Rooaun

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooaun, from 5 m² to 125,762 m² (12.58 ha, 31.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Rooaun 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to erect a domestic garage and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2663

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain changes from that previously approved under planning reference number PD/06/119 which include the following: (a) conservatory annex to the side of an existing dwelling (b) additional floor areas on ground and first floor plans (c) elevational changes to all elevations of the existing dwelling (d) revised garage design and location on site (e) fuel storage tank (f) revised location of the existing treatment system and percolation area (g) revised site boundaries as constructed (h) along with all other associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660099

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for the upgrade of an existing wastewater treatment system with the installation of a new sewerage treatment unit and percolation area, along with all other associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560603

• 13 Aug 2025N/a

  Retention Permission to retain changes from that previously approved under planning reference number PD/06/119 which include the following; (a) conservatory annex to the side of an existing dwelling (b) additional floor areas on ground and first floor plans (c) elevational changes to all elevations of the existing dwelling (d) revised garage design and location on site (e) fuel storage tank (f) revised location of the existing treatment system and percolation area (g) revised site boundaries as constructed (h) along with all other associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560387

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct an entrance and driveway to existing dwellinghouse site at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560186

• 2 Apr 2025N/a

  Permission to construct an entrance and driveway to existing dwellinghouse site.

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560144

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  for retention and completion of attic development to bedrooms, en-suite and store to dwelling previously granted planning permission under P&D Ref 01/1588 at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21166

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilglass And Grange Loughs 000608

Recorded monuments

• RO023-147 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge overlooking the S end of Kilglass Lough, c. 550m to the W. Circular area (diam. 32.3m E-W; 30.2m N-S) planted with deciduous trees which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.4-6.2m; int. H 0.8-1.1m; ext. H 1.2-1.6m) that is reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) SSW-WSW and incorporated into a road bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.6m) SE-SSW. The fosse (Wth of top 6.3-6.7m; Wth of base 2.3-3.2m; D1.1m at N) survives W-N-SE and is truncated by a W-E field bank SE-SSW. There is no identifiable original entrance. 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 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

At the centre of the townland of Rooaun, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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. Roscommon.

Name

Rooaun

Area

967,087 m² (96.71 ha, 238.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Kilglass South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

354 people lived in 136 households in the Kilglass South electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamannan, Carrownskeheen, Glen, Kilbeg, Killastalliff, Tully

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.