# Rahalisk, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Ráth an Loisc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,346,595 m² (434.66 ha, 1,074.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,993 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 24 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Macroom, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/macroom.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Rahalisk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rahalisk electoral division: 615 people in 214 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11571 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44699 - Centre: latitude 51.976177, longitude -8.95788 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahalisk, from 28 m² to 363,617 m² (36.36 ha, 89.85 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2336906: 363,617 m² (36.36 ha, 89.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336906.md - Parcel 2336913: 321,102 m² (32.11 ha, 79.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336913.md - Parcel 2336907: 301,990 m² (30.2 ha, 74.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336907.md - Parcel 2128716: 264,554 m² (26.46 ha, 65.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128716.md - Parcel 2336901: 259,490 m² (25.95 ha, 64.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336901.md - Parcel 5241961: 245,707 m² (24.57 ha, 60.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241961.md - Parcel 2128728: 225,588 m² (22.56 ha, 55.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128728.md - Parcel 2128725: 188,047 m² (18.8 ha, 46.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128725.md - Parcel 2336896: 183,021 m² (18.3 ha, 45.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336896.md - Parcel 5241907: 171,504 m² (17.15 ha, 42.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241907.md - Parcel 2128734: 165,488 m² (16.55 ha, 40.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128734.md - Parcel 2336897: 159,408 m² (15.94 ha, 39.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336897.md - Parcel 2336900: 156,478 m² (15.65 ha, 38.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336900.md - Parcel 2128720: 150,075 m² (15.01 ha, 37.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128720.md - Parcel 2336905: 136,222 m² (13.62 ha, 33.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336905.md - Parcel 5610576: 127,926 m² (12.79 ha, 31.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5610576.md - Parcel 2128735: 113,536 m² (11.35 ha, 28.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128735.md - Parcel 2128727: 97,993 m² (9.8 ha, 24.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128727.md - Parcel 2128721: 89,908 m² (8.99 ha, 22.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128721.md - Parcel 2428956: 85,732 m² (8.57 ha, 21.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428956.md - Parcel 2336910: 79,551 m² (7.96 ha, 19.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336910.md - Parcel 2336902: 58,630 m² (5.86 ha, 14.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336902.md - Parcel 2128714: 57,772 m² (5.78 ha, 14.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128714.md - Parcel 5241987: 50,732 m² (5.07 ha, 12.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241987.md - Parcel 2128726: 44,815 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128726.md - Parcel 2336909: 38,418 m² (3.84 ha, 9.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336909.md - Parcel 2128737: 36,274 m² (3.63 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128737.md - Parcel 2128715: 27,307 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128715.md - Parcel 5676983: 18,847 m² (1.88 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5676983.md - Parcel 6114830: 16,869 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114830.md - Parcel 2336898: 16,064 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336898.md - Parcel 2336904: 8,416 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336904.md - Parcel 2128717: 6,993 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128717.md - Parcel 2128729: 6,498 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128729.md - Parcel 2336912: 5,157 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336912.md - Parcel 2336895: 5,056 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336895.md - Parcel 6114803: 4,939 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114803.md - Parcel 2128718: 4,729 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128718.md - Parcel 6042670: 4,594 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042670.md - Parcel 2128722: 4,587 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128722.md - Parcel 2128731: 4,362 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128731.md - Parcel 2128736: 4,290 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128736.md - Parcel 6116490: 3,757 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6116490.md - Parcel 2336903: 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336903.md - Parcel 4914602: 3,129 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4914602.md - Parcel 3297267: 3,024 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3297267.md - Parcel 5377732: 2,634 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5377732.md - Parcel 2128730: 2,552 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128730.md - Parcel 2128724: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128724.md - Parcel 2336908: 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336908.md - Parcel 2570970: 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2570970.md - Parcel 2628272: 1,568 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2628272.md - Parcel 2674753: 963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674753.md - Parcel 2336911: 789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336911.md - Parcel 5208040: 778 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5208040.md - Parcel 5208058: 747 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5208058.md - Parcel 2336899: 665 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336899.md - Parcel 5208052: 514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5208052.md - Parcel 6117565: 495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6117565.md - Parcel 2128723: 481 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128723.md - Parcel 2706011: 462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706011.md - Parcel 2128816: 413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128816.md - Parcel 2128719: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128719.md - Parcel 4442832: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4442832.md - Parcel 2375982: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2375982.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rahalisk in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 24 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2026, Cork County Council 26/1084: Grant with conditions. Permission. Full Planning Permission for the upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system to include new raised percolation area together with all other ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/1084 - 17 Sept 2025, Cork County Council 25/5940: Grant with conditions. Permission. Permission for the demolition of existing dwelling house, permission for the construction of new 2-storey dwelling house in lieu thereof (change in plan to that permitted under planning ref. no. 22/5362), together with all other ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5940 - 14 Jun 2022, Cork County Council 22/5362: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission for demolition of existing bathroom and outbuilding to rear of existing dwelling house and construction of new 2-storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, new waste water treatment system and all other ancillary siteworks. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/5362 - 5 Oct 2021, Cork County Council 21/6700: Conditional. Permission. The following works to existing agricultural barn, 1) convert barn to residential dwelling at ground floor and partial first floor, 2) indoor storage area, 3) outdoor covered area, 4) external façade alterations to suit residential dwelling, 5) new sewerage system, 6) improvement works to existing site entrance and 7) all associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6700 - 21 Dec 2020, Cork County Council 20/6924: Conditional. Permission. Permission for new two storey dwelling, sewerage system and all associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/6924 - 19 Nov 2019, Cork County Council 19/6751: Conditional. Permission. The demolition of out building and the single storey annex to the rear (north-west) and side (south-west) of an existing dwelling and for a) the construction of a two storey extension to the rear (north-west) and side (south-west) of the dwelling house b) removal of the existing roof and construction of a new roof at a higher level c) various elevational changes to the existing dwelling d) decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of a secondary waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary and necessary site works to complete the development.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6751 - 28 Aug 2019, Cork County Council 19/6137: Conditional. Permission. Construct a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6137 - 16 Jun 2016, Cork County Council 16/5484: Incompleted application. Permission. Retention of a timber shed and permitted for the construction of calf house, extension to existing milking parlour, slatted slurry tank and demolition of a machinery shed with ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/5484 - 20 May 2015, Cork County Council 15/5056: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a permanent entrance to allow vehicular access to forestry lands. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5056 - 7 May 2015, Cork County Council 15/4947: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a permanent entrance to allow vehicular access to forestry lands. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/4947 - 8 Apr 2015, Cork County Council 15/4685: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of permanent entrance adjoining forestry lands to the public road to allow vehicular access to lands. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/4685 - 23 Jun 2010, Cork County Council 10/5540: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling house, domestic garage & proprietary treatment plant. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/5540 - 22 Jul 2009, Cork County Council 09/6428: Conditional. Permission. Construction of farm machinery shed and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/6428 - 27 May 2009, Cork County Council 09/5737: Incompleted application. Permission. Farm machinery shed with ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/5737 - 11 Feb 2009, Cork County Council 09/4409: Conditional. Permission. Boarding kennel building (with 22 separate kennel units), administration building with office, grooming room, store, and isolation pen, effluent collection tank, car parking area, new entrance to site and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/4409 - 22 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/13820: Conditional. Permission. Demolish farm buildings, construction of slatted feeding shed with underground tank and cattle shed with effluent tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/13820 - 2 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/11957: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of cubicle shed and construction of cubicle shed. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/11957 - 7 Sept 2006, Cork County Council 06/10389: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/10389 - 25 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/10049: Conditional. Permission consequent. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/10049 - 12 Jul 2006, Cork County Council 06/8799: Incompleted application. Permission consequent. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8799 - 6 Apr 2006, Cork County Council 06/6155: Refused. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/6155 - 6 Mar 2006, Cork County Council 06/5313: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/5313 - 26 Jan 2006, Cork County Council 06/4341: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/4341 - 24 Jan 2005, Cork County Council 05/255: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/255 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Mullaghanish to Musheramore Mountains SPA, site code 004162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO049-066: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO049-066----. On a gently sloping terrace on a S-facing slope in the foothills of the Boggeragh Mountains overlooking the valley of the Awboy River to the W and S. The remains consist of a gallery (L c. 4m; Wth 1.3m at W, 1.4m at centre and narrowing sharply at E to 0.5m), aligned NW-SE, represented by five sidestones to N and four to S; no backstone is visible. Two outer-wall stones stand to the N and S of the gallery. The S section of the gallery is covered by a roofstone (2.4m x 2m; T 0.2-0.25m) and a second displaced roofstone (2.05m x 0.9m; T 0.25m) lies at an angle at the W end of the gallery which is partly blocked with fill. Traces of a mound to the N, W and S appear to be the result of field clearance. Another wedge tomb (CO049-067----) is located 300m to the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009 - CO060-001: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO060-001----. In marshy ground, beside well. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 11.8m; Wth 12.9m; H 0.65m); opening (Wth 4.9m) faces NNE. Two small low mounds of burnt material lie immediately opposite the opening. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO060-002: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO060-002----. Road bridge (Wth 7.5m) over Awboy River. Three segmental arches, roughly dressed voussoirs; low pointed breakwaters. String course over arches. Plaque over central arch reads 'Foundation stone......Paul Horgan Esq. A.D. 1831. Designed by N.M. Fitzgerald'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahalisk. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Rahalisk. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahalisk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahalisk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahalisk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rahalisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bawnmore: https://everytownland.com/cork/bawnmore-40975.md - Carrigthomas: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrigthomas.md - Coolacoosane: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolacoosane-41698.md - Knocknagappul: https://everytownland.com/cork/knocknagappul-43832.md - Maulnahorna: https://everytownland.com/cork/maulnahorna.md - Moanflugh: https://everytownland.com/cork/moanflugh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahalisk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/rahalisk