Raconnell

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raconnell, from 64 m² to 466,342 m² (46.63 ha, 115.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Raconnell 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 Nov 2020Conditional

  permission to demolish an existing two storey dwelling & erect a replacement two storey dwelling, together with new wastewater treatment system as approved under permission reference 20/67 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20500

• 25 Feb 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of alterations and extensions to existing two-storey dwelling to comprise of the following: 1. construct a single storey extension to side & rear. 2. alterations of existing façade treatments to include openings and materials. 3. alterations to existing front porch. 4. ancillary internal & external refurbishment works. 5. new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2067

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumreaske Lough 001602

Recorded monuments

• MO009-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the N end of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a raised oval grass-covered area (dims 54.7m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by a scarp (at N: Wth 1m; H 1.6m) and hedge with an outer drain (at N: Wth of top 1.6m; Wth of base 1.1m; D 0.3m). There is a modern entrance gap at SW, but the original entrance is likely to be a widened gap (Wth at base 3.1m) at ENE. 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. Date of revision: 13 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Raconnell, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c.1790, having full-height three-bay segmental bow breakfront to front (south) elevation, single-storey porch to east elevation and return to rear elevation. Hipped slate roof with ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks and clay chimneypots. Projecting eaves with moulded timber eaves supports and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Harl-rendered walls, and rendered plinth course with tooled stone coping. Round-headed paired openings at basement level to rear. Square-headed window openings throughout, with render reveals, tooled stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber panelled shutters visible to interiors. Round-headed door opening to front, having tooled stone doorcase comprising pair of tooled stone Tuscan columns supporting tooled cornice lintel, forming base for round-headed surround and keystone, and plain glazed fanlight over timber panelled door. Door opens onto paved platform having three limestone steps. Square-headed replacement timber door to east elevation of porch, with render surround. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings in two-sided yard to rear, with hipped slate roof and coursed rubble stone walls.

• Raconnell, outbuilding, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Range of two-storey outbuildings, built c.1800, surrounding rectangular-plan central courtyard and with L-plan return to rear (north). Hipped slate roofs, with cast-iron rainwater goods, cut limestone eaves course, and recent raised vents to ridge. Coursed rubble limestone walls, having dressed limestone block-and-start quoins, red brick dovecote to wall to interior of courtyard. Gauged-brick square-headed window and door openings, with red brick surrounds, masonry sills, timber battened doors and timber louvered vents, some having glazed panels, some blocked. Gauged-brick segmental-headed door openings with red brick surrounds, timber battened doors, and timber fittings. Gauged-brick segmental-headed carriage arches. Some oculus window openings having gauged red brick surrounds. Coursed rubble limestone wall enclosing south of courtyard, with round-headed pedestrian entrance to south side of yard having single-leaf wrought-iron gate. Grass to inner courtyard, boundary walls overgrown, set in landscaped grounds to rear of Raconnell House.

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

At the centre of the townland of Raconnell, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2301 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Raconnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Raconnell · Ráth Conaill

Area

783,668 m² (78.37 ha, 193.65 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Bellanode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Corknock, Crosses, Drumbenagh, Drumreask, Newgrove, Rafeenan, Tullycroman

Placenames

Raconnell 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.