Dooghan
Dooghan is a townland in the civil parish of Drum, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 225.5 ha
- 557 acres
- Land parcels
- 142
- registered freehold, median 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
142 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooghan, from 7 m² to 187,220 m² (18.72 ha, 46.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dooghan 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
12 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission to construct an extension to dwelling, use existing entrance, new boundary fence, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24146
5 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission to construct single storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24126
29 Sept 2022Conditional
Retention Permission for: 1. Temporary container/ bolted down shed to rear of existing building, for the duration of 2 years; 2. As constructed entrance that differs to that granted in PD/18/45; 3. As constructed elevations that differ to that granted in PD/18/45. Permission to: 4. Construct new extension to rear of existing building, new extension will replace container/ bolted down shed, and all site ancillary development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22530
14 Jun 2018Conditional
Planning permission to erect a domestic shed/garage and to construct ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18285
15 Feb 2018Refused
to erect domestic storage shed/garage coupled with ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1857
6 Feb 2018Conditional
To demolish existing commercial premises and to construct new commercial premises and connect to existing septic tank and services on site at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1845
8 Nov 2017Conditional
for erection of dwelling house and domestic garage, with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17454
11 Jan 2017Conditional
to demolish part of existing house, extend & refurbish remaining portion of house, erect garage and provide new wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 178
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 Dooghan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dooghan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooghan.
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 Dooghan, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dooghan.
- 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 Dooghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Dooghan
- Area
- 2,254,808 m² (225.48 ha, 557.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Thomastown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 777 people lived in 264 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkeenan, Cloonark, Cloonillan, Derrylahan, Liberty, Thomastown Demesne
- Placenames
- Dooghan 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.