Rakeeragh

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakeeragh, from 40 m² to 59,730 m² (5.97 ha, 14.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Rakeeragh 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.

• 13 Feb 2024Conditional

  permission to erect a single-storey car showroom addition to the northern front corner of the existing building including elevational changes/internal alterations, associated signage, and ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460048

• 28 Oct 2020Conditional

  To consist of alterations and extensions to an existing one and a half storey dwelling to comprise of the following: (1) Construct a one and a half storey extension to side. (2) Alterations of existing facade treatments to include openings and materials. (3) Ancillary internal & external refurbishments and all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20447

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a replacement two-storey dwelling, single storey attached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, gates & piers and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to revised site line boundary

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20105

• 24 Jul 2019N/a

  Permission for the demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a replacement two-storey dwelling, single-storey attached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, gates & piers and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19341

• 23 May 2019N/a

  permission for retention of the placing/erection of 1No. mobile home to the side garden of the existing dwelling house using the existing entrance of the site.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19239

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 Rakeeragh.

Recorded monuments

• MO013-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 42m NE-SW; 37.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 2.7m; Wth of top 0.8m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.9m). There was no visible fosse but there were entrances at NE (Wth of base 2.1m) and ENE (Wth of base 1.6m). Field banks encroached on the perimeter at NW (2), NNW, NE, SE, SSE and SSW, but this had been reduced to four by 2000 (OSAP). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2375 (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 Rakeeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Rakeeragh · Ráth Caorach

Area

561,901 m² (56.19 ha, 138.85 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Rackwallace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

974 people lived in 315 households in the Rackwallace electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickanoran, Corness, Dunaldron, Tamlat, Tanderageebane, Tanderageebrack

Placenames

Rakeeragh 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.