# Raheen Upper, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Ráithín Dornóige Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 963,608 m² (96.36 ha, 238.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,973 m² (4.1 ha, 10.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Donaghmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Donaghmore electoral division: 273 people in 99 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27907 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100934 - Centre: latitude 52.876823, longitude -7.589469 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen Upper, from 534 m² to 278,456 m² (27.85 ha, 68.81 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 262896: 278,456 m² (27.85 ha, 68.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262896.md - Parcel 232861: 186,580 m² (18.66 ha, 46.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232861.md - Parcel 255882: 134,318 m² (13.43 ha, 33.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255882.md - Parcel 265729: 125,055 m² (12.51 ha, 30.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265729.md - Parcel 3969372: 71,087 m² (7.11 ha, 17.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3969372.md - Parcel 226457: 61,392 m² (6.14 ha, 15.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226457.md - Parcel 246906: 40,973 m² (4.1 ha, 10.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246906.md - Parcel 2458432: 37,170 m² (3.72 ha, 9.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458432.md - Parcel 228150: 13,662 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228150.md - Parcel 260803: 4,771 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260803.md - Parcel 242820: 4,383 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242820.md - Parcel 225810: 3,780 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225810.md - Parcel 227514: 534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/227514.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Raheen Upper 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. - 31 Jan 2023, Laois County Council 2331: N/a. Permission. erect a steel constructed domestic garage for general purpose use and to include all associated ground works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2331/0 - 16 Aug 2019, Laois County Council 19468: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. construct dwelling house, entrance and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19468/0 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 Raheen Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA028-029: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA028-029----. Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a circular 'fort' (diam. c. 40m). In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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 Raheen Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility 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_1882, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1882.zip (ZIP). - 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/laois/raheen-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/raheen-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/raheen-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Raheen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/laois/castletown-100296.md - Donaghmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/donaghmore.md - Raheen Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/raheen-lower.md - Raheenphelan Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/raheenphelan-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/laois/raheen-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/raheen-upper