Rooghaun

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooghaun, from 55 m² to 92,061 m² (9.21 ha, 22.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  construction of a change of dwelling house type from that granted in planning reference number P21/1015 and associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2645

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolition works to existing dwelling, (2) Construction of a new single-storey extension to an existing dwelling, (3) alterations to existing elevations, (4) Construction of a new domestic garage, and (5) Upgrade of existing septic tank to proprietary wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560940

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22894

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211015

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

• MA100-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on summit of ridge. Oval-shaped area (38.5m N-S; 43m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.7m), with external fosse (D 0.5m). Bank has been disturbed in a number of places. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 209. Date of upload: 25 January 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

At the centre of the townland of Rooghaun, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly 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. Mayo.

Name

Rooghaun · Ruachán

Area

546,617 m² (54.66 ha, 135.07 acres)

Civil parish

Burriscarra, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Burriscarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

453 people lived in 166 households in the Burriscarra electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownagreggaun, Drumnashinnagh, Knockacurreen, Lawarreen, Muckloon or Moorehall, Rinaneel

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.