# Roo, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 589,962 m² (59 ha, 145.78 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,065 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kilmore.md
- Barony: Ballintober North
- Electoral division: Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 184 people lived in 69 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43036
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191840
- Centre: latitude 53.872799, longitude -8.017977 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roo, from 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 289,358 m² (28.94 ha, 71.5 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2493924: 289,358 m² (28.94 ha, 71.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2493924.md
- Parcel 679780: 247,287 m² (24.73 ha, 61.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679780.md
- Parcel 696062: 40,804 m² (4.08 ha, 10.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/696062.md
- Parcel 644720: 6,065 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/644720.md
- Parcel 673493: 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673493.md
- Parcel 701423: 2,363 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701423.md
- Parcel 665806: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/665806.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Roo in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Roo in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roo.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO017-111: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO017-111----. Towards the bottom of the fairly steep N-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking the S shore of Tully Lough. Known locally to have been a 'fort' and described as two small ringforts (diam. c. 30m) (NMI file), two small fields are marked on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level in improved pasture and scrub, but excavation by F. Moore revealed a fosse (Wth c. 5m) S-W with some posts and cairn material in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO017-112: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO017-112----. Towards the SE end of tear-shaped Tully Lough (dims. c. 600m NW-SE, c. 120m NE-SW at SE to c. 400m NE-SW at NW), c. 50m from the S shore. Circular overgrown island (diam. 20m) of earth and stones (H 0.4m) with two upright posts visible underwater at SE and several horizontal timbers also visible underwater SW-WNW. Quernstone fragments are at the centre. Crannog (RO017-109----) is c. 320m to the WNW, and crannog (RO017-110----) is c. 190m to the NW. See the attached aerial view taken from the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO018-015: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO018-015----. On the crest of a NW-SE drumlin ridge, at the SE end. Described in 1952 as a circular area (diam. c. 37m N-S; c. 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and outer fosse SW-N-SE, with the perimeter reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The entrance and causeway were at NE (NMI file). The site was removed in 1971-2 (Gannon 1972), and is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO018-016001*) is c. 170m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO018-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO018-016----. On the gentle SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Described in 1952 as a circular area (diam. 45m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by an earthen bank which was best preserved N-E, with a fosse NW-E-SE and an entrance at NW (NMI file). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 45m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 3.2m; Wth of base 2.1m; D 0.3m) NNW-NE, and by a scarp (H 0.8-1m) elsewhere. Rath (RO018-015----) is c. 170m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO018-017: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO018-017----. On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 32m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 2.4-2.6m; Wth of top 1.9-2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m), and a fosse (at SW: Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.4m) SSW-NW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO018-018----) is c. 210m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO018-018: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO018-018----. Towards the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope. Circular overgrown platform (diam. 28m E-W; 26m N-S; H 1.3-1.6m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 2.2-2.5m; D 0.4-0.6m). There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO018-017----) is c. 210m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Roo, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, 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.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/roo.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/roo.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/roo.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Roo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballycummin: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballycummin.md
- Fearagh (Caddell): https://everytownland.com/roscommon/fearagh-caddell.md
- Kilcock: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/kilcock.md
- Meelick: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/meelick-191662.md
- Scrabbagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/scrabbagh.md
- Tully: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tully-192025.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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