Ramonan
Townland in the civil parish of Castlerahan, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 78.4 ha
- 194 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 4,082 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ramonan, from 167 m² to 87,904 m² (8.79 ha, 21.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Sport and Recreation (Active open space)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Public Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Dec 2025N/a
for improvement works to Castlerahan GAA’s existing car park. The development will include for the creation of accessible parking spaces, pavement resurfacing, perimeter fencing, floodlighting, landscaping with biodiversity elements, drainage works, provision of oil separation, modification of entrances from public road, erection of entrance gates, creation of pedestrian access and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560742
12 Feb 2024Conditional
for the formation of a new GAA pitch on lands currently used for agricultural purposes. The development will include for regrading of the lands, perimeter fencing, lighting, forming a biodiversity walking trail, drainage works, provision of carparking, erection of goal posts, erection of ball stop netting, creation of new site boundaries and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460043
4 Jan 2024N/a
for formation of a new GAA pitch on lands currently used for agricultural purposes. The development will include for regrading of the lands, perimeter fencing, lighting, forming a biodiversity walking trail, drainage works, provision of carparking, erection of goal posts, erection of ball stop netting, creation of new site boundaries and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460008
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ramonan.
Recorded monuments
- CV038-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, waterlogged fosse, poorly preserved from NNE-E-SW. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at ENE represents original entrance. Internal area densely overgrown with vegetation. 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 Ramonan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ramonan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ramonan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Ramonan
- Area
- 783,775 m² (78.38 ha, 193.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlerahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Ballyjamesduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyjamesduff electoral division: 3,548 people in 1,187 households; 59% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloggagh, Derrylurgan, Moodoge, Rassan or Corglass
- Placenames
- Ramonan 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.