Roran

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roran, from 311 m² to 207,823 m² (20.78 ha, 51.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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.

• 22 Apr 2023Conditional

  the construction of (i) milking parlour, collecting yard/ drafting yard, office, meal bin, storage, flow channels, water tank, underground effluent tank (ii) loose shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360259

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  construction of slatted shed with underground effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600725

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  two-storey dwelling, garage, entrance, sewerage treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600804

• 3 Jul 2017N/a

  two-storey dwelling, garage, entrance, sewerage treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600740

• 22 Jun 2017N/a

  two-storey dwelling, garage, entrance, sewerage treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600698

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

• TN025-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the E-facing slope of a deep ravine in an upland area. The barely discernible outline of a much degraded enclosure (diam. 24m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5) and intersected by a field boundary at N on an E-W axis. No other features visible. 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: 22 September 2008

• TN025-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a deep ravine to the SW. A circular area (diam. 20m approx.) enclosed by an internal fosse (Wth 2.5m) and external bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) with a possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. The SW sector of the site has been quarried and dense cover of vegetation on the site makes detailed examination impossible. 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: 22 September 2008

• TN025-050 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  Situated on the E-facing slope of a steep ravine in an upland area. A semicircular area (30m E-W) enclosed by a wide earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m) and an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3m) with the steep slope of the ravine forming the E boundary of the enclosure. No entrance feature visible. 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: 22 September 2008

• TN025-085 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of poorly drained land in an upland area. Described (OPW file, 1969) as a site of no archaeological significance and probably removed during a subsequent land improvement scheme. 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: 22 September 2008

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, 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

1,171,037 m² (117.1 ha, 289.37 acres)

Civil parish

Templeachally, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Ballina, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballina electoral division: 3,414 people in 1,158 households; 77% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteenoe, Ballyea North, Ballyea South, Curraghmore, Glenacre, Gortlassabrien

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.