Roscath

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roscath, from 8 m² to 199,351 m² (19.94 ha, 49.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Roscath 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.

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  open storage shed used for storing firewood, classic tractor and garden equipment and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26161

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  converted attic space to habitable accommodation and retention of balcony with spiral staircase to eastern elevation of dwelling, all ancillary to the use of this single dwelling and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 25124

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  overground electronic communications infrastructure and associated physical infrastructure

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 23877

• 15 Aug 2023Refused

  converted attic space to habitable accommodation and retention of elevated balcony with spiral staircase to eastern elevation of dwelling and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23653

• 17 Jan 2022Refused

  existing 154.1sqm domestic shed as constructed on site, new gravel area and associate works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2226

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

  proposed alterations to existing side extension including new roof structure and proposed rear extension to dwelling, retention of domestic storage shed on site and replacement waste water treatment system to EPA standards and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211466

• 15 Jul 2021Refused

  Section 254 - Roadside Directional Signs - Location 7 Map WH3

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 21890

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  front porch to dwelling and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17873

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  single storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17250

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 Roscath.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-091 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  This is the record for Area B in Red Tobin's excavation (E3259) on the N11 road improvement scheme. This consisted of four pits/post-holes. Each pit/post-hole was c. 0.3m diameter and contained charcoal-rich fills. Three further pits were in close proximity forming a line of pits/post-holes orientated roughly 3.5m north–south; they were located c. 14m to the east of this cluster of features. The site was interpreted as being structural in nature, possibly representing a prehistoric structure Bronze Age in date. (Tobin 2009g) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 January 2013

• WI031-105 Burnt mound
  Description

  This is the record for the burnt mound excavated by Yvonne Whitty (E3249) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The mound showed two phases of activity. The earliest phase comprised a pit, hearth and postholes and dated to the early Bronze Age. The second phase comprised a trough, and numerous pits and hearths. This phase dated to the middle/late Bronze Age. Both phases were dated by radiocarbon dates. (Whitty 2009q) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 22 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Roscath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Roscath · Ros Sceach

Area

901,567 m² (90.16 ha, 222.78 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunganstown East electoral division: 925 people in 305 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinameesda Upper, Ballinteskin, Ballymurrin Lower, Ballymurrin Upper, Coolacork, Coolbeg

Placenames

Roscath 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.