Roughaun

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roughaun, from 7 m² to 102,413 m² (10.24 ha, 25.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Roughaun 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.

• 29 Apr 2025N/a

  for the construction of an extension and modifications to an existing dwelling house, the demolition of external storage shed, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560229

• 18 Dec 2024Refused

  to build a new dwelling and install a waste water treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24424

• 12 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a new detached single storey dwelling house, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360108

• 9 Nov 2022N/a

  to construct a new detached single storey dwelling house, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221013

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 Roughaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL016-052001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Near the bottom of a S-facing slope with good views to the E, SE and W. Hachured and named ‘Cahermore’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 15) recorded it in 1839, as ‘Cahirmore’ and ‘of thirty six yards in diameter, built of very large well shaped stones, the walls in some places seven feet high on the outside having a considerable batter or taper, and eight feet thick at the top (at height of seven feet)’ and opined that it was ‘the most remarkable’ of several cashels in the parish (ibid., 21). The souterrain was open in his time, but inaccessible ‘on account of the narrowness of the passage’ (ibid., 15). Westropp (1896, 367-8) described it as built ‘of finely fitted masonry’, with a visible outer face and a damaged inner face. He recorded the souterrain as ‘closed’ (Westropp 1900, 407). A well-preserved roughly circular cashel (ext. dims. 36.8m NE-SW) defined by a drystone wall (at S: Wth 2.1-2.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) and a spread of collapsed stone (Wth c. 6-7m; H 0.6-1m) with no visible entrance. The outer wall-face is generally visible, and the inner face is partially visible. In the SW, part of the wall has been rebuilt and a cell has been built on the wall at S. The interior slopes to the SW and a blocked up souterrain (CL016-052003-) is visible in the SE sector. The site of a tau cross (CL016-052002-) and cross fragment (CL016-052004-) are located c. 37m to the N and the site of a gateway (CL016-050----) is located c. 77m to the NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 11 May 2022

• CL016-052002 Cross - Tau cross
  Description

  This record is for the original location of a Tau Cross listed as ‘Cross’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). There is a replica on site. See CL017-116003- for the present location of the cross and details. The cross is a national monument in State care, No. 574. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 May 2015

• CL016-052003 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SE quadrant of a cashel (CL016-052001-). Named ‘cave’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Described by O'Donovan in 1830 as open but inaccessible ‘on account of the narrowness of the passage’ (Comber 1997, 15). Described by Westropp (1900, 407) as 'closed'. The entrance (H 1m; Wth 0.6m) to the souterrain is visible inside the wall of the cashel c. 8m from the centre. It is blocked up with old timbers. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 11 May 2022

• CL016-052004 Cross
  Description

  This record is for the original location of portion of a cross shaft depicted leaning against a Tau cross (CL016-052002-/CL017-116003-) on a S-facing slope, c. 15m to the S of the Leamaneh to Kilnaboy road. The stone fragment ‘may have formed the bottom of the shaft of the [tau] cross’ (Harbison 2009, 32). The fragment (L 0.48m; Wth 0.28m; T 0.1m) is no longer in situ and is kept in the OPW depot in Athenry under the SMR number GA084-151005-.The upper, decorated portion of the tau cross is currently on display in the old protestant church of Corofin (CL017-116001-), which now serves as an interpretative centre. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 11 May 2022

• CL016-054 Cist
  Description

  At the bottom of a S-facing slope in a field of reclaimed grassland. Named ‘Ancient Grave’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1900, 431) described a cist in Roughaun near Cahermore (CL016-052001-) c. 150m to the NW with two skeletons ‘not extended, but with their feet to the east’. In 1907 he gave dimensions for the cist (L 1.67m; Wth 1.1m) and noted that the burials were discovered in 1885 by a Mr. G Fitzgerald (Westropp 1907, 464). An outcropping rock (L 1m; T 0.15m) at the S extent of a cairn (CL016-054002-) may be the partial remains of the cist. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 18 May 2022

• CL016-054002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  At the bottom of a S-facing slope in a field of reclaimed grassland. Named ‘Ancient Grave’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. An overgrown stone cairn (2m E-W; 1.2m N-S; H 0.5-0.7m) aligned E-W. An exposed stone (L 1m; T 0.15m) at S may be the partial remains of a cist (CL016-054001-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 18 May 2022

• CL016-146001 Standing stone
  Description

  Located at the NE edge of a cairn (CL016-146002-), this limestone standing stone (0.55m N-S; 0.34m E-W; max. H 1.08m at N) is aligned N-S. Its jagged top suggests it has been broken and another piece of limestone visible on the surface of the cairn, c. 0.7m to its S, may be the piece that was broken off. The stone is polished as a result of cattle using it as a scratching post. Some packing stones are visible at its base. The following image has been uploaded: CL016-146001-_01.jpg View from E Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 August 2022

• CL016-146002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On a low flat-topped hillock in pasture. A grassed-over flat-topped cairn (dims. at base: 6.2m N-S; 4.3m E-W; dims. at top 1.8m E-W; 1.16m N-S; H 0.3-0.6m). A standing stone (CL016-146001-) is located at its NE edge. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 3 August 2022

• CL017-005 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pasture, with widest views out to W. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (40.7m NE-SW; 37.4m NW-SE) is defined by an overgrown wall (H c. 0.2m) of which only the basal stones survive. A later drystone wall is built over part of the cashel perimeter. There is an entrance gap (Wth 3m) at the WNW which may not be original. At the S edge of the grass-covered, gently NE-sloping interior a rectangular drystone structure with a curved NE corner (int. dims. 16.4m WNW-ESE; 4.4m NNE-SSW) is defined by a coursed wall (H 1-1.6m). There is a gap (Wth 2.1m) at the E end of the S wall, and a stone-filled doorway (Wth 1.1m) near the W end of that wall. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 17 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Roughaun.

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

Name

Roughaun · Rabhchán

Area

513,790 m² (51.38 ha, 126.96 acres)

Civil parish

Killinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Killinaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinaboy electoral division: 347 people in 132 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycasheen, Drummoher, Elmvale, Killinaboy, Leana, Parknabinnia

Placenames

Roughaun 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.