Rooskagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooskagh, from 45 m² to 112,737 m² (11.27 ha, 27.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Rooskagh 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.

• 14 May 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for construction of dwelling house and garage (change of plan to that permitted under pl. reg. no. (21/6802)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4901

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for (a) demolition of a detached domestic shed to the front/side of existing dwelling, (b) demolition of existing front porch to dwelling, (c) the construction of a single storey extension to the front/side of the existing dwelling house, (d) construction of single storey extension to the front of existing dwelling, (e) construction of rooflight to the front elevation of existing dwelling, (f) construction of new domestic shed (for uses incidental to use and enjoyment of the dwelling), and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4596

• 22 Apr 2024Withdrawn

  Permission for construction of dwelling house and garage (change of plan to that permitted under pl.reg. no. 21/6802)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4693

• 19 Mar 2024Incompleted application

  Permission to construct 1) a single storey detached dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works. 2) Decommission of existing septic tank and installation of a new wastewater treatment unit to serve the existing dwelling. (change of plan to that permitted under pl.ref.no. 21/6802)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4467

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, retention of 4 no. roof lights to the front elevation of the existing dwelling house, retention of the construction of a first floor window opening to the side (east) elevation of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5574

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission of (1) construct a new dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, install a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works, (2) Install a new wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works to serve the existing dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6802

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  To construct a single storey detached dwelling, new vehicular entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6506

• 18 Aug 2021Incompleted application

  To construct a single storey detached dwelling, new vehicle entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6278

• 12 May 2021Incompleted application

  To construct a single storey detached dwelling, new vehicle entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5289

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional permission

  Retention and completion of vehicular entrance

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 20/6332

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  The demolition of an existing detached dormer dwelling and the construction of a new two storey detached dwelling including all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5206

• 15 Feb 2019Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4355

• 24 Aug 2018Withdrawn

  To construct a dwellinghouse.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6238

• 6 Oct 2017Conditional

  Side & rear extension to dwelling house, installation of roof lights to existing dwelling, installation of a new waste water treatment system and also demolition of a small garage to side.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6615

• 15 Sept 2017Incompleted application

  Side and rear extension to dwelling house to include installation of new waste water treatment system and also the demolition of small garage to side.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6394

• 2 Jun 2015Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extension to existing dwelling and Permission for construction of new waste water treatment system to serve dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5156

• 23 Apr 2014Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse, finished floor level, orientation and position as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4812

• 24 Feb 2011Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse with attached guest accommodation, artist studio, log storage, glasshouse, garage and heating/storage area, sewage treatment system, access avenue and entrance from public road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4366

• 31 Jan 2011Incompleted application

  Two storey dwellinghouse with attached guest accommodation, artist studio, log storage, glasshouse, garage and heating/storage area, sewage treatment system, access avenue and entrance from public road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4146

• 21 Dec 2010Incompleted application

  Two storey dwellinghouse and sewage treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8756

• 14 Dec 2010Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank and associated site works (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 06/6218)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8713

• 18 May 2009Conditional

  Retention of front porch and balcony to dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5600

• 9 Mar 2009Incompleted application

  Retention of front porch & balcony of dwelling & all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4719

• 19 Dec 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10239

• 14 Aug 2006Conditional

  Dormer type dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9739

The 25 most recent of 38 applications.

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 Rooskagh.

Recorded monuments

• CO089-075 Fulacht fia
  Description

  According to local information, burnt material uncovered on N bank of stream during land reclamation works c. 1981. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1910, with gabled porch to front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, timber bargeboard and ridge capping. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows, bipartite to east bays. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to west with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed opening. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south with pitched corrugated-iron roof and painted rubble stone walls. Rendered boundary walls with rendered square-profile piers to pedestrian and vehicular entrances. Cast-iron gate to pedestrian entrance.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rooskagh.

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 Rooskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Rooskagh · Rúscach

Area

946,090 m² (94.61 ha, 233.78 acres)

Civil parish

Bohillane, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Ballycottin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycottin electoral division: 1,975 people in 695 households; 81% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybane, Ballyhimikin, Loughane, Shanagarry, Shanagarry North, Shanavagoon

Placenames

Rooskagh 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.