Roosky

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 23 m² to 199,358 m² (19.94 ha, 49.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Roosky 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.

• 18 Jan 2023Conditional

  Permission for works to include alterations and extension to existing dwelling house including demolition of existing rear extension with provision for new site entrance and installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and infiltration system with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 238

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.

Recorded monuments

• RO014-083 Burial
  Description

  In April 1988 four skulls and other human bones were recovered in dredging operations conducted by the OPW Drainage Division on the SE-NW Roosky River c. 400m from its confluence with the W-E Lung River. The discovery was investigated by Nessa O'Connor of NMI, but the original disposition of the remains could not be discovered. They were acquired by NMI (1988: 227). (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 511, 7.184) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of Upload: 20 March, 2012.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Roosky

Area

1,971,039 m² (197.1 ha, 487.05 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Artagh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Artagh North electoral division: 864 people in 334 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacurreen, Aghadrestan, Aghalustia, Cloonavullaun, Crunaun, Kiltybranks

Placenames

Roosky 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.