Roelough

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roelough, from 25 m² to 116,130 m² (11.61 ha, 28.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Roelough 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.

• 24 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SPLIT-LEVEL OUTHOUSE/GARDEN ROOM WITH A FIRST FLOOR MEZZANINE LOFT ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING COTTAGE STRUCTURES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660495

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351046

• 13 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A) RENOVATIONS WORKS TO EXISTING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE, (C) DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, AND (D) NEW REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVE THE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351038

• 10 Jul 2023N/a

  (1) RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SERVING THE HOUSE AND THE EXISTING CHALET TO THE WEST OF THE HOUSE AND (4) NEW REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVE THE HOUSE AND THE EXISTING CHALET TO THE WEST OF THE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351004

• 2 May 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350594

• 17 Jan 2022Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION WORKS TO STONE COTTAGE (2) DWELLING AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 92/601 (3) SEPTIC TANKS AND PERCOLATION AREAS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250030

• 4 Apr 2019N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF RENOVATION WORKS TO A STONE COTTAGE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND (2) RETENTION OF DWELLING AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 92/601 AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 1950448

• 3 Oct 2018N/a

  RENOVATIONS WORKS TO A STONE COTTAGE AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK & SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851518

• 8 Dec 2017N/a

  RENOVATION WORKS TO A STONE COTTAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751841

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roelough.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Roelough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Roelough.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Roelough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Roelough · An Rualach

Area

525,511 m² (52.55 ha, 129.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Largymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 216 households in the Largymore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortalia, Lergadaghtan, Letter, Muckros

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Roelough 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.