Roughan

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roughan, from 1,341 m² to 142,276 m² (14.23 ha, 35.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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.

• 4 Sept 2025Conditional

  RETENTION FOR DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF SIDE (NORTHERN) GABLE WALL OF COTTAGE, INCLUDING NEW WINDOW AND DOOR OPENINGS AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION WORKS TO INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGE DORMER TO THE REAR ROOF OF THE COTTAGE INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY RENOVATIONS / ALTERATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 24/62127

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561516

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560840

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY RENOVATIONS / ALTERATIONS, (2) DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF SIDE (NORTHERN) GABLE WALL TO EXISTING COTTAGE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462127

• 7 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF TWO POULTRY SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460112

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

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 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. Donegal.

Name

Roughan · Ruachán

Area

565,542 m² (56.55 ha, 139.75 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killymasny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killymasny electoral division: 512 people in 166 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardahee, Ballyconnelly, Brownhall, Kirkneedy, Milltown

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.