Roughan

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roughan, from 119 m² to 101,784 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Roughan 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.

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

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 Roughan.

Recorded monuments

• CL009-096001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a bedrock knoll at the S edge of a plateau, commanding wide views from SE to W, with adjacent land also dipping to the W and E. Hachured as a roughly oval enclosure on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map; a disused limekiln is shown at its base at S on the 25-inch plan. This rath (int. dims. c. 33m NW-SE; c. 27m NE-SW; ext. dims. 46m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) is defined by a scarp (original H c. 2m; Wth c. 5m). There are traces of a very low bank (max. H 0.2-0.3m) around the top of the scarp almost everywhere, except between E and SE; at S it is set slightly back from the scarp edge. There are later ramp entrances at SE (Wth 2.3m) and NW (Wth 3.5m; L 6m). The raised interior is quite level and featureless, apart from a shallow ditch (base Wth 1m; Wth at top 3.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) and associated spoil mound (Wth c. 3.5m; H 0.5m), which extend from the centre to the E edge of the scarp. These are later features. The rath is heavily poached and the scarp and bank have been truncated in various places: by farm buildings to the E and a modern trackway that skirts around it from SE to NW. A castle (CL009-096002-) may be associated. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-096001-_01.jpg View from W Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 25 May 2022

• CL009-096002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  This castle is indicated by a cross - the symbol for ‘site of’ - in the NW half of the interior of a rath (CL009-096001-) on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is labelled ‘Roughan Castle (Supposed Site of)’ on the latter map. A castle is listed in Roughan in 1574 when it was in the ownership of an O’Loughlin (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997). Westropp (1915, 256) was ‘inclined to accept’ a local account of the rath being the site of the ‘Castle of Roughan’ as ‘there seems to have been one in the townland’. However, there is absolutely no visible trace of it in the rath and most of its interior remains undisturbed. The abandoned 18th/19th-century farmhouse immediately to its E incorporates ‘much cut and dressed limestone blocks’ (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997). A blocked doorway bears a lintel (Wth 1.08m; H 0.43m; front face H 0.13m; receding face T 0.2m) consisting of a single piece of dressed limestone finished to form a flat elliptical arch (Wth 0.86m) with a chamfered edge (Wth 0.06m). Another stone (Wth 0.47m; H 0.19m) at the base of this doorway is the sillstone (Wth 0.2m) of a single-light chamfered window. These appear to be of late-medieval date and may be associated with the castle. (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997) See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 8 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Roughan.

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 Roughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Roughan

Area

520,308 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfenora, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Kilfenora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfenora electoral division: 406 people in 165 households; 78% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeel North, Ballykinvarga, Ballyshanny, Caherminnaun West, Kiltennan North, Maryville, Rusheen

Placenames

Roughan 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.