Raggetsland
Townland in the civil parish of St. Patrick's, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Fearann an Ragadaigh
- Area
- 39.4 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,604 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raggetsland, from 11 m² to 76,364 m² (7.64 ha, 18.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Raggetsland 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
22 Jul 2025Conditional
for the importation of approximately 2,350sq.m. of top and subsoil to the existing agricultural field of 1.27 hectares and all associated site and development works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560444
13 Apr 2023Conditional
to retain storage sheds, including all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2390
12 Oct 2021Conditional
for existing holiday cottage to continue as a holiday cottage. This is a Protected Structure Ref. No. 831
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21851
16 Aug 2021N/a
for existing holiday cottage to continue as a holiday cottage
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21702
16 Mar 2020Conditional
of a rear domestic garage building
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20167
18 Feb 2019Conditional
for extension to side of existing single storey dwelling providing self contained family flat and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1986
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 Raggetsland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raggetsland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raggetsland.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2194 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Raggetsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Raggetsland · Fearann an Ragadaigh
- Area
- 394,370 m² (39.44 ha, 97.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Patrick's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkenny Rural electoral division: 18,603 people in 6,480 households; 64% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cox's Fields, Danville, Furzehouse, Joinersfolly, Kilferagh, Outrath, Warrington
- Placenames
- Raggetsland 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.