Rahilla Commons

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahilla Commons. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Rahilla Commons 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.

• 3 Nov 2020Refused

  is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational period of up to 30 years for a ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farm on a site area of 49.74 hectares within the site of the Dunmurry Springs Golf Club. The proposed development consists of solar photovoltaic panels covering an area of up to 92,024 m² on ground mounted steel frames; 1 no. 38 kV on-site substation/control room and palisade fencing; up to 10 no. inverter/transformer container units; underground cabling and ducts; boundary security fence; use of existing entrance to public road at Dunmurry Springs Golf Club; new and upgraded internal access tracks; upgrade of an existing maintenance access onto the public road; construction of a maintenance shed; CCTV cameras; 1 no. temporary site compound; landscaping and all ancillary site services and works within the townlands of

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201325

• 2 Nov 2018Refused

  The development consist / consists of a ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farm within a site area of 26 hectares consisting of solar photovoltaic panels covering an area of up to 185,000m2 on ground mounted steel frames, 1 no; on-site substation / control room and palisade fencing, up to 5 no. inverter / transformer stations, underground cables and ducts, boundary security fence, use of existing entrance to public road at Dunmurray Springs Golf Club, upgrade to parts of existing track from the public road to the proposed solar farm, new and upgraded internal tracks, CCTV cameras, two temporary site compounds and all associated site services and works located within townlands. Permission is sought for 10 years.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181328

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 Rahilla Commons.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rahilla Commons.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rahilla Commons, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rahilla Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Rahilla Commons · Coimín Ráth Choille

Area

83,842 m² (8.38 ha, 20.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kildare, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Dunmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

504 people lived in 155 households in the Dunmurry electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunmurry West, Rahilla Glebe

Placenames

Rahilla Commons 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.