Roranna

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roranna, from 36 m² to 244,128 m² (24.41 ha, 60.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Roranna 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.

• 27 Nov 2017Conditional

  reopen section of the Ulster Canal from Lough Erne to Clones Town of a total distance of approximately 11.6km. The construction of approx. 2.7km of new canal section, 1.6m deep with average bed width of 8m and surface water width of 18m. The provision of a vehicular towpath and pedestrian pathway access along the canal section. The construction of a new road bridge and road layout at the site of the existing bridge known as Drumsloe Swing Bridge. The refurbishment of the original canal bridge known as Kellys Bridge at Clonlura, including the alterations to the existing under-path to heritage approved standards. Construction of a mooring at Teehill (Clones Town).

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 179011

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 Roranna.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roranna.

Architectural heritage

• Ard na Gaoithe, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1920, having full-height gabled slightly projecting entrance bay, flanked by canted bay windows to front (north-west) elevation, two-bay gable elevations, and addition to rear. Pitched slate roof, with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and polychrome brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, having painted brick block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings mainly, with round-headed window to first floor of entrance projection, with render reveals and one-over-one-pane timber sliding sash windows. Double-leaf steel gate to north-east, flanked by square-plan painted masonry piers with panelled detailing and decorative caps with finials.

• Orange Hall, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Orange hall, built c.1860, having lean-to porch to front (south-east) elevation, two-bay gable ends, and two-storey gable-fronted return to rear to centre of rear elevation. Not in use. Half-hipped slate roof, with decorative timber bargeboards, rendered ridge tiles, and rendered chimneystack. Coursed roughly squared rubble limestone walls, having rusticated block-and-start quoins. Square-headed dressed stone window openings with dressed stone sills, openings blocked to first floor and boarded up to ground floor. Fixed timber window to porch. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation of porch, having stone lintel and timber battened door. Metal-framed windows to north-east gable. Gauged dressed stone square-headed door opening to south-west elevation of rear return, timber battened door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roranna.

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 Roranna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Roranna · Ruaranna

Area

552,947 m² (55.29 ha, 136.64 acres)

Civil parish

Drummully, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Drummully, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drummully electoral division: 136 people in 44 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonfad, Clonlura, Clonoony, Clonoula, Drumsloe

Placenames

Roranna 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.