Rahulk
Rahulk is a townland in the civil parish of Kinsaley, barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Ráth Ulc.
- Area
- 54.6 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 1,710 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahulk, from 28 m² to 368,702 m² (36.87 ha, 91.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 13 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
21 Nov 2025App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months
The development of a football training facility comprising: (a) clubho
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1081E
13 Sept 2023Grant permission
Jackie Greene Construction Ltd. intemd to apply for planning permissio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0543
7 Feb 2023Grant permission
The propsed revisions to the permitted development comprise of the fol
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0036
9 Aug 2021Grant permission for retention
Retention permission of velux rooflights to front and rear roofslopes,
Retention · Fingal County Council, F21B/0292
27 Oct 2020Grant permission
Alterations to previously approved planning application F19A/0605 whic
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0533
13 Dec 2019Grant permission
Demolition of existing single storey extension. Removal of existing p
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0605
20 Jun 2017Grant permission
Permission for amendments to previously approved application (F16A/015
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0350
6 Mar 2017Grant permission
The development will consist of decommissioning of the existing concre
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0471
19 Sept 2016Grant permission
Construction of 46 no. two storey dwellings (4 no. detached four bedro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0152
14 Mar 2012Refuse ext. of duration of permission
The development of an integrated tourism/recreational facility on a si
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F05A/0167/E1
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 Rahulk.
Recorded monuments
- DU015-122 Enclosure
Description
A sub-rectangular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with a ring-ditch located inside (DU015-122001-) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 6 November 2013
- DU015-122001 Ring-ditch
Description
A ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph located within a sub-rectangular enclosure (DU015-122----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahulk.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3251 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rahulk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Rahulk · Ráth Ulc
- Area
- 545,535 m² (54.55 ha, 134.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinsaley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolock
- Electoral division
- Kinsaley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 11,470 people lived in 3,746 households in the Kinsaley electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 69% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacartle, Baskin, Cloghran, Drinan, Feltrim, Greenwood, Marshallstown
- Placenames
- Rahulk 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.