Roskeen

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roskeen, from 551 m² to 669,649 m² (66.96 ha, 165.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Roskeen 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.

• 15 Aug 2023Conditional

  construct a new entrance and new access laneway to agricultural land

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360321

• 11 Nov 2022Conditional

  construct a proposed 2 storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22693

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  retention permission for existing garage with home gym and office in the roof space and a single storey shed and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21329

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  retain extension to house incorporating extension to rear on ground floor and dormer extension, retention of sheds and permission to install percolation area

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19408

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 Roskeen.

Recorded monuments

• LA001-002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated atop high ground site has been levelled and appears as grass-covered wall foundations. Depicted on first edition of the OS 6-inch map as an L-shaped building with its long axis orienated on an E-W axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Roskeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Roskeen · Ros Caoin

Area

3,810,197 m² (381.02 ha, 941.52 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Cappalough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappalough electoral division: 361 people in 116 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyavill (Co. Offaly), Ballylevin (Co. Offaly), Ballymacrossan (Co. Offaly), Cappanlug, Castlebrack, Kilcavan, Lackamore, Moneyquid, Parkbeg

Placenames

Roskeen 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.