Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Roscommon

Planning applications inside the Roscommon, Co. Roscommon settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
471
County
Roscommon

What the data shows

The planning register for Roscommon contains a total of 471 applications, with recent lodgements showing 57 applications in 2023, 41 in 2024, and 47 in 2025. Out of 300 applications granted, refused, or part-granted since 2016, the area has an 87% grant rate, consisting of 261 granted, 39 refused, and 0 part-granted applications. The most common development types are extensions at 17%, retentions at 17%, new dwellings at 13%, and commercial developments at 12%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include permissions for vehicular entrance retention, external renovations with extensions, a new two-storey dwelling, a change of use from office to residential, a two-storey dwelling with a garage, and the refurbishment of a vacant dwelling.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

87%

of 300 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
261
Refused
39
No decision recorded
171

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Extension
17%
Retention
17%
New dwelling
13%
Commercial
12%
Change of use
11%
Alterations
9%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Roscommon, 2016–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension96%5395%
Retention84%4990%
Change of use94%3488%
Commercial97%3288%
New dwelling69%3282%
Alterations94%3192%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Roscommon

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.