# Rahilla Commons, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kildare, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare; in Irish Coimín Ráth Choille. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 83,842 m² (8.38 ha, 20.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/kildare.md - Barony: Offaly East - Electoral division: Dunmurry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25795 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81029 - Centre: latitude 53.191664, longitude -6.931811 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahilla Commons; 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 3 Nov 2020, Kildare County Council 201325: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201325/0 - 2 Nov 2018, Kildare County Council 181328: Refused. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181328/0 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 Rahilla Commons. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rahilla Commons. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahilla Commons. ## 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 Rahilla Commons, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahilla Commons. - 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/kildare/rahilla-commons.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rahilla-commons.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rahilla-commons.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Dunmurry West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dunmurry-west.md - Rahilla Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rahilla-glebe.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/kildare/rahilla-commons - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/rahilla-commons