Roo Demesne

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roo Demesne, from 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) to 410,078 m² (41.01 ha, 101.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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 Roo Demesne 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.

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  of dwelling house on revised site boundaries, revised percolation area and type of treatment plant, location and size of garage, location of site entrance. Gross floor space of work to be retained 22.4sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18893

• 20 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house and garage with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 312.8.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171076

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA112-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. A rath (GA112-039----) lies c. 200m to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 August 2019

• GA112-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (diam. 36m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. It has been disturbed at SE where field-clearance rubble is piled upon the enclosing elements. A field wall overlies the outer bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2018

• GA112-040 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystacks and render eaves course. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings to front (north) elevation, having timber panelled door and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Double-leaf vehicular gate to north flanked by rendered piers having stone capping.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roofed porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystack and render copings. Rendered lined-and-ruled walls having render plinth and eaves courses and decorative render quoins. Roughcast render with smooth render plinth course to porch. Square-headed replacement uPVC door to porch. Square-headed window openings to front elevation and porch, having painted sills, render surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed replacement uPVC door to porch. Yard and garden to front of house, with limewashed rubble boundary wall. Farmyard to west, with outbuildings having pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls with square-headed openings.

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 Roo Demesne, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Roo Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Roo Demesne · An Rú

Area

1,265,858 m² (126.59 ha, 312.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kinvarradoorus, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kinvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,558 people lived in 552 households in the Kinvarra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownamaddra, Corranroo (Co. Clare), Crossooha, Inishroo, Leagh North, Mountscribe or Moneyscreebagh, Shanclogh

Placenames

Roo Demesne 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.