Raha

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raha, from 118 m² to 224,784 m² (22.48 ha, 55.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Raha 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.

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  of a shed to the rear of the dwelling house, change of use of a garage to one bedroom annex (previous planning granted 09/1763) and changes to the dwelling house (previous planning granted 021892)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660318

• 10 Aug 2022Refused

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services (Gross Floor space of proposed works House 180sqm, Garage 48sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22957

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 220 sqm, Garage 55.2 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212023

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  for the Construction of a new slatted shed & sheep shed and all associated ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 775.86 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 355.68 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21528

• 4 Dec 2020Unconditional

  for dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: house 156.7sqm & garage 55.2sqm. Previous planning permission: 15/808.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 201847

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  for dwelling house as constructed on revised site boundaries and permission is being sought to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 189.5 msq.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201339

• 25 May 2018Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 178.5 sqm. (garage) 56 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18691

• 14 Jul 2017Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services (Gross Floor space of proposed works House 180sqm, Garage 48sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171050

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA 002431

Recorded monuments

• GA054-062 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Prominently situated on the summit of Knockacarna, a low hill to NE of Buffy Lough. Sub-circular flat-topped cairn of angular stones (N-S 19.5m, E-W c. 18m, H 2.15m). There is a large area of disturbance on E side. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raha.

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

At the centre of the townland of Raha, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raha.

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.

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

Name

Raha · An Rátha

Area

916,693 m² (91.67 ha, 226.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buffy, Carrowndulla, Drimnahoon, Drimneen, Maghera Beg, Maghera More

Placenames

Raha 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.