# Dernaskeagh, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kildrumsherdan, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 807,239 m² (80.72 ha, 199.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 42,760 m² (4.28 ha, 10.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kildrumsherdan, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/kildrumsherdan.md - Barony: Tullygarvey - Electoral division: Rakenny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 440 people lived in 170 households in the Rakenny electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5326 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20680 - Centre: latitude 54.054142, longitude -7.170808 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dernaskeagh, from 226 m² to 446,223 m² (44.62 ha, 110.26 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5131840: 446,223 m² (44.62 ha, 110.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131840.md - Parcel 445726: 175,411 m² (17.54 ha, 43.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445726.md - Parcel 445727: 82,753 m² (8.28 ha, 20.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445727.md - Parcel 485891: 55,555 m² (5.56 ha, 13.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485891.md - Parcel 5943972: 29,965 m² (3 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5943972.md - Parcel 476298: 6,373 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476298.md - Parcel 469455: 553 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/469455.md - Parcel 5943963: 226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5943963.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Dernaskeagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dernaskeagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV017-024: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV017-024----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rathkenny Orange Hall, Orange Hall, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 40401719, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40401719. 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, registry number 40401743, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40401743. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dernaskeagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/dernaskeagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/dernaskeagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/dernaskeagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dernaskeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cornagarrow: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cornagarrow.md - Drumnagran: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumnagran.md - Drumsheil: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumsheil.md - Largy or Forthenry: https://everytownland.com/cavan/largy-or-forthenry.md - Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullaghboy-21635.md - Rakenny: https://everytownland.com/cavan/rakenny.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/dernaskeagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/dernaskeagh