Raheen

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 60 m² to 99,392 m² (9.94 ha, 24.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 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.

• 22 Feb 2024Refused

  A TEN-YEAR PERMISSION FOR A GRID SERVICES FACILITY COMPRISING OF (1) AN ENCLOSED BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM COMPOUND CONTAINING BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE CONTAINERS, ELECTRICAL INVERTERS, TRANSFORMERS AND POWER CONTROL CENTRES, (2) AN ENCLOSED SYNCHRONOUS CONDENSER COMPOUND CONTAINING A HORIZONTAL SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR HOUSED WITHIN A SYNCHRONOUS CONDENSER BUILDING AND ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING A FLYWHEEL, TRANSFORMER, CIRCUIT BREAKER AND COOLING EQUIPMENT, (3) UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING, (4) SITE ENTRANCE FROM THE L7965-1 LOCAL ROAD, (5) ON-SITE ACCESS TRACK, (6) SECURITY FENCING AND SECURITY GATES, (7) POLE-MOUNTED SECURITY CAMERAS, (8) ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT, LANDSCAPING AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. THE OPERATIONAL LIFETIME OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS 35 YEARS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460197

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 Raheen.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-060 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed enclosure marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on the S slope of the valley of the River Erne. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Described in 1946 as 'West of the fort (DG107-061) and distant 100 feet from the outer bank, is the remians of a small D-shaped enclosure, some 60' long and 40' wide. The banks are low and wide and very ill-defined. From this enclosure a depression leads towards the fort (DG107-061). West of the field wall this is shallow and ill-defined, but east of the field wall it is deeper and clearly defined; it penetrates the outer bank of the fort and leads into the outer fosse. All the area of the fort within the outer bank is almost completely overgrown by furze, hazel, blackthorn &c. which made detalied examination difficult'(Corlett 2006, 58-9). Date of upload/revision: 15 May 2009

• DG107-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 16m. A small circular area enclosed by five earthen banks with four intervening fosses. Its situation on a small rise gives the banks a stepped effect. There are possible berms between the inner and second·banks and another possibly between the second and the third. There is a possible entrance on the NE side. A souterrain open in the 1940's is no longer visible. It could be followed from an opening in the SW just inside the inner bank, 10ft under the banks. Its walls were of drystone construction and it was roofed with flagstones. The site is now covered by a small tree plantation and the S side has been considerably damaged by road construction. A smaller enclosure immediately to the W is now gone. It is situated just above the high water of the Erne Dam but would originally have stood on the high ground just S of the river. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Described in 1946 as 'In the townland of Raheen, on the south side of the river. This will not be flooded, but will be partly destroyed by a new road, which will run between the fort and the railway. This fort crowns a small hill, and appears to have consisted of five banks and four fosses, with a total diameter of approximately 280 feet. The inner bank and fosse and the second bank are complete, except for some gaps (entrances or cattle tracks?). The other three banks and fosses are complete, except for gaps, on the north, west and south (about two thirds of the total diameter) but are broken down in a confusion of low mounds on the east. The outer bank merges into a field fence on the north-east side of the fort, and again on the south side. There is no fosse outside the outer bank. Immediately inside the inner bank, on the south west side, there is an opening to a souterrain (DG107-061001-), whether entrance or collapse is difficult to determine' (Corlett 2006, 58-9). Date of upload/revision: 14 May 2009

• DG107-061001 Souterrain
  Description

  Described in 1946 as 'In the townland of Raheen, on the south side of the river. This fort (DG107-061) crowns a small hill, and appears to have consisted of five banks and four fosses, with a total diameter of approximately 280 feet. Immediately inside the inner bank, on the south west side, there is an opening to a souterrain, whether entrance or collapse is difficult to determine. The souterrain was walled with dry masonry, and roofed with slabs, section about 12" x 8". It is now almost full of earth and mud, but appears to run clockwise for some ten feet at present, but a depression at the base of the rampary some 15 feet from the present opening may indicated a collpase of the souterrain roofing' (Corlett 2006, 58-9).

• DG107-069 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed enclosure marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on the S slope of the valley of the River Erne. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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).

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, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

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.

No address of the register names Raheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Raheen

Area

399,558 m² (39.96 ha, 98.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Carrickboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickboy electoral division: 389 people in 156 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhanna, Drumnagroagh, Killeen, Tully

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.