Dernaskeagh

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dernaskeagh, from 226 m² to 446,223 m² (44.62 ha, 110.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Dernaskeagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Dernaskeagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Dernaskeagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated within a plantation of coniferous trees. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 42m) enclosed by slight traces of an earthen bank. A modern bank with external trench has been built against the lower portion of the scarp. Wide break in scarp at E probably represents original entrance. 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

Architectural heritage

• Rathkenny Orange Hall, Orange Hall, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey Orange Hall, built c.1880, with advanced central porch, and recent lean-to to south-west gable. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks to gables, plain timber bargeboards to porch, and replacement metal rainwater goods. Roughly coursed sandstone rubble walls with dressed sandstone block quoins, claw scraped and feathered at margins. Plain render to rear elevation and to porch. Brick surrounds to windows openings with flat arches, stone sills, and plain reveals. Replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from the road.

• Rathkenny House, summerhouse, walled garden, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached rectangular-plan three-bay single-storey tea house in Georgian Gothic style, built c.1730. Red brick walls with rusticated ashlar quoins and a battlemented parapet of brick merlons over a limestone platband. Tall lancet windows flanking central pointed arch doorway with timber battened tympanum over double-leaf doors with twin cusped pointed arched panels above short flight of limestone steps. Set between low quadrant walls terminating in urn-topped brick piers. Axially arranged terraced walled garden of earlier date, and approached by a metal footbridge on the central axis. Garden descends to river in three terraces terminating at a retaining quay wall level to the ground. Side walls descend to river with terminating octagonal ashlar piers with base at quay side having cornice and surmounting urn. Central path with flights of steps flanked by urn-topped brick piers and Irish yew trees rising to the summer house on the back wall of the garden. Located within Rathkenny Demesne on the opposite bank of the Annalee River to Rathkenny House.

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 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 Dernaskeagh.

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

Name

Dernaskeagh

Area

807,239 m² (80.72 ha, 199.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Rakenny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rakenny electoral division: 440 people in 170 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagarrow, Drumnagran, Drumsheil, Largy or Forthenry, Mullaghboy, Rakenny

Placenames

Dernaskeagh 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.