Keenagh
Townland in the civil parish of Crosserlough, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan; in Irish Caonach
Parcel 485394
- Area
- 35,758 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Keenagh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 99.3 ha
- 245 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 3,360 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keenagh, from 6 m² to 178,696 m² (17.87 ha, 44.16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Keenagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jan 2026N/a
for the temporary placement of a mobile home and raised access deck and all associated site works, for a period of up to three years- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660004
7 Aug 2020Conditional
to retain existing 1.5 storey extension to north elevation of existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20333
21 Dec 2018Conditional
to retain alterations previously granted under Planning Permission Reference Number 17/483. The alterations include 1) additional floor area of the dwelling 2) elevational changes and 3) all ancillary site development works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18541
22 Nov 2017Conditional
1) extension and conversion of an existing bungalow to a dormer style dwelling, 2) demolition of existing domestic garage and construction of relocated domestic garage, 3) revised site boundaries and 4) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17483
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Keenagh.
Recorded monuments
- CV038-037 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 41m) enclosed by a much-denuded low earthen bank and traces of a shallow fosse identifiable from NW-NNE. Modern trenches skirt the outer lip of fosse from NE-SE and S-W. An earlier report (OPW 1970) suggested that the original entrance may have been at S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Keenagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Keenagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Keenagh · Caonach
- Area
- 992,990 m² (99.3 ha, 245.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosserlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Ballyjamesduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyjamesduff electoral division: 3,548 people in 1,187 households; 59% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clare, Crosserlough, Derrylea, Drumroragh, Drumscruddan, Finaway
- Placenames
- Keenagh 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.