Rakenny

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakenny, from 232 m² to 304,363 m² (30.44 ha, 75.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Rakenny 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.

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  to retain a single storey extension to the side, front porch alterations and elevational changes to existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560488

• 25 Mar 2025N/a

  1) To construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, 2) To Retain alterations and elevational changes to existing dwelling and front porch area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560125

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  for a new part bungalow, part two storey dwelling, domestic garage/carport, wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460299

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  to extend an existing dwelling with a single-storey porch. The site works to include a replacement wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460171

• 14 Mar 2024Refused

  for construction of a two storey dwelling domestic garage/carport, wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2420

• 2 Jun 2017N/a

  to retain (a) existing four bay slatted shed with straw bedded area and slatted tank section, (b) existing six bay slatted shed incorporating feed passage and cubicles, slatted tank section, concrete aprons and associated site works. This development is within the curtilage of Rathkenny House (CV16017), stables and gate lodge which are protected structures and are listed on the national inventory for architectural heritage

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17235

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 Rakenny.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-060 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Rathkenny House, country house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Regency-style three-bay two-storey country house, built 1829, with astylar pedimented breakfront and advanced end piers. Hipped slate roof with tall rendered stacks and terracotta pots behind blocking course over cornice and ashlar frieze with central pediment. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls, formerly rendered, with sandstone ashlar quoins, and limestone ashlar plinth course to height of entrance steps. Ashlar sandstone block-and-start window surrounds to upper floor windows. Ashlar limestone surrounds to ground floor windows with panels under sills and bracketed entablatures. Six-over-six sliding-sash timber windows. Bracketed entablature motif elaborated over the entrance door and side lights having six-over-four timber sash windows, limestone architrave of door contrasts to sandstone of side-lights. Four-bay side elevations with advanced centre bays and end piers, bracketed entablatures over ground floor windows. Rear three-bay elevation facing river with bracketed entablatures to ground-floor windows and full-height pilasters between the bays. Lower two-storey return to north-west elevation. Retaining interior features and fittings. Stable and farmyards beyond to the west ranged along the river. Set in an older demesne straddling the Annalee River, sited across river from earlier house of which only the terraced walled gardens survive. Gardens set out in terraces with central path framed by yew trees reached by concrete footbridge in central axis. Gothic-style Georgian tea house aligned with central path faced in red brick with rusticated quoins and battlemented parapet with limestone copings over a wide plat band. Gardens originally aligned on the previous house open onto the river to the south with stone quay walls to river bank.

• Rathkenny House, stables, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey stable block, built c.1830, with later single-storey lean-to adjoining to the west, tall walls to south and east creating a courtyard. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and oversailing barge stones, rendered brick chimneystack with string courses, cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone rubble walls with brick surrounds to square-headed window and door openings. Ground floor windows and door recessed within wider elliptical-headed brick arches. Some replacement casement windows, some louvred windows to upper floor, with stone sills. Limestone ashlar gate piers on plinth with square cap and plainly treated gate stops. Set beside the Annalee River to the west of Rathkenny House within the historic demesne

• Rathkenny House, gate lodge, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1840. Pyramidal slate roof with clay ridge tiles oversailing eaves having pared carved brackets. Chimneystack rises from rear wall. Red brick walls. Square-headed entrance door and lattice paned casement window.

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, low (inferred), 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 Rakenny.

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 Rakenny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Rakenny · Ráth Cionaoith

Area

1,347,805 m² (134.78 ha, 333.05 acres)

Civil parish

Drung, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Rakenny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rakenny electoral division: 440 people in 170 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corglass, Corravogy, Dernaskeagh, Drumherriff South, Drumnagran, Mullaghboy, Nutfield, Tullavally

Placenames

Rakenny 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.