Rahavanig
Rahavanig is a townland in the civil parish of Kilconly, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 104.8 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 23,057 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahavanig, from 110 m² to 506,824 m² (50.68 ha, 125.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Rahavanig 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Feb 2026Conditional
for the construction of a detached single storey domestic garage to rear and Planning Permission for a new on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660067
16 Aug 2019Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19866
13 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A CALVING / CALF HOUSE, EFFLUENT TANK, SILAGE BASE EXTENSION AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17336
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 Rahavanig.
Recorded monuments
- KE004-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 36m Rathfinnoge/Ráth an Mhianaigh (ringfort of the mine). Situated in the corner of a large field, the land immediately surrounding this site is boggy and used for rough grazing. This circular univallate rath is enclosed by an earthen bank and exterior fosse. The bank has been slightly cut to the W by a fieldbank running NNW-SSE. The enclosing bank is on average 1.3m high externally and .8m above the interior. On average the width of the bank at the base measures 5.3m. An external fosse is evident from the NE through E to SW. It measures c 2m wide and .7m below the height of the surrounding land. Three gaps appear in the bank to the E, SW and NW measuring 3m, 2.6m and 2m respectively. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 244. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE004-069 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
Cropmark of possible ditch-barrow identified by Dr Séamus Ó Murchú and described as; 'In rough pasture proposed for afforestation. Visible as circular earthwork in pasture/ rough pasture field in modern aerial imagery clear of scrub. Visible some 65m to the west of the previously unrecorded Ringfort This feature measures c. 15m in diameter and appears to be defined by an earthen bank. It is best visible on the 2013 to 2018 Mapgenie aerial imagery but is also evident on the 1996 to 2000 MapGenie aerial imagery'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr Séamus Ó Murchú
- KE004-070 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Possible ringfort cropmark identified by Dr Séamus Ó Murchú and described as; 'In rough pasture proposed for afforestation. Visible as circular earthwork in pasture/ rough pasture field in modern aerial imagery clear of scrub. Visible on the 1995 Mapgenie aerial imagery, 1996 to 2000 MapGenie aerial imagery, 2001 – 2005 Mapgenie aerial imagery, 2006 to 2012 MapGenie aerial imagery (best), 2011 to 2013 Mapgenie aerial imagery and 2013 to 2018 Mapgenie aerial imagery. The previously unrecorded Ringfort measures c. 35m in diameter (NW – SE) and appears to be defined by a levelled earthen bank and an external fosse. The feature is consistently visible to varying degrees across all editions of the available modern aerial imagery'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr Séamus Ó Murchú
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahavanig.
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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahavanig.
- 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 Rahavanig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Rahavanig
- Area
- 1,048,152 m² (104.82 ha, 259 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilconly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Gullane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 278 people lived in 112 households in the Gullane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bromore East, Doon East, Farranpierce, Tulla Beg, Tulla More
- Placenames
- Rahavanig 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.