into the eat face of pier of the north. Short approach laneway to the east from main road.

• House, 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1825, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension attached to the west. Pitched thatched roof with raised render verges and smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west) having cornice copings over. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to the north elevation having battened timber door. Set back from and perpendicular to road and accessed via laneway to Church of Christ the Redeemer, Rosnakill (see 40901701). Roughcast rendered boundary wall attached to the east gable end. Yard to rear (south) having collection of modern farm buildings and outbuildings. Located to the south of Rosnakill, and a short distance to the east of Doocarrick Bay.

• Keadew Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over tidal estuary\unnamed stream flowing into Keadew Bay to the north-west, built c. 1780, having V-profile rubble stone cutwater to central pier to both the north and south elevations. Bridge rises from either end to centre creating slightly hump-backed from. Segmental-headed arches having rubble stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to the arch barrels. Random rubble stone construction to pier, spandrels, and parapets. Modern repairs in places, cement coping to parapets. Cast-iron pattrice plates to side elevations (north and south) linked with wrought-iron tie bars. Water pipe to the north elevation. Tarmacadam deck. Located to the south of Rosnakill to the south-west of the Fanad Peninsula.

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 Rosnakill, about 1 in 10 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 Rosnakill.

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 Rosnakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Rosnakill · Ros na Cille

Area

1,337,315 m² (133.73 ha, 330.46 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rosnakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina, Ballykinard, Ballymagowan Lower, Rathgory, Tawny

Placenames

Rosnakill 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.