Raheenroche

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenroche, from 371 m² to 509,985 m² (51 ha, 126.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Raheenroche 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.

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed, livestock handling facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660051

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  for a proposed new dormer style dwelling, proposed vehicular entrance, proposed driveway, borewell, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, stormwater soakaways, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 23130

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  for a proposed upgrade and repositioning of wastewater treatment system and percolation area for existing dwelling, relation of borewell, boundary change and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 23131

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct an extension and make modifications to a slatted cubicle house, associated concrete yard and site works. In addition Retention Permission for modifications to a slatted tank

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22167

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle house, associated retaining wall, concrete yard and site works,

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20502

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 Raheenroche.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheenroche.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Raheenroche with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Raheenroche · Ráithín an Róistigh

Area

2,966,351 m² (296.64 ha, 733 acres)

Civil parish

Dungarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Graiguenamanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graiguenamanagh electoral division: 1,860 people in 719 households; 71% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bramblestown, Castlegarden, Cloghscregg, Coppanagh, Kilmanaheen, Moanteenmore, Scart

Placenames

Raheenroche 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.