Rafian

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafian, from 710 m² to 138,130 m² (13.81 ha, 34.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Rafian 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.

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  to decommission an existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system along with associated percolation along with associated percolation area and construction of a new vehicular entrance to the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660317

• 17 Apr 2026Conditional

  for a single storey porch extension to existing two-storey dwelling and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660194

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  extend existing semi-detached cottage with single storey extension to rear and side with flat roof link, new effluent treatment system and percolation and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23106

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  to retain alterations to existing elevations and site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22531

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct 1 no. free range poultry house together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18151

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rafian.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rafian.

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 10 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 Rafian.

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

Name

Rafian · Ráth Fiáin

Area

648,713 m² (64.87 ha, 160.3 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlane, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Kilconny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconny electoral division: 643 people in 226 households; 79% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagrow, Drumacon, Drumbrughas, Drummany Montiaghs, Lisnamaine or Sycamore Fields, Mullanaffrin

Placenames

Rafian 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.