Rakane

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakane, from 115 m² to 245,014 m² (24.5 ha, 60.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Rakane 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.

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  to erect fully serviced 2 storey extension to side & rear of existing dwelling, upgrade sewerage treatment facilities, alterations to elevations & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21775

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 Rakane.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.4m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse infilled from WSW-N-SE. Break in bank at S with accompanying causeway 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

• CV017-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by the remains of a substantial earthen bank and slight traces of a fosse identifiable only at WNW. Both enclosing elements have been levelled from NW-E-S. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

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

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 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 Rakane.

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

Name

Rakane

Area

1,259,092 m² (125.91 ha, 311.13 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Tullyvin East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullyvin East electoral division: 609 people in 171 households; 90% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cordoagh Glebe Upper, Cordoagh Lower, Corravoggy, Drumeltan, Drumhose, Drumhurt, Long, Tonyin, Tullyard

Placenames

Rakane 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.