Countenan

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Countenan, from 329 m² to 646,720 m² (64.67 ha, 159.81 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 Countenan 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.

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, form new entrance of existing laneway, connect to existing public mains sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1796

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 Countenan.

Recorded monuments

• CV021-021001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Conjoined raths encircled by a modern field boundary and separated by a fosse. Both raths comprise raised areas enclosed by a bank and fosse. Rath at N is oval in plan (int. dims. 38.5m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE). Break in bank at N probably marks original entrance. Just outside of the entrance the level of the fosse drops accutely from W down to E. The S rath is circular in plan (int. diam. 29.8m). Bank barely discernible over the interior throughout most of its course. Fosse is only identifiable from SE-S-SW and at NE. Wide break in bank at WSW with no visible remains of accompanying causeway probably represents original entrance. Both raths have been planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV021-021002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Countenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Countenan

Area

941,142 m² (94.11 ha, 232.56 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Stradone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stradone electoral division: 855 people in 294 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corfeehone, Corgreagh, Drumcrow, Lisatoo, Raheelagh, Raskill

Placenames

Countenan 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.