Kane

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Kane, from 436,010 m² (43.6 ha, 107.74 acres) to 436,010 m² (43.6 ha, 107.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kane 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.

• 24 May 2021N/a

  Permission to erect an agricultural shed.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 21633

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 Kane.

Recorded monuments

• LH003-039 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated at S end of a slight rise in undulating countryside. Oval interior (max. dims. 36m E-W, 26.5m N-S) with two banks and an intervening and inner fosse extending in an arc from WSW-NE, thereby cutting off the interior from the ridge to the N. Traces of inner bank visible on N. On other sides there is a steep scarp which acts as natural protection. There are traces of banks abutting the outer bank at various places, which may be interpreted as traces of an ancient field system.

• LH003-042001 Graveyard
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 A graveyard that may have been the site of a medieval church (LH003-042002-) and where there is a souterrain (LH003-042003-).

• LH003-042002 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Remains of possible medieval church appeared to be in the centre of the graveyard (LH003-042001-) in 1929 (CLAJ 1929, 61) but were no longer visible when visited in the late 1960s. (CLAJ 1941, 23)

• LH003-042003 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated within graveyard (LH003-042001-). The present entrance is located outside the cemetery wall, and gives access to a sub-rectangular chamber (L 3m, Wth 1.5m) aligned NW-SE with a passage (L 13m, Wth 1m, H 1.1m) leading off SW and terminating in a drop-hole which gives access to a sub-circular chamber (diam. 2.5m, H 1.6m). A second passage (L 6.5m, Wth 1.1m, H 1.3m) extends W from the second chamber and is blocked by collapse at the W end. (CLAJ 1979, 211-12)

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Kane, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2924 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Kane · Céin

Area

438,116 m² (43.81 ha, 108.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kane, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Faughart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,065 people lived in 359 households in the Faughart electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockagh, Rathduff, Roche, Shortstone East, Stumpa

Placenames

Kane 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.