Roosky Lower

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky Lower, from 125 m² to 110,894 m² (11.09 ha, 27.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Lower 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.

• 25 Aug 2021Conditional

  (1) TEMPORARY RETENTION OF MOBILE HOME, ACCESS & GRAVEL AREA WITH CONNECTION TO THE SEPTIC TANK OF ADJACENT PROPERTY AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151687

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN SIDED GARAGE/STORE & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150169

• 26 Nov 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF AGRICULTURAL SHED TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 18/50806 TO DRY BED CATTLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951834

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE BUILDING FOR THE STORAGE OF RECYCLED PRODUCTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXISTING RECYCLING AND COURIER/HAULAGE BUSINESS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851919

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850806

• 4 May 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850707

• 9 Aug 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751248

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 Roosky Lower.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-032 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on level, good land with extensive views. 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 Lower.

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 Lower, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1814 (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 Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Roosky Lower · Rúscaigh Íochtarach

Area

548,756 m² (54.88 ha, 135.6 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Castlefinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,252 people lived in 488 households in the Castlefinn electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackrepentance, Carnowen, Carrickbrack, Carrickbrack, Magherahee, Roosky Upper

Placenames

Roosky Lower 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.