Roshin Lodge
Roshin Lodge is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Lóiste an Roisín.
Parcel 4672975
- Area
- 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 206 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 Lodge
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 moderately low, 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.
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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
- 27.4 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roshin Lodge, from 277 m² to 90,076 m² (9.01 ha, 22.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roshin Lodge 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
17 Nov 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550163
28 Oct 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550149
13 Sept 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561575
9 Jul 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561176
2 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) SUN ROOM BUILT TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) TWO-STOREY EXTENSIONS BUILT TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, (3) PITCHED ROOF TO THE DWELLING HOUSE IN LIEU OF AN ORIGINAL FLAT ROOF STRUCTURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461192
17 Aug 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851268
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roshin Lodge.
Architectural heritage
- Burtonport Erasmus Smith School, school, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-storey Gothic Revival Erasmus Smith school, dated 1902, with three-bay main block facing southwest having projecting gabled porch, and single-bay section to northwest end. Now derelict. Pitched purple slate roof, with raised parapets having rendered copings with gablet kneeler stones, shamrock finials to all gables, corbelled dentillated eaves course, gable to mid-facade having shield plaque within oculus inscribed 'Burtonport Erasmus Smith School 1902', and cast-iron rainwater goods. Wet-dashed-rendered walls with stepped buttresses to front elevation. Paired square-headed narrow window openings to northwest end of front elevation and triple-light trefoil-headed windows (with transoms) to mid-facade and to southeast gable, with integral sills and cut-stone surrounds. Shouldered-arch doorway to porch with cut-stone surround. Interior has vaulted ceiling with exposed timber trusses on brackets with diagonally set timber sheeting. Set in overgrown grounds adjacent to Roshin Lodge, with square-plan piers to south and double-leaf steel gate.
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 Lodge, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roshin Lodge.
- 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 Lodge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Roshin Lodge · Lóiste an Roisín
- Area
- 273,671 m² (27.37 ha, 67.63 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
- Burtonport, Clogherdillure, Glennahilt, Leckbeg, Leckenagh, Roshin Acres, Roshin North
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Roshin Lodge 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.