# Rakenny, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Drung, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan; in Irish Ráth Cionaoith.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,347,805 m² (134.78 ha, 333.05 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 37,491 m² (3.75 ha, 9.26 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drung, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/drung.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/5323
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21763
- Centre: latitude 54.043166, longitude -7.17636 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakenny, from 232 m² to 304,363 m² (30.44 ha, 75.21 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 6144838: 304,363 m² (30.44 ha, 75.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6144838.md
- Parcel 5206160: 275,783 m² (27.58 ha, 68.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5206160.md
- Parcel 5182392: 186,917 m² (18.69 ha, 46.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182392.md
- Parcel 437593: 99,741 m² (9.97 ha, 24.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/437593.md
- Parcel 474929: 64,071 m² (6.41 ha, 15.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474929.md
- Parcel 4121925: 61,484 m² (6.15 ha, 15.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4121925.md
- Parcel 487270: 54,345 m² (5.43 ha, 13.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487270.md
- Parcel 487269: 48,354 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487269.md
- Parcel 487271: 40,604 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487271.md
- Parcel 477072: 39,591 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477072.md
- Parcel 474928: 35,391 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474928.md
- Parcel 443646: 22,088 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443646.md
- Parcel 435203: 19,102 m² (1.91 ha, 4.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435203.md
- Parcel 2635616: 8,252 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2635616.md
- Parcel 4950025: 6,741 m² (0.67 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950025.md
- Parcel 473209: 6,656 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473209.md
- Parcel 2996958: 3,572 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2996958.md
- Parcel 434140: 1,674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/434140.md
- Parcel 5206944: 621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5206944.md
- Parcel 5182411: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182411.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rakenny 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)

6 applications, newest first.

- 21 Aug 2025, Cavan County Council 2560488: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to retain a single storey extension to the side, front porch alterations and elevational changes to existing dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560488/0
- 25 Mar 2025, Cavan County Council 2560125: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 1) To construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, 2) To Retain alterations and elevational changes to existing dwelling and front porch area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560125/0
- 2 Jul 2024, Cavan County Council 2460299: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a new part bungalow, part two storey dwelling, domestic garage/carport, wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460299/0
- 25 Apr 2024, Cavan County Council 2460171: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to extend an existing dwelling with a single-storey porch. The site works to include a replacement wastewater treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460171/0
- 14 Mar 2024, Cavan County Council 2420: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for construction of a two storey dwelling domestic garage/carport, wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2420/0
- 2 Jun 2017, Cavan County Council 17235: N/a. Permission. to retain (a) existing four bay slatted shed with straw bedded area and slatted tank section, (b) existing six bay slatted shed incorporating feed passage and cubicles, slatted tank section, concrete aprons and associated site works. This development is within the curtilage of Rathkenny House (CV16017), stables and gate lodge which are protected structures and are listed on the national inventory for architectural heritage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17235/0

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## 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 Rakenny.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CV017-060: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV017-060----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 House, country house, 1825–1830, Regional interest, registry number 40401632, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40401632. Detached Regency-style three-bay two-storey country house, built 1829, with astylar pedimented breakfront and advanced end piers. Hipped slate roof with tall rendered stacks and terracotta pots behind blocking course over cornice and ashlar frieze with central pediment. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls, formerly rendered, with sandstone ashlar quoins, and limestone ashlar plinth course to height of entrance steps. Ashlar sandstone block-and-start window surrounds to upper floor windows. Ashlar limestone surrounds to ground floor windows with panels under sills and bracketed entablatures. Six-over-six sliding-sash timber windows. Bracketed entablature motif elaborated over the entrance door and side lights having six-over-four timber sash windows, limestone architrave of door contrasts to sandstone of side-lights. Four-bay side elevations with advanced centre bays and end piers, bracketed entablatures over ground floor windows. Rear three-bay elevation facing river with bracketed entablatures to ground-floor windows and full-height pilasters between the bays. Lower two-storey return to north-west elevation. Retaining interior features and fittings. Stable and farmyards beyond to the west ranged along the river. Set in an older demesne straddling the Annalee River, sited across river from earlier house of which only the terraced walled gardens survive. Gardens set out in terraces with central path framed by yew trees reached by concrete footbridge in central axis. Gothic-style Georgian tea house aligned with central path faced in red brick with rusticated quoins and battlemented parapet with limestone copings over a wide plat band. Gardens originally aligned on the previous house open onto the river to the south with stone quay walls to river bank.
- Rathkenny House, stables, 1825–1835, Regional interest, registry number 40401637, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40401637. Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey stable block, built c.1830, with later single-storey lean-to adjoining to the west, tall walls to south and east creating a courtyard. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and oversailing barge stones, rendered brick chimneystack with string courses, cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone rubble walls with brick surrounds to square-headed window and door openings. Ground floor windows and door recessed within wider elliptical-headed brick arches. Some replacement casement windows, some louvred windows to upper floor, with stone sills. Limestone ashlar gate piers on plinth with square cap and plainly treated gate stops. Set beside the Annalee River to the west of Rathkenny House within the historic demesne
- Rathkenny House, gate lodge, 1835–1845, Regional interest, registry number 40401720, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40401720. Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1840. Pyramidal slate roof with clay ridge tiles oversailing eaves having pared carved brackets. Chimneystack rises from rear wall. Red brick walls. Square-headed entrance door and lattice paned casement window.

## 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 Rakenny, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rakenny.
- 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/rakenny.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/rakenny.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/rakenny.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rakenny 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)

- Corglass: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corglass-20432.md
- Corravogy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corravogy.md
- Dernaskeagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/dernaskeagh.md
- Drumherriff South: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumherriff-south.md
- Drumnagran: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumnagran.md
- Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullaghboy-21635.md
- Nutfield: https://everytownland.com/cavan/nutfield.md
- Tullavally: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tullavally.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.

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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/rakenny
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