# Raconnell, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ráth Conaill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 783,668 m² (78.37 ha, 193.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 67,478 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): the national planning file did not answer - Civil parish: Tedavnet, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/tedavnet.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Bellanode, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,571 people lived in 495 households in the Bellanode electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40381 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171588 - Centre: latitude 54.264463, longitude -7.004085 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raconnell, from 64 m² to 466,342 m² (46.63 ha, 115.24 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 357242: 466,342 m² (46.63 ha, 115.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357242.md - Parcel 329747: 89,499 m² (8.95 ha, 22.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329747.md - Parcel 329750: 83,198 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329750.md - Parcel 341187: 71,434 m² (7.14 ha, 17.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341187.md - Parcel 329749: 63,521 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329749.md - Parcel 345585: 6,293 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345585.md - Parcel 336471: 3,408 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336471.md - Parcel 348526: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348526.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Raconnell 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) The national planning file did not answer. Try again later. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumreaske Lough, site code 001602 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-023----. Located at the N end of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a raised oval grass-covered area (dims 54.7m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by a scarp (at N: Wth 1m; H 1.6m) and hedge with an outer drain (at N: Wth of top 1.6m; Wth of base 1.1m; D 0.3m). There is a modern entrance gap at SW, but the original entrance is likely to be a widened gap (Wth at base 3.1m) at ENE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 13 December 2017 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) - Raconnell, country house, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 41400927, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400927. Detached seven-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c.1790, having full-height three-bay segmental bow breakfront to front (south) elevation, single-storey porch to east elevation and return to rear elevation. Hipped slate roof with ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks and clay chimneypots. Projecting eaves with moulded timber eaves supports and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Harl-rendered walls, and rendered plinth course with tooled stone coping. Round-headed paired openings at basement level to rear. Square-headed window openings throughout, with render reveals, tooled stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber panelled shutters visible to interiors. Round-headed door opening to front, having tooled stone doorcase comprising pair of tooled stone Tuscan columns supporting tooled cornice lintel, forming base for round-headed surround and keystone, and plain glazed fanlight over timber panelled door. Door opens onto paved platform having three limestone steps. Square-headed replacement timber door to east elevation of porch, with render surround. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings in two-sided yard to rear, with hipped slate roof and coursed rubble stone walls. - Raconnell, outbuilding, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 41400979, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400979. Range of two-storey outbuildings, built c.1800, surrounding rectangular-plan central courtyard and with L-plan return to rear (north). Hipped slate roofs, with cast-iron rainwater goods, cut limestone eaves course, and recent raised vents to ridge. Coursed rubble limestone walls, having dressed limestone block-and-start quoins, red brick dovecote to wall to interior of courtyard. Gauged-brick square-headed window and door openings, with red brick surrounds, masonry sills, timber battened doors and timber louvered vents, some having glazed panels, some blocked. Gauged-brick segmental-headed door openings with red brick surrounds, timber battened doors, and timber fittings. Gauged-brick segmental-headed carriage arches. Some oculus window openings having gauged red brick surrounds. Coursed rubble limestone wall enclosing south of courtyard, with round-headed pedestrian entrance to south side of yard having single-leaf wrought-iron gate. Grass to inner courtyard, boundary walls overgrown, set in landscaped grounds to rear of Raconnell House. ## 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 Raconnell, about 1 in 5 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2301, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2301.zip (ZIP). - 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/monaghan/raconnell.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/raconnell.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/raconnell.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Raconnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corknock: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corknock.md - Crosses: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crosses-170605.md - Drumbenagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbenagh.md - Drumreask: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumreask.md - Newgrove: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/newgrove.md - Rafeenan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rafeenan.md - Tullycroman: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullycroman.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. --- 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/monaghan/raconnell - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/raconnell