Rooghan

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooghan, from 56 m² to 174,436 m² (17.44 ha, 43.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Rooghan 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 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new access road facilitating access to existing forestry plantation. The proposed access road shall have a bell-mouth entrance at public road and an internal turn table together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18419

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 Rooghan.

Recorded monuments

• SL027-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on the summit of a N-S ridge. A raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.5m) which is truncated by a field boundary SSE-SSW. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is at SSW. An external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.6m) is evident all round but is encroached upon by a forest plantation SSE-SSW. An E-W field boundary crosses the N half of the interior. The perimeter of the rath is partially overgrown with gorse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-083 Hut site
  Description

  In a forest plantation, at the top of a hill. The hut had been inspected in 1982, when the surrounding area had been deep ploughed for tree planting. It was then described as a circular area (diam. 8.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 0.8m at top, 1.5m at base; H 1m) with a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at E; some stones were noted in the base of the bank (SMR (1989) file). This is a National Monument (no 10070) in state ownership. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of revised upload: 1 October 2019

• SL027-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a young coniferous plantation, on a level area just below the summit of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 29m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a possible external fosse. The bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) is generally low internally. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at E, infilled with stones. There is a gap (Wth 2m) in the bank at NE. A band of darker vegetation (Wth 3m) surrounding the bank probably indicates a silted-up external fosse. A field boundary truncates the line of the fosse at NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-100 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of a ridge. A raised D-shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) W-E and on the straight S side (L c. 25m E-W) by a field boundary. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a pentagonal enclosure with linear sides, the longest being the southern. No visible remains of the enclosure on the S side of the field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rooghan, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Rooghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rooghan · Ruachán

Area

3,091,358 m² (309.14 ha, 763.89 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Drumcolumb, the unit of the census

Census 2022

273 people lived in 106 households in the Drumcolumb electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Glen, Lavally, Mullaghmore, Tunnagh

Placenames

Rooghan 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.