Raheen
Townland in the civil parish of Knockavilly, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish An Ráithín
- Area
- 150.6 ha
- 372 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 7,069 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 22 m² to 245,208 m² (24.52 ha, 60.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Raheen 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
5 Apr 2019Conditional
1) Retention of 12.5sq.m extension to west side of the original dwelling house 2), retention of a 130sq.m outbuilding to the rear of the dwelling house, with games room, study and garden storage at ground level and a home gym at first floor level.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4841
6 Mar 2019Incompleted application
Retention of: 1) 12.5sq.m extension to the west side of the original dwellinghouse, 2) 130sq.m outbuilding to the rear of the dwellinghouse, with games room, study and garden storage at ground level and a home gym at first floor level.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4548
21 Dec 2018Incompleted application
Retention of a 5sq.m extension to the east side of the original dwelling house, 2) Retention of 12.5sq.m extension to the west side of the original dwelling house, 3) Retention of a 130sq.m outbuilding to the rear of the dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7447
21 Mar 2014Conditional
Dwellinghouse, septic tank and associate site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4578
19 Nov 2012Conditional
Construction of dwelling and installation of treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6355
7 Sept 2011Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse, a garage for domestic purposes, installation of a proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5923
11 Mar 2008Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5359
8 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4657
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of overground steel slurry tank, general purpose livestock shed to cover soiled yard, 2 no. silage slabs and concrete apron, enlargement of existing cow collecting yard and installation of slurry channell and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9209
6 Jun 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse, stables, studio, garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7827
27 Apr 2005Conditional
Dormer Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2774
19 Nov 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8556
24 Jul 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/3662
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 Raheen.
Recorded monuments
- CO084-113 Moated site
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Hartnett (1939, 266) described subrectangular earthwork (300ft x 250ft), surviving to S as 'raised platform, 5 feet above old ground level'; external fosse 'can be traced forits whole circuit, across a "boreen" to the north and a third class road tothe north-east' (ibid.). South-west quadrant, hachured on 1903 and 1943 OS 6-inch maps, survives as scarp (H 1m). Farm buildings and house built in E half of interior. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheen.
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 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raheen.
- 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 Raheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Raheen · An Ráithín
- Area
- 1,506,329 m² (150.63 ha, 372.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockavilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Knockavilly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockavilly electoral division: 477 people in 145 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincourneenig, Ballymountain, Belrose, Kill, Knockaphreaghane, Russelhill
- Placenames
- Raheen 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.