Raheenagh

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenagh, from 503 m² to 447,457 m² (44.75 ha, 110.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Raheenagh 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.

• 21 Sept 2026N/a

  (a) demolition of existing dwelling house and (b) construct a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2661100

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/668

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267019

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  a change of design to the dwelling house from that previously granted under planning file 22/350

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560861

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  a dwelling house, attached garage, entrance boundary walls, wastewater treatment and disposal system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24412

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  existing prefabricated log cabin, effluent holding tank and all associated ancillary site works. Permission is also sought to construct a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and carry out of all associated ancillary site works

  Retention, 3 homes · Limerick County Council, 23326

• 22 Nov 2022Conditional

  the following: (1) As-constructed agricultural building comprising a hay store, loose house & machinery store. (2) Existing vehicular entrance and all associated ancillary site works. Planning permission is also sought for the construction of a new agricultural building comprising a machinery store and slatted unit with underground effluent storage tanks and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221230

• 20 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and install a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22691

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22372

• 30 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, detached garage, the installation of a wastewater treatment system, new vehicle entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22350

• 17 Jan 2022Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2240

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance and entrance walls, the installation of a mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211784

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a hard stand and base for poultry unit granted permission under planning ref. 20/758 using concrete, stone, blocks and tiles from the construction industry. A Certificate of Registration(COR) will be applied to Limerick City and County Council for this activity

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211715

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  to infill voids in field with soil and stone namely inert building waste to create agricultural land. A certificate of Registration (COR) will be applied to Limerick City and County Council for this activity

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211594

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of a poultry house, soiled water storage tank, machinery store and carry out all associated site works. The application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity requiring an Industrial Pollution & Control Licence, now replaced by an Industrial Emissions Licence. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report(EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211472

• 10 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of a pedestrian walkway connecting Killeedy GAA grounds to Killeedy EcoPark with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211148

• 18 May 2021Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21668

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced effluent treatment system, tertiary treatment filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21473

• 24 Nov 2020Conditional

  partially constructed dwelling house, permission to complete the construction of the dwelling house to include extensions and modifications from the original design, construct a domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls and the installation of an onsite mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201226

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  construction of one poultry house and all associated site works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20758

• 20 May 2019Conditional

  a broiler breeder house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19497

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19338

• 17 Jan 2019N/a

  construction of one poultry house and all associated site works. The development requires an EPA Industrial Emissions License (formerly Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control License). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1927

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  (a) demolition of existing hay store and straw bedded shed, (b) demolition of existing livestock waiting yard, (c) construction of an Agricultural Building to include cubicles, underground slatted tank, calving facilities & calf rearing facilities, (d) construction of a new livestock waiting yard and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181030

• 22 Aug 2018N/a

  a broiler breeder house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18835

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  the development of amenity and recreation facilities with associated landscape and signage works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18702

The 25 most recent of 27 applications.

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 Raheenagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-115 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.3m) with external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.5m). Gap (Wth 3m) in bank at ENE. Interior level, marshy and partially covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-116 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, on E side of stream. Most of Monument, depicted as embanked circular (diam. c. 25m) enclosure on 1924 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. Enclosing element is very slight earthen bank (H c. 0.15m) with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 4m). According to landowner interior of enclosure has been tilled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1m) with an external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.5m). Gaps in bank at WSW (Wth 5.8m) and SE (Wth 5.2m), but neither matched by causeway across fosse. Interior level and under pasture except perimeter which is overgrown by thorn bushes, as is enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 37m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.2m). Bank levelled and fosse infilled SW->WNW. Fosse re-cut as field drain N->WNW. Interior level and under grass except perimeter which is covered by overgrowth in places, as is enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) with external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 1.2m). Bank heavily eroded in places. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, now largely inaccessible as covered by dense overgrowth. Short sections of enclosing element are accessible showing it consists of earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (D 0.9m; Wth 1.2m). Gap (Wth 2m) in bank at ESE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-137 Mound
  Description

  In flat pasture. A square mound (19m E-W; 18m N-S; H 0.4m) with a fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.6m) at its base. The fosse is overlain by a field boundary on the S side. The top of the bank is slightly raised on its E side. The entire site is covered by grass. A ringfort (LI044-120-) is located 20 to the W, and another ringfort (LI044-121---) 40m to the NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Ita's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay double-height gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1865, having porch to front (west). Having gable-fronted projecting bay, three-bay single-storey addition and two-stage water tower to side (north). Pitched artificial slate roofs with uPVC clad eaves and uPVC rainwater goods. Bitumen clad flat roof to addition. Rendered flat roof to water tower. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth and platbands. Pointed arch window openings with render sills throughout, having render surround and timber-framed lead-lined stained glass window to front elevation of nave. Timber casement windows with intersecting timber tracery to side (north, south) elevations of nave. Round-headed window opening with render sill to side (north) elevation of projecting bay, having render surround and timber casement window. Square-headed window openings with render sills and surrounds to addition, having timber casement windows. Tripartite timber casement window to side (north) elevation of addition. Square-headed door openings with raised render reveals throughout, having double-leaf glazed timber doors to front elevation of porch surmounted by single-pane overlight with etched cross. Glazed timber door flanked by glazed timber sidelights to side (west) elevation of addition. Double-leaf louvered timber doors to side (east) elevation of addition. Timber battened door to side (south) elevation of water tower. Composite tiled ceiling to interior with render surrounds to windows. Pointed arch recess to chancel with rendered surround, accommodating white marble panel within black polychrome marble surrounds framing central pedestal surmounted by shrine with brass plaque. Carved marble altar with polychrome panels and engaged columns. Recent cast-iron framed belfry to north-west of site within rubble stone enclosing wall with dressed limestone coping. Splayed entrance with square-profile tooled limestone piers, rendered enclosing wall with tooled limestone coping, single and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• Post box, 1850–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron letter box, installed c. 1890, bearing raised lettering to hood over opening and manufacture's name to base of front (south-west) elevation. Mounted in rough-cast render pier with render plinth and capping forming part of entrance to presbytery associated with Saint Ita's Roman Catholic Church.

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

At the centre of the townland of Raheenagh, about 1 in 10 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Raheenagh · Ráithíneach

Area

3,614,295 m² (361.43 ha, 893.11 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Ballintober, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 131 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahawilk, Ballintober East, Ballintober South, Ballyduhig, Camas, Clooncon, Clooncon, Darrery, Gorteen, Kilcoorha, Killeedy North, Killeedy South, Moanroe More

Placenames

Raheenagh 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.