# Rafian, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan; in Irish Ráth Fiáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 648,713 m² (64.87 ha, 160.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,052 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumlane, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/drumlane.md - Barony: Loughtee Lower - Electoral division: Kilconny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 643 people lived in 226 households in the Kilconny electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5047 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21748 - Centre: latitude 54.096455, longitude -7.483588 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafian, from 710 m² to 138,130 m² (13.81 ha, 34.13 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 464950: 138,130 m² (13.81 ha, 34.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464950.md - Parcel 436254: 120,774 m² (12.08 ha, 29.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436254.md - Parcel 477856: 68,712 m² (6.87 ha, 16.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477856.md - Parcel 469627: 52,802 m² (5.28 ha, 13.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469627.md - Parcel 453382: 48,831 m² (4.88 ha, 12.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/453382.md - Parcel 477286: 32,787 m² (3.28 ha, 8.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477286.md - Parcel 469874: 32,618 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469874.md - Parcel 4180269: 19,689 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4180269.md - Parcel 467709: 17,383 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467709.md - Parcel 464941: 15,192 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464941.md - Parcel 486934: 11,660 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486934.md - Parcel 486482: 7,956 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486482.md - Parcel 4825401: 7,727 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4825401.md - Parcel 477950: 6,207 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477950.md - Parcel 440497: 5,897 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/440497.md - Parcel 483387: 5,126 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483387.md - Parcel 481993: 4,758 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481993.md - Parcel 455535: 3,479 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455535.md - Parcel 487495: 3,267 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487495.md - Parcel 452812: 3,229 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/452812.md - Parcel 447245: 3,209 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447245.md - Parcel 457568: 2,827 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/457568.md - Parcel 461519: 2,555 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/461519.md - Parcel 482062: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/482062.md - Parcel 5207736: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207736.md - Parcel 4825400: 1,387 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4825400.md - Parcel 469875: 915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/469875.md - Parcel 447246: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/447246.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rafian 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 5 Jun 2026, Cavan County Council 2660317: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to decommission an existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system along with associated percolation along with associated percolation area and construction of a new vehicular entrance to the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660317/0 - 17 Apr 2026, Cavan County Council 2660194: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a single storey porch extension to existing two-storey dwelling and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660194/0 - 15 Mar 2023, Cavan County Council 23106: Conditional. Permission. extend existing semi-detached cottage with single storey extension to rear and side with flat roof link, new effluent treatment system and percolation and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23106/0 - 22 Dec 2022, Cavan County Council 22531: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain alterations to existing elevations and site boundaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22531/0 - 11 Apr 2018, Cavan County Council 18151: Conditional. Permission. to construct 1 no. free range poultry house together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18151/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, site code 000007, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000007 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rafian. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rafian. ## 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 Rafian, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rafian. - 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/rafian.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/rafian.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/rafian.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rafian 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) - Cornagrow: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cornagrow-20494.md - Drumacon: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumacon.md - Drumbrughas: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbrughas-20829.md - Drummany Montiaghs: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummany-montiaghs.md - Lisnamaine or Sycamore Fields: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisnamaine-or-sycamore-fields.md - Mullanaffrin: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullanaffrin.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/rafian - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/rafian