Cloonroughan
Cloonroughan is a townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 668241
- Area
- 4,348 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cloonroughan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 174.1 ha
- 430 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 13,846 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonroughan, from 719 m² to 279,889 m² (27.99 ha, 69.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonroughan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Apr 2026N/a
Permission for (i) construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage, (ii) installation of tertiary treatment system & infiltration/treatment area, plus all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660178
23 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of single storey dwelling house and install new waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460448
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonroughan.
Recorded monuments
- RO022-055002 Crannog
Description
Marked as a rectangular island (dims. c. 20m x c. 20m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and now situated at the NW tip of a peninsula (dims. c. 200m NW-SE; c. 80m NE-SW) projecting from the S shore of Clooncullaan Lough North (dims. c. 600m E-W; c. 150m N-S at W to c. 300m N-S at E). Circular scrub-covered and stoney area (diam. 26m) built on a marl base and attached to the peninsula at E. Possible crannog (RO022-055003-) is c. 30m to the E, and possible crannog (RO022-055004-) is c. 110m to the S. Animal bones were found on the E shore of the peninsula c. 200m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-071 Crannog
Description
At the N end of the W shore of Lough Feeny (dims. c. 330m NW-SE; c. 170m NE-SW) and separated from the shore by a shallow basin (Wth c. 10m). Subcircular grass-covered mound (dims. 18m N-S; 13m E-W; H 1m), with a sloping shore (Wth 6-7m) at E and S. There is no evidence of artificial construction. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-148001 Church
Description
Described by J. O'Donovan as a possession of the Third Order of Franciscans (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 19), and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Described locally as a rectangular structure (dims c. 15m x c. 6m; H c.1.5m) with a pointed doorway in the N wall which was almost completely buried. It was removed c. 1985 when burials were found. The site is now occupied by a shed, but a low scarp (H 0.2-0.8m) commencing c. 20m E of the church site and curving S and W (dims c. 35m N-S may indicate an ecclesiastical enclosure (RO022-148002-). A well, c. 50m SSE of the church site and now removed, was not known locally as a holy well (RO022-148004-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-148002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
Situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope, A low scarp (H 0.2-0.8m) commencing c. 20m E of the church site (RO022-148001-) and curving S and W (dims c. 35m N-S) may indicate an ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-148003 Burial
Description
Situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. According to local information burials were found c. 1985 when the church (RO022-148001-) was removed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-148004 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Described by J. O'Donovan writing in the 1830s as a possession of the Third Order of Franciscans (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 19), and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. A well, c. 50m SSE of the church site (RO022-148001-) and now removed, was not known locally as a holy well. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-154 Fulacht fia
Description
On flat ground at the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered stoney mound (diam. 7.2m N-S; 7m E-W; max. H 0.7m) with an indentation (diam. 2m) at S. It was removed since 1995. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonroughan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonroughan, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonroughan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonroughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonroughan
- Area
- 1,740,871 m² (174.09 ha, 430.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Rossmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 169 people lived in 58 households in the Rossmore electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooncullaan, Killeen East, Killeen West, Killynagh Beg, Killynagh More, Laghtcausk, Lurgan, Ross More East
- Placenames
- Cloonroughan 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.