# Rahavanig, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilconly, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,048,152 m² (104.82 ha, 259 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,057 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilconly, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilconly.md - Barony: Iraghticonnor - Electoral division: Gullane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23959 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72360 - Centre: latitude 52.531002, longitude -9.634492 (WGS 84) ## 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); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1224434: 506,824 m² (50.68 ha, 125.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224434.md - Parcel 1233846: 115,873 m² (11.59 ha, 28.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233846.md - Parcel 1233843: 76,737 m² (7.67 ha, 18.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233843.md - Parcel 1233844: 70,699 m² (7.07 ha, 17.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233844.md - Parcel 1223710: 45,757 m² (4.58 ha, 11.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223710.md - Parcel 1215335: 40,181 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215335.md - Parcel 1233845: 36,617 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233845.md - Parcel 1157570: 31,023 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157570.md - Parcel 1215336: 30,636 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215336.md - Parcel 1213487: 24,817 m² (2.48 ha, 6.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213487.md - Parcel 1213552: 23,057 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213552.md - Parcel 1235779: 15,411 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235779.md - Parcel 1213524: 13,949 m² (1.39 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213524.md - Parcel 1154924: 4,775 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1154924.md - Parcel 1142974: 3,268 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1142974.md - Parcel 1235778: 2,695 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235778.md - Parcel 1151657: 2,154 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151657.md - Parcel 1210303: 1,106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210303.md - Parcel 5600226: 617 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5600226.md - Parcel 5600243: 600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5600243.md - Parcel 5135840: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5135840.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 3 Feb 2026, Kerry County Council 2660067: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660067/0 - 16 Aug 2019, Kerry County Council 19866: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19866/0 - 13 Apr 2017, Kerry County Council 17336: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT A CALVING / CALF HOUSE, EFFLUENT TANK, SILAGE BASE EXTENSION AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17336/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rahavanig. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE004-010: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE004-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE004-069----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE004-070----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahavanig. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rahavanig, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahavanig.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahavanig.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahavanig.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bromore East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bromore-east.md - Doon East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doon-east.md - Farranpierce: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranpierce.md - Tulla Beg: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tulla-beg.md - Tulla More: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tulla-more.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahavanig - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/rahavanig