# Rahoonagh West, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Rathúnach Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,479,391 m² (147.94 ha, 365.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,189 m² (3.12 ha, 7.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyvourney, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ballyvourney.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Derryfineen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 242 people lived in 85 households in the Derryfineen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11349 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44718 - Centre: latitude 51.921802, longitude -9.136113 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahoonagh West, from 1,271 m² to 446,669 m² (44.67 ha, 110.37 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2201369: 446,669 m² (44.67 ha, 110.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201369.md - Parcel 2201372: 239,788 m² (23.98 ha, 59.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201372.md - Parcel 2201366: 184,482 m² (18.45 ha, 45.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201366.md - Parcel 2286958: 148,963 m² (14.9 ha, 36.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286958.md - Parcel 2286962: 130,430 m² (13.04 ha, 32.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286962.md - Parcel 2201365: 88,735 m² (8.87 ha, 21.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201365.md - Parcel 2201368: 87,358 m² (8.74 ha, 21.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201368.md - Parcel 2286960: 57,931 m² (5.79 ha, 14.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286960.md - Parcel 2286957: 55,159 m² (5.52 ha, 13.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286957.md - Parcel 2201373: 7,219 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201373.md - Parcel 2286961: 7,000 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286961.md - Parcel 2201370: 5,837 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201370.md - Parcel 2201371: 5,004 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201371.md - Parcel 2286963: 4,766 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286963.md - Parcel 2201364: 4,573 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201364.md - Parcel 2201367: 2,327 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2201367.md - Parcel 2286964: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286964.md - Parcel 2286959: 1,271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2286959.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rahoonagh West 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) 13 applications, newest first. - 8 Aug 2026, Cork County Council 26/2103: Awaiting f.i. response. Permission. Permission for construction of a detached single-storey ancillary pool house incorporating an internal swimming pool and associated changing, plant and storage facilities, together with all associated site development works including revisions to the approved site layout where required, hard and soft landscaping, drainage, utility connections and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate and integrate the proposed development with the previously permitted dwelling house under Planning Register Reference No. 26/0267.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2103 - 6 Feb 2026, Cork County Council 26/0267: Grant with conditions. Permission. The construction of a part two-storey, part single storey detached dwelling with integral carport, creation of a new site entrance with gates and pillars, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new well and associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/0267 - 1 Nov 2024, Cork County Council 24/6062: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission for construction of new dwelling house, new entrance, wastewater treatment system, together with all other ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/6062 - 19 Sept 2024, Cork County Council 24/5778: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for construction of new dwelling house, new entrance, wastewater treatment system, together with all other ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5778 - 6 Aug 2024, Cork County Council 24/5490: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for construction of new dwellinghouse, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5490 - 8 Oct 2013, Cork County Council 13/5924: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a domestic garage and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/5924 - 16 Jul 2007, Cork County Council 07/9604: Conditional. Permission. Completion of dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/9604 - 1 Jun 2007, Cork County Council 07/8353: Incompleted application. Extension of duration. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/8353 - 23 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/12619: Conditional. Approval. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/12619 - 23 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/11668: Incompleted application. Permission consequent. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/11668 - 2 Jun 2004, Cork County Council 04/3942: Conditional. Permission. Extension of slatted unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/3942 - 10 Mar 2004, Cork County Council 04/1591: Withdrawn. Permission. Extension to slatted house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/1591 - 28 Feb 2003, Cork County Council 03/872: Conditional. Approval. Dwelling and treatment plant. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/872 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rahoonagh West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO069-017: Clapper bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO069-017----. Crossing River Douglas at angle. Bridge 19m in length, formed by eleven slabs (L c. 1.9m; Wth c. 0.55m; T 0.12m) supported on eight rough masonry piers (H 0.9m). Slabs at SE end have fallen into river. 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 Rahoonagh West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rahoonagh West, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahoonagh West. - 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/rahoonagh-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahoonagh-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahoonagh-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rahoonagh West 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) - Cahercarney: https://everytownland.com/cork/cahercarney.md - Cloheena: https://everytownland.com/cork/cloheena.md - Gortanacra: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortanacra.md - Gortanimill: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortanimill.md - Rahoonagh East: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahoonagh-east.md - Toonlane: https://everytownland.com/cork/toonlane.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/rahoonagh-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/rahoonagh-west