Ranrenagh
Townland in the civil parish of Denn, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 76.6 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ranrenagh, from 699 m² to 283,491 m² (28.35 ha, 70.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ranrenagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jul 2024Conditional
to erect a fully serviced bungalow dwelling with attic accommodation, detached domestic garage, entrance, sewage treatment unit and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460302
28 Jun 2023Conditional
rehabilitation and improvement of a 4km stretch of the Pound River, works will include removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures, improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and NIS has been submitted as part of this application
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23251
22 Feb 2021Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning ref no 19/316, the alterations include revised site layout plan, position of manufacturing building, yards and retaining walls. To provide first floor office, ancillary accommodation and alteration to the proposed building, landscaping and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2187
14 Aug 2019Conditional
to demolish 2 No. of existing sheds previously used as mushroom houses and construct a single storey manufacturing building, upgrade existing entrance onto public roadway, car parking, landscaping and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 19316
25 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a single storey office extension to existing single storey offices, demolish 2 No. of existing sheds previously used as mushroom houses, signage, car parking and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 1959
22 Nov 2017Conditional
to retain 1) change of use from previously granted service building to use as offices, extended floor area, front porch extension and alterations to elevations. 2) change of use from previously granted mushrooms houses to part storage areas. 3) revised location of buildings, driveway and yard from previously granted planning reference no. 97/101 & 01/1197, signage and associated site works
Retention · Cavan County Council, 17491
29 May 2017N/a
to retain change of use from agriculture to light industrial use, porch extension to front of existing office building, signage and associated site works
Retention · Cavan County Council, 17243
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 Ranrenagh.
Recorded monuments
- CV032-045 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 30m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. Break in bank at E with accompanying causeway probably 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
- CV032-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 33m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a shallow fosse overgrown with scrub, which survives only from S-SW-W. Break in bank at SE may represent 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ranrenagh.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ranrenagh.
- 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 Ranrenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Ranrenagh
- Area
- 765,998 m² (76.6 ha, 189.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Denn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Crosskeys, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crosskeys electoral division: 707 people in 244 households; 88% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corglass, Lattagloghan, Lismeen, Pollafree
- Placenames
- Ranrenagh 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.