# Rateerbane, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ráth Thír Bhán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 571,253 m² (57.13 ha, 141.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,598 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40253 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171608 - Centre: latitude 54.157819, longitude -7.195033 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rateerbane, from 1,286 m² to 129,487 m² (12.95 ha, 32 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 319362: 129,487 m² (12.95 ha, 32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319362.md - Parcel 351410: 68,021 m² (6.8 ha, 16.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351410.md - Parcel 319100: 66,909 m² (6.69 ha, 16.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319100.md - Parcel 341055: 64,409 m² (6.44 ha, 15.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341055.md - Parcel 354329: 56,172 m² (5.62 ha, 13.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354329.md - Parcel 319530: 46,103 m² (4.61 ha, 11.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319530.md - Parcel 354059: 44,174 m² (4.42 ha, 10.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354059.md - Parcel 319363: 21,695 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319363.md - Parcel 357121: 21,501 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357121.md - Parcel 315342: 18,004 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315342.md - Parcel 338339: 11,037 m² (1.1 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338339.md - Parcel 319385: 8,773 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319385.md - Parcel 4099081: 3,278 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4099081.md - Parcel 4217863: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4217863.md - Parcel 1531176: 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531176.md - Parcel 4384379: 1,286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4384379.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rateerbane 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 31 Aug 2026, Monaghan County Council 2685: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a new two storey dwelling & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system with following mounded/raised percolation area, construct new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2685/0 - 23 Jul 2026, Monaghan County Council 2667: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a new two-storey dwelling & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system with following mounded / raised percolation area, construct a new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2667/0 - 4 Sept 2019, Monaghan County Council 19415: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of the renovation of existing bungalow dwelling house, the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, the construction of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19415/0 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 Rateerbane. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO017-023: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-023----. Situated just off the summit of a small N-S drumlin ridge on the NW-facing slope, with higher ground c. 250m to the SE. It is depicted as a small circular embanked area (diam. c. 15m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ and as a small enclosure defined by field banks on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 14m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H 1.2 SW-NW to c. 2.1m at NE), and an outer fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; ext. D c. 0.9m) E-SW but it was absent SW-N. Archaeological testing (00E0515) in Skeahorn townland c. 100m to the NW produced no related material (Coughlin 2002) 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: 8 May 201 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 Rateerbane. ## 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 Rateerbane, about 1 in 10 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rateerbane. - 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/rateerbane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rateerbane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rateerbane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rateerbane 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) - Drumreenagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumreenagh-170925.md - Ellinure: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ellinure.md - Gortgranard: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gortgranard.md - Rabows: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rabows.md - Radeerpark: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/radeerpark.md - Skeachorn: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/skeachorn.md - Tullyreas: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullyreas.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/rateerbane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/rateerbane