Raherneen

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raherneen, from 1,537 m² to 79,581 m² (7.96 ha, 19.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Raherneen 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.

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct an extension and carry out alterations to an existing dwelling house including constructing a Car Port and an Independent Living Unit and all Associated Works. Gross floor area of works: 87.00 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560411

• 11 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, storage shed, wastewater treatment system and all associated services . Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling House 115.9m2 & Garage 29.99m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260217

• 9 Feb 2022Conditional

  construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 193.60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260083

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the following: 1. the refurbishment of a derelict cottage, 2. An extension and alterations to the existing derelict cottage, 3. The demolition and reconstruction and extension of the existing shed for use as an amenity room and storage shed and 4. The construction of a new wastewater treatment system, 5. And all associated works all on a revised site layout, on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under planning reference number 11-270. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 140.72 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212237

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 Raherneen.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-140 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Encompassing a ridge in otherwise level marshy grassland, c. 120m to the S of the Dooyertha River. This subcircular rath (38m N-S; 36m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a bank, which is overlain by a field wall at E. A gap (Wth c. 3m) at SE appears to be original. (McCaffrey 1952, 170, no. 8) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1987). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA097-141 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the W half of a cashel (GA097-141001-). This children's burial ground is defined by an irregular unenclosed area (30m N-S; 15m E-W) within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. One inscribed 18th-C grave-marker is dedicated to the O'Daly's of nearby Dunsandle. (McCaffrey 1952, 170, no. 13) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA097-141001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure and on the 1933 edition as a rectangular enclosure. It consists of an oval cashel (45m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A gap (Wth 9m) at NE may be original. No visible surface trace survives of the entrance at S or the fosse and outer bank noted by McCaffrey (1952, 170, no. 13). There is a children’s burial ground (GA097-141----) in the W half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Raherneen.

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 Raherneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Raherneen · Ráth Eirnín

Area

496,960 m² (49.7 ha, 122.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconierin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconierin electoral division: 741 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherakilleen, Cahernalee, Carrowrevagh, Greyford, Lisnadrisha, Skeagharegan

Placenames

Raherneen 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.