# Rakean, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghabog, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ráth Céin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 559,228 m² (55.92 ha, 138.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghabog, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghabog.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Lisnaveane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 435 people lived in 150 households in the Lisnaveane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/40197 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171598 - Centre: latitude 54.160434, longitude -7.002988 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakean, from 486 m² to 148,087 m² (14.81 ha, 36.59 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 342363: 148,087 m² (14.81 ha, 36.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342363.md - Parcel 332154: 114,672 m² (11.47 ha, 28.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332154.md - Parcel 332155: 66,412 m² (6.64 ha, 16.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332155.md - Parcel 342353: 60,096 m² (6.01 ha, 14.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342353.md - Parcel 332651: 55,124 m² (5.51 ha, 13.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332651.md - Parcel 342701: 35,025 m² (3.5 ha, 8.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342701.md - Parcel 354357: 20,266 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354357.md - Parcel 342700: 6,993 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342700.md - Parcel 5562747: 4,863 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5562747.md - Parcel 5562724: 4,679 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5562724.md - Parcel 337879: 4,566 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337879.md - Parcel 4838367: 3,154 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4838367.md - Parcel 5176828: 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5176828.md - Parcel 332652: 2,786 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332652.md - Parcel 332650: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332650.md - Parcel 316716: 2,486 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316716.md - Parcel 338235: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338235.md - Parcel 342366: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342366.md - Parcel 357195: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357195.md - Parcel 338345: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338345.md - Parcel 340188: 1,960 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/340188.md - Parcel 332647: 1,955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332647.md - Parcel 338236: 1,730 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/338236.md - Parcel 5515012: 1,705 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515012.md - Parcel 352683: 1,681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352683.md - Parcel 319654: 1,432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319654.md - Parcel 335780: 1,424 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335780.md - Parcel 342354: 1,413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342354.md - Parcel 5675776: 1,343 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5675776.md - Parcel 5675778: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5675778.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Oct 2019, Monaghan County Council 19486: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19486/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rakean. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO018-012: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO018-012----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rakean. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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. - 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, 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/rakean.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rakean.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rakean.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rakean 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) - Corravilla: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corravilla.md - Cremoyle: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cremoyle.md - Crewmeige: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crewmeige.md - Drumlinny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlinny-170886.md - Lismagonway: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lismagonway.md - Nart: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/nart-171565.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/rakean - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/rakean