Roan

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roan, from 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 399,687 m² (39.97 ha, 98.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Roan 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.

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  a shipping container/domestic store and PERMISSION for single storey extensions to the sides and rear of existing storey and a half dwelling house, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460621

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 Roan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roan.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1870, with single-storey extension to rear and flat-topped windbreak to entrance. Lobby-entry plan. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pebble-dashed walls to first floor and rear and smooth rendered to ground and gables, with render quoins and plinth to front. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills to front elevation and replacement uPVC windows to rear. Former five-bay single-storey vernacular house with loft, built c.1800, to southwest, now used as farm building and having lean-to extension to south. Pitched slate roof with carved timber bargeboards, windbreak with lean-to slate roof, rubble sandstone walls, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills and retaining interior features including wide hearth with iron crane and wheel bellows. Single-storey rubble outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to site.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Roan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Roan · An Ruán

Area

482,547 m² (48.25 ha, 119.24 acres)

Civil parish

Upperchurch, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Upperchurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Upperchurch electoral division: 311 people in 115 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanaleigh, Cooga, Curraghduff, Gortnaskehy, Knockmehill, Shevry

Placenames

Roan 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.