# Roughan, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilfenora, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 520,308 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,518 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilfenora, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilfenora.md
- Barony: Corcomroe
- Electoral division: Kilfenora, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 406 people lived in 165 households in the Kilfenora electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6725
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 32097
- Centre: latitude 53.010578, longitude -9.20279 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roughan, from 119 m² to 101,784 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1441766: 101,784 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441766.md
- Parcel 2454579: 70,734 m² (7.07 ha, 17.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454579.md
- Parcel 1513338: 61,654 m² (6.17 ha, 15.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513338.md
- Parcel 1512268: 55,509 m² (5.55 ha, 13.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512268.md
- Parcel 1429774: 34,259 m² (3.43 ha, 8.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429774.md
- Parcel 1441765: 30,967 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441765.md
- Parcel 1500704: 25,165 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500704.md
- Parcel 1508377: 17,607 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508377.md
- Parcel 1462016: 6,701 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1462016.md
- Parcel 2754402: 6,518 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2754402.md
- Parcel 4404901: 2,898 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4404901.md
- Parcel 1489590: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489590.md
- Parcel 5455565: 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5455565.md
- Parcel 1496078: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496078.md
- Parcel 1460575: 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460575.md
- Parcel 1470873: 1,967 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1470873.md
- Parcel 1456603: 1,179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456603.md
- Parcel 2754390: 324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2754390.md
- Parcel 2754383: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2754383.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roughan.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL009-096001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-096001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-096002-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Roughan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/roughan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/roughan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/roughan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Roughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballykeel North: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballykeel-north.md
- Ballykinvarga: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballykinvarga.md
- Ballyshanny: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyshanny.md
- Caherminnaun West: https://everytownland.com/clare/caherminnaun-west.md
- Kiltennan North: https://everytownland.com/clare/kiltennan-north.md
- Maryville: https://everytownland.com/clare/maryville.md
- Rusheen: https://everytownland.com/clare/rusheen-32105.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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