Roran

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roran, from 173 m² to 310,511 m² (31.05 ha, 76.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Roran 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  1. As-built bungalow dwelling house which differs from previously approved (planning ref. 03510096); 2. As-built detached garage/store; 3. As-built storage shed, and all ancillary site works thereto

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2461136

• 24 May 2022Conditional

  a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto.

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260245

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  conversion of part of existing agricultural hay shed into an internal games room ancillary to existing self-catering holiday cottages and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21622

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 Roran.

Recorded monuments

• TN007-015 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Depicted as a small circular platform-type earthwork on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map, but not indicated on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 09 January 2012

• TN007-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained rock outcrop in undulating countryside. Depicted on the 1843 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure, not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The W half of the enclosure is shown upstanding as a curving bank on the revised 1901 ed. OS 25-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 09 January 2012

• TN007-079 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A possible enclosure (dims. c. 60m N-S) identified as a cropmark on Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure is defined by a fosse but is only visible from S-W-N. A field boundary runs roughly N-S through the possible E side of the enclosure and the enclosure is not visible in the corridor along the W side of the field boundary or E of the field boundary where there is a different crop. See attached photograph: TN007-079----_01 Image © Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Roran.

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 Roran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Roran · An Rórán

Area

2,033,198 m² (203.32 ha, 502.41 acres)

Civil parish

Terryglass, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Terryglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Terryglass electoral division: 575 people in 220 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymassy, Cappanasmear, Crossanagh, Garryard, Lacken, Muckloonmodderee, Tombrickane

Placenames

Roran 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.