Roughan

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roughan, from 257 m² to 101,762 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF FIRST FLOOR ACCESSIBLE WC AND LOBBY, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF REAR EXTENSION TO INCLUDE PASSENGER LIFT, CHANGING PLACES TOILET ON GROUND FLOOR AND WCS AND STORE TO FIRST FLOOR AND (3) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING NEW ACCESS RAMP AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661169

• 13 Dec 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462070

• 28 Apr 2023Refused

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DEMOLITION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350572

• 2 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING CLUBHOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CHANGING ROOMS, A MEETING ROOM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850141

• 9 Aug 2017Refused

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED PERLOCATION AREA (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE ON SITE AND ADJACENT AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751247

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roughan.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1959 (ZIP).

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. Donegal.

Name

Roughan

Area

268,676 m² (26.87 ha, 66.39 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh South electoral division: 2,156 people in 853 households; 64% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolatee, Drumboy, Edenmore, Lifford, Lifford Bog, Wood Island

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.