Keeny

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keeny, from 203 m² to 146,424 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Keeny 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660083

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  for two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22276

• 25 Nov 2020Refused

  to erect fully serviced two storey replacement dwelling with detached domestic garage, upgrade of existing entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20533

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19256

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV015-049 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

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2067 (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 Keeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Keeny · Caonaigh

Area

884,147 m² (88.41 ha, 218.48 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Castlesaunderson, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlesaunderson electoral division: 314 people in 107 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumbrawn, Drumcrow, Drumharid, Knockateery, Plush

Placenames

Keeny 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.