# Rahard, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tuoghcluggin, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Ráth Ard.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 387,745 m² (38.77 ha, 95.81 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,868 m² (3.39 ha, 8.37 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tuoghcluggin, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/tuoghcluggin.md
- Barony: Coonagh
- Electoral division: Templebredon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32497
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121711
- Centre: latitude 52.521965, longitude -8.305035 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1658051: 129,353 m² (12.94 ha, 31.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658051.md
- Parcel 1655847: 89,797 m² (8.98 ha, 22.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655847.md
- Parcel 3903640: 62,796 m² (6.28 ha, 15.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3903640.md
- Parcel 1655844: 45,630 m² (4.56 ha, 11.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655844.md
- Parcel 3903663: 33,868 m² (3.39 ha, 8.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3903663.md
- Parcel 1655843: 15,758 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655843.md
- Parcel 1616108: 4,081 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616108.md
- Parcel 1610327: 3,642 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610327.md
- Parcel 1590010: 2,143 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590010.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## 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 Rahard.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI033-042: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-042----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-044----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-166----. 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

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 Rahard.

## 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 Rahard, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahard.
- 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/limerick/rahard.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rahard.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rahard.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Garryheakin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garryheakin.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-121644.md
- Newtown North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-north.md
- Newtown South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-south.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.

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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/limerick/rahard
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/rahard