Rahans

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahans, from 1,155 m² to 158,882 m² (15.89 ha, 39.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rahans 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.

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of construction of a storey and a half type detached dwelling, with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. Significant further information received includes revised plans, drawings and 3d views from road demonstrating a revised location of dwelling, the revised dwelling and a garage design.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21441

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 Rahans.

Recorded monuments

• MO034-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a prominent drumlin overlooking the N, bulbous (dims c. 330-c. 400m) end of Rahans Lough (L c. 1km N-S), which is c. 330m to the ESE. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. c. 50m) sloping down to the S, which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth 5.4m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2.5m) and an overgrown fosse (at SE: Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 0.75m), with traces of an outer bank at W and N. The entrance (Wth 2.45m) and causeway (Wth 3m; H 1m) are at SE. 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: 17 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahans.

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.

No address of the register names Rahans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Rahans · Raithnigh

Area

637,348 m² (63.73 ha, 157.49 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Lough Fea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lough Fea electoral division: 686 people in 234 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clontrain, Derry, Derrynaglah, Descart, Drumbo, Leitrim

Placenames

Rahans 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.