Racraveen

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racraveen, from 579 m² to 331,569 m² (33.16 ha, 81.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Racraveen 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.

• 7 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct an agricultural shed which will consist of an automatic milking area, dairy, cubicles and slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22231

• 1 Mar 2017Conditional

  to renovate and extend, to form dormer type extension, existing cottage; new site entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1769

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 Racraveen.

Recorded monuments

• CV038-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Situated on W shoulder of a low drumlin ridge. Not visible at ground level. 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

• CV038-055 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated at a bend in a wide river which encircles the NE half of the site. Elsewhere enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse now identifiable only from SE-S-WNW. The motte comprises a high, steep-sided, flat-topped oval earthen mound (H 3m - 5.75m; dims of base c. 38m NW-SE; c. 27m NE-SW), the summit of which (int. dims 32.4m NW-SE; 23.3m NE-SW) is enclosed by the remains of a low earthen bank. Foundations of a rectangular stone building (int. dims c. 8m E-W; c. 6m N-S) occur on the summit. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SW represents original entrance. Traces of possible rectangular bailey to SW. Davies (1947a, 87) speculated that this may be the location of a Nugent castle noted in historical documents. 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: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Racraveen.

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

Name

Racraveen · Ráth Chnáimhín

Area

429,227 m² (42.92 ha, 106.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbride electoral division: 998 people in 338 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghanna, Gallonreagh, Kilbride, Mountnugent, Pollareagh

Placenames

Racraveen 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.