Rooghaun

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooghaun, from 183 m² to 128,533 m² (12.85 ha, 31.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Rooghaun 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.

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) To construction an extension to the existing dwelling house to include renovation and attic conversion (2) To upgrade the existing septic tank to a treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 102.46 sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260852

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  for change of use of existing dwelling to crèche use and to retain temporary prefab office and minor elevation change to front of dwellinghouse. Gross floor area crèche 153m2, prefab 11m2

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18810

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 248.2sqm., + 39.9 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17426

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 Rooghaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-262 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 250, no. 131) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 24.4m) defined by an ‘utterly denuded’ bank (Wth 0.92m; H 0.15m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 April 2018

• GA104-263 Standing stone
  Description

  On a slight ridge in pastureland. When inspected in February 1983 this standing stone consisted of a badly eroded limestone slab (H 2m; Wth 0.66m; T 0.29m) that was rectangular in plan and aligned E-W. A number of solution holes pierced it. Small stones formed a revetment (Wth 0.2m) around its base. Not visible on current OSi aerial imagery, which indicates that field boundaries in the area have subsequently been cleared. (McCaffrey 1952, 250, no. 132) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2019

• GA114-181 Cairn - radial-stone cairn
  Description

  Situated in level pasture-land this monument is not indicated on any edition of the OS maps. Three large thorn trees grow on the site. Discovered in 2011 (pers. comm. J. O’Sullivan) the remains consist of a series of radially-set stones indicating a circle (c. 16m internal diameter N-S). Only the E half of the circle survives and comprises 16 stones, a number of which are partly displaced or leaning. The stones (averaging 0.50m – 0.70m high) are set 1m – 1.60m apart with the most common distance between them being c. 1.40m. There is evidence of cairn infill between a number of the stones. A single large stone lies on the ground surface on the W side of the monument and may once have been an upright. The interior is grass-covered and stony under foot which suggests that there may have been internal cairn material. A large, raised grass-covered stony area is present on the W part of the monument though whether this is an original feature, is the result of former land clearance or represents the destroyed remnants of the W component of the monument is unknown. The remains are best interpreted as a radial-stone cairn, a type of monument that is generally found associated with the later Bronze Age stone circle complex in SW Ireland. Only twenty examples are known and there is a second example in the county at Cartron South (GA125-032----) some 23km to the SE. GA114-181----_01.jpg View of the monument from the east. GA114-181----_02.jpg View of the stones from the centre of the perimeter at the east, looking southwest. GA114-181----_02.jpg View of the stones from the centre of the perimeter at the east, looking northwest. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 June 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Rooghaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rooghaun · Ruachán

Area

1,025,570 m² (102.56 ha, 253.42 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ardrahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

612 people lived in 201 households in the Ardrahan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrahan North, Ballybaun, Ballyboy, Barratreana, Caherateige, Caherdaly, Castletaylor South, Cregaclare Demesne, Lackan, Toberacreggaun

Placenames

Rooghaun 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.