Rahard

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahard, from 2,143 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 129,353 m² (12.94 ha, 31.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Rahard 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rahard in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rahard.

Recorded monuments

• LI033-042 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet pasture 60m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Newtown. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform 10m N of farm track running E-W and 80m NW of a spring. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. 16m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with external fosse (top Wth 5.9m; base Wth 1.9m; D 0.15m) visible from SE-WSW. E side of monument is irregular in shape and may have been altered in antiquity. Described in 1960 as a; ’low platform 60 feet (18m) in diameter and 3 feet [0.9m] high with faint traces of a bank at its edge. Portion of the eastern half shows signs of disturbance’ (O’Dwyer 1960, 98; Rahard 76). Outline of levelled monument visible as a cropmark defined by a circular growth of rushes on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018 where a drainage ditch to E divides wet pasture from drier land. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and profile of monument drawn by O'Dwyer 1964 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 March 2021

• LI033-044 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In wet pasture 10m S of a stream and field boundary that marks the townland boundary with Newtown. Barrow (LI033-166----) 50m to SE. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 15m) defined by a scarp. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 10.8m; H 0.35m) from SE to W reduced to a scarp elsewhere with an outer fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.15m) only visible from S-SW. Described in 1964 as a; ‘Platform 60 feet (18m) in diameter and 1 foot (0.3m) high. Encircled by a shallow ditch, 2 feet (0.6m) wide’ (O’Dwyer 1960-1964, 98; Rahard 77). Outline of monument visible as cropmark defined by fosse on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and profile of monument drawn by O'Dwyer Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 March 2021

• LI033-166 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  The cropmark of a possible ringbarrow is evident on Google Earth aerial photographs, at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 4 September 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Rahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rahard · An Ráth Ard

Area

387,745 m² (38.77 ha, 95.81 acres)

Civil parish

Tuoghcluggin, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Templebredon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

588 people lived in 197 households in the Templebredon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garryheakin, Newtown, Newtown North, Newtown South

Placenames

Rahard 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.