Rakeeragh
Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ráth Caorach
- Area
- 66.1 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 6,661 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakeeragh, from 349 m² to 117,014 m² (11.7 ha, 28.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rakeeragh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Sept 2022N/a
permission to construct two storey replacement dwelling to rear of existing single storey buildings, renovate existing buildings and outbuildings, partial demolition to rear of existing building, upgrade of existing entrance onto public road, driveway, landscaping, waste water treatment system and percolation area. Significant further information received in relation to revised site layout plan and reduction in size of the garage
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22409
5 Jun 2020Conditional
permission for a domestic garage with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20202
12 Aug 2019Conditional
permission to retain and complete alterations to an existing garage to a self-contained residential accommodation and all associated site development works.
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19372
17 Aug 2018Conditional
Retention permission of existing commercial use on the site including the existing hard standing areas/access road with full permission for construction of a poly-tunnel, stone and mulch storage bays, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works including bunds
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18391
8 Aug 2018Conditional
outline permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18375
18 Jul 2018Conditional
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18329
18 Jul 2018Conditional
Permission to erect a storey and a half dwelling, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18331
26 Feb 2018N/a
Permission to construct a poly-tunnel, hard standing area, stone and mulch storage bays, new vehicular entrance, access road and all associated site development works including bunds. Significant Further information includes revised site notices/description of development to include for the retention of the existing commercial use including the existing hard standing areas/access road.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1870
11 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a seven bay A-Frame agricultural slatted shed with underground slurry storage tanks, a roofed manure pit, a cattle crush and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to change of site boundary
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17434
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rakeeragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rakeeragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rakeeragh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2610 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rakeeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Rakeeragh · Ráth Caorach
- Area
- 660,855 m² (66.09 ha, 163.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Carrickmacross Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrickmacross Rural electoral division: 4,291 people in 1,518 households; 63% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickmaclim, Drumgurra, Fartagorman, Greaghdrumit, Lossets, Tiragarvan
- Placenames
- Rakeeragh 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.