Rosscat

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosscat, from 693 m² to 338,356 m² (33.84 ha, 83.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Rosscat 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.

• 31 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL BEDROOM AND LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461169

• 25 Jul 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 1 & ½ STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL BEDROOM AND LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461139

• 2 Jan 2024Conditional

  EXISTING CONCRETE SLAB AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF HORSE STABLES WITH MIDDEN STORAGE, (2) ERECTION OF CONCRETE APRON AND HARDCORE AREA, AND (3) ALTERATION AND WIDENING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450001

• 12 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK\SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951084

• 29 May 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE , DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950797

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 Rosscat.

Recorded monuments

• DG103-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 16m. Only the S arc of an enclosing earthen bank survives up to a height of .5m. It is situated on the N slope of a drumlin in good pasture land and with good 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

• DG103-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 21.5m. A slightly raised circular area enclosed by an earthen bank. There are two gaps one to the W and a second to the E. The former would seem a more likely location for an entrance. The site is located on the crest of a hill in pasture land. 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 Rosscat.

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 Rosscat, about 1 in 20 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 Rosscat.

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

Name

Rosscat

Area

821,344 m² (82.13 ha, 202.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,738 people lived in 624 households in the Ballyshannon Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alla, Ardeelan Upper, Cashel, Killinangel Beg, Lurgan, Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany

Placenames

Rosscat 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.