Raheen Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork; in Irish An Ráithín Beag
- Area
- 30.6 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,269 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen Beg, from 687 m² to 283,612 m² (28.36 ha, 70.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Business and General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Demolition of existing place of worship and construction of a new place of worship along with building signage; external lighting for health and safety purposes; site works to accommodate accessible and general parking spaces; removal of outbuilding; replacement outbuilding; boundary treatments; and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0989
6 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Demolition of existing place of worship and construction of a new place of worship along with building signage; external lighting for health and safety purposes; site works to accommodate accessible and general parking spaces; removal of outbuilding; replacement outbuilding; boundary treatments; and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0252
23 Nov 2022Conditional
Demolition of existing place of worship and shed to include removal of septic tank and connection to public sewer and construction of new place of worship and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/715
15 Jul 2016Unconditional
The provision of 1 no wind turbine of hub height 54.5m to serve the existing plastic factory.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/457
21 Jun 2012Conditional
A) Demolition of dwelling house and store B) Permission to construct a dwelling house including all associate site works C) Renovation of existing stone ruin for use as a store D) Creation of an agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/407
13 Feb 2012Conditional
To construct dwelling & domestic garage, connection of foul sewer to mains sewer and for the change of use of the existing agricultural entrance to serve the proposed development
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/78
4 Feb 2011Withdrawn
A) Construct dwelling and domestic garage with storage area and dog kennels within (for hobby use) B) Connect foul sewer to mains sewer on public road C) Change of use of existing agricultural entrance to serve the proposed development
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/55
31 Jan 2011Conditional
The provision of 1no. wind turbine of hub height 40m and blade tip height 54.5m to serve the existing plastic factory
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/47
26 Feb 2010Withdrawn
A) construct dwelling and domestic garage with storage area and dog kennels within (for hobby use) B) connect foul sewer to mains sewer on public road. C) change of use of existing agricultural entrance to serve the proposed development
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/137
30 Jan 2009Conditional
Site development works for 4no. serviced sites for future industrial/warehousing units to include new access road, paths, services and definition of site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/80
25 Mar 2004Conditional
Erection of a 38kv overhead line from Glanta windfarm in Dromourneen to the 110kv ESB station in Ballylicky
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1990
29 Jan 2002Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 02/288
28 Feb 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 00/1023
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 Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheen Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheen Beg.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raheen Beg.
- 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 Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Raheen Beg · An Ráithín Beag
- Area
- 306,096 m² (30.61 ha, 75.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmocomoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Bantry Rural, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherdaniel East, Cahernacrin, Drombrow, Raheen More
- Placenames
- Raheen Beg 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.