Rahill

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahill, from 509 m² to 325,033 m² (32.5 ha, 80.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Rahill 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 Sept 2025Refused

  the construction of a new 248m2 private dormer bungalow type dwelling with access from local road via existing entrance with percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Carlow County Council, 2560286

• 25 Aug 2025N/a

  the construction of a new 260m2 private dormer bungalow type dwelling with access from local road via existing entrance with percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Carlow County Council, 2560247

• 24 Jul 2025N/a

  the construction of a new 260m2 private dormer bungalow type dwelling with access from local road via existing entrance with percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Carlow County Council, 2560212

• 21 Mar 2025Conditional

  alterations to plans approved under PLREF 23/60195, (1) Internal layout change of bedrooms, sitting room, bathrooms and utility room and near north facing windows. (2) permission for change of use of granted garage into a self-catering one bedroom unit for own use as a 'granny flat' with a kitchen, living, dining and bathroom with connection to existing mains water and proposed percolation area., together with all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560067

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  to 1) demolish existing extension to rear of dwelling to make way for new extension 2) permission to construct new extensions to the rear and front of our existing dwelling with minor alterations to dwelling to accommodate same & 3) permission to increase the overall ridge height of the dwelling with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360218

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey rear extension including all internal modifications to the existing dwelling, removal of existing chimney stack with remedial works to existing roof, removal and blocking up of the existing front entrance door and locating it within the proposed extension, permission to construct a detached domestic garage and permission to erect a temporary mobile home on the site for the duration of the construction build, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360195

• 21 Aug 2023N/a

  permission for the construction of a new single storey rear extension including removal of existing chimney stack with remedial works to existing roof and internal modifications to the existing dwelling, permission to construct a detached domestic garage and permission to erect a temporary mobile home on the site for the duration of the construction build, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360181

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  Construction of an agricultural hay shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21408

• 1 Apr 2019Refused

  for the construction of a domestic storage shed and all associated site works and permission for the change of use of existing buildings from their current use as a stores to use as a domestic dwelling, connection to existing onsite treatment system and percolation area, connection to existing well, shared use of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19127

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 Rahill.

Recorded monuments

• CW001-003001 Church
  Description

  Located in the N portion of a D-shaped graveyard the present remains consist of the foundation courses of a rectangular structure of granite rubble (max. H 1m) (dims. 20.3m E-W; 8.4m N-S; chancel L 11.2m), aligned E-W, and divided into two roughly equal chambers. To the NE of the graveyard, slag, burnt clay, and some medieval sherds were noted in the ploughsoil. To the NW of graveyard, a distinct circular patch (diam. 15m) of dark soil was noted on a slight rise after ploughing, possibly a fulacht fia (CW001-003003-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 December 2009

• CW001-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  Shown on the 1839 and 1908 OS '6-inch maps'. The graveyard is depicted as being D-shaped (map dims. c. 37m N-S; c. 49m E-W along straight N side) with a church (CW001-003001-) running E-W forming the N boundary on the 1839 OS 6-inch map though on the 1908 map the church is depicted by a cross and the enclosing element of the graveyard itself forms the N boundary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW001-003003 Burnt mound
  Description

  A distinctive dark patch of soil (diam. c. 15m) on a slight rise, c. 20m to the NW of church and graveyard (CW001-003001- and CW001-003002-), was noted during inspection by the National Monuments Service in October 1988. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 6 January 2012

• CW001-003004 Industrial site
  Description

  Pieces of slag and sherds of medieval pottery set in burnt clay were noted, c. 10m to the NE of church and graveyard (CW001-003001- and CW001-003002-), during inspection by ASI in October 1988. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 6 January 2012

• CW001-004 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 105m N-S; c. 91m E-W) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The E side is not clearly visible, only the return from the NE angle southward (L c. 20m). A church (CW001-003001-) and graveyard (CW001-003002-) are located c. 35m to the E. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW001-004----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW001-004----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2731 (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 Rahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Rahill · Ráth Choill

Area

2,643,640 m² (264.36 ha, 653.26 acres)

Civil parish

Rahill, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahill electoral division: 792 people in 272 households; 83% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broughillstown, Clogh Upper (Co. Wicklow), Garrettstown, Holdenstown Lower (Co. Wicklow), Holdenstown Upper (Co. Wicklow), Irongrange Upper (Co. Wicklow), Maplestown

Placenames

Rahill 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.