Rooaun

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooaun, from 785 m² to 167,928 m² (16.79 ha, 41.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

• G1Open Space / Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  for development. The proposal is a modification/optimisation of the permitted solar array development (Planning Application Ref: 17/427) to include the provision of an ancillary battery energy storage facility with a capacity of up to 10MW and all associated site works. This modification to the permitted development provides for an updated site layout and is also intended to provide for the replacement/superseding of Condition No's: 1, 2a & 17 of Planning Application Ref: 17/427. Gross floor space of proposed works: 186.06 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 192033

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  for development of a solar PV farm to export electricity to the national grid. The solar panel array will consist of up to approximately 31070 square metres of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 2 electrical control buildings, 2 number inverter cabins temporary construction area and ancillary facilities, boundary security fence, a site entrance and access track, CCTV security system, and all associated works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 94.94 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17427

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rooaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1348 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rooaun · An Ruán

Area

576,309 m² (57.63 ha, 142.41 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,361 people lived in 2,616 households in the Ballinasloe Urban electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashford, Ballygortagh (Co. Roscommon), Cleaghgarve, Creagh

Placenames

Rooaun 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.