Rakean

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakean, from 486 m² to 148,087 m² (14.81 ha, 36.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Rakean 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.

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  A ten year permission for the development of 8 no. wind turbines, each with a maximum tip height of up to 180 metres; and all associated site development, reinstatement, temporary and ancillary works including turbine foundations, crane hardstands, approximately 5.5 kilometres of site access tracks, permanent upgrade works to the L62012 and L62013 local roads, 11 no. site entrances, underground electricity and communications cabling, site drainage works, a temporary construction compound and a permanent meteorological mast with a maximum height of up to 101 metres. The proposed development will have a 30-year operational life from the date of commissioning of the entire development. The proposed development also includes permanent upgrade works along the R188, R183 and R189 regional roads in the townlands of Rakean, Lismagonway, Aghadrumkeen and Newbliss to accommodate the delivery of wind turbine components. Upgrade works will include the removal of roadside banks and vegetation, re-profiling of a vertical crest, the removal of 1 no. tree and the temporary lowering of a bridge parapet wall, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including connection to the national electricity grid, upgrade works to turbine component delivery routes and the importation and use of construction materials. The planning application is also accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information relates to revised plans. (NOTE 1ST AND 3RD PARTY APPEAL ON THIS FILE)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19486

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 Rakean.

Recorded monuments

• MO018-012 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Located on the N bank of an E-W section of a stream, which is immediately to the S and runs through rock outcrop immediately to the W. It is described as a ‘Cromlech’ only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It consists of an overgrown chamber aligned NW-SW with a large capstone but there is no visible evidence of a cairn. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 18 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Rakean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Rakean · Ráth Céin

Area

559,228 m² (55.92 ha, 138.19 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabog, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Lisnaveane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lisnaveane electoral division: 435 people in 150 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corravilla, Cremoyle, Crewmeige, Drumlinny, Lismagonway, Nart

Placenames

Rakean 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.