Rafeenan

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafeenan, from 371 m² to 133,513 m² (13.35 ha, 32.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Rafeenan 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.

• 19 Mar 2024Conditional

  permission for the erection of ball stops units to the northern boundary of playing pitches and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2421

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  retention permission for development consisting of: 1) retention of elevational changes to dwelling house 2) retention of 2 out buildings to side of dwelling. To a split level dwelling including all ancillary site works previously granted under planning reference 04/1276

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 23136

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission for retention and completion of constructed slatted cattle house structure and underground slurry holding storage tanks at existing farmyard complex to serve existing farm holding and all associated site works significant further information relates to retention permission of new yard, revision to site boundary and replacement of agricultural gate on the farm entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2368

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 Rafeenan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rafeenan.

Architectural heritage

• Outbuilding, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c.1870, having pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls having squared quoins, red brick in facer bond with header bond base to apex of gables and to upper floor to rear (north-west). Square-headed ventilation openings to rear. Square-headed loop openings to north-east elevation. Square-headed window and pitching door openings to first floor to front (south-east) elevation with red brick surrounds and sills, and timber fittings. Gauged-brick segmental-headed window openings to ground floor to front, having red brick surrounds, sills and timber fittings. Gauged-brick segmental-headed door openings to ground floor with red brick surrounds and timber fittings. Concrete yard to front.

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 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_2300 (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.

No address of the register names Rafeenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Rafeenan · Ráth Fíonáin

Area

1,105,527 m² (110.55 ha, 273.18 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Bellanode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellanode electoral division: 1,571 people in 495 households; 83% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappog, Clonkeady, Drumbarnet, Drumbenagh, Drumcoo (Jackson), Drumreask, Raconnell, Tullyvogy

Placenames

Rafeenan 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.