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About Roosky

Roosky, Rúscaigh in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 97 km north-east of Galway, with 329 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N4 and R371. The map gives it 616 buildings and 5 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 102 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Population
329 at the 2006 census
Where
97 km north-east of Galway, 122 km from Dublin
Position
53.8323° N, 7.9268° W, 75 m above sea level
Roads
N4 and R371
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
616 buildings, 5 streets, 8 named places in 25 kinds
Roosky Bridge & the River Shannon
Roosky Bridge & the River Shannon·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kid rolling in an inflatable plastic ball (Water ball) on river Shannon in Roosky (Ireland)
Kid rolling in an inflatable plastic ball (Water ball) on river Shannon in Roosky (Ireland)·Liamor4K, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Roscommon since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 102 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4 and R371 running through Roosky.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Rooskey National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Roosky?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 97 km north-east of Galway and 122 km from Dublin, on the N4 and R371.
How big is Roosky?
329 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 616 buildings and 5 named streets.
What is there to see in Roosky?
102 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Bofin, Drumman Beg Lough and Cavan & Leitrim Railway.
How do you get to Roosky?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
616
buildings on the model
5
named streets
8
named places
25
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2279663). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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