# Rooaun, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Ruán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 303,872 m² (30.39 ha, 75.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,878 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Roscrea, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/roscrea.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Gorteen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Gorteen electoral division: 291 people in 101 households; 90% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41865 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181060 - Centre: latitude 52.986428, longitude -7.77166 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooaun, from 2,129 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 128,432 m² (12.84 ha, 31.74 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 295226: 128,432 m² (12.84 ha, 31.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295226.md - Parcel 271672: 109,574 m² (10.96 ha, 27.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271672.md - Parcel 292647: 54,135 m² (5.41 ha, 13.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292647.md - Parcel 280332: 5,621 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280332.md - Parcel 277974: 4,663 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277974.md - Parcel 5285486: 2,129 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5285486.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rooaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Rooaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rooaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rooaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rooaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Rooaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rooaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rooaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rooaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rooaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghody: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghody.md - Dungar: https://everytownland.com/offaly/dungar.md - Fancroft: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fancroft.md - Gorraun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorraun-180722.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rooaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/rooaun