Rahina
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Ráth Aidhne
- Area
- 21.4 ha
- 53 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 2,036 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahina, from 34 m² to 62,464 m² (6.25 ha, 15.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rahina 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of an extension to existing dwelling, construct garage, demolish boiler house attached to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22465
20 Nov 2020Conditional
the relocation of the front door from the South elevation to the West elevation, the installation of roof lights, an extension of the property to the North, alterations to the roof and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 201207
9 Apr 2020Conditional
construction of an extension to existing dwelling house, garage, demolition of boiler house attached to rear of existing dwelling house and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20306
23 Apr 2019Conditional
construction of a granny flat to the side of dwelling house with the demolition of existing shed, construction of an 'A' roof over existing rear extension to create first floor storage area, replace existing front door with window, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19384
3 Jan 2018Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 185
18 Dec 2017Conditional
a new two storey house complete with domestic garage, effluent treatment system and new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171192
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rahina.
Recorded monuments
- LI012-052 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
In level pasture on slight rise, 170m NE of the townland boundary with Elmpark Demesne. Present remains consist of a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 42m NNW-SSE x 56m WSW-ENE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (H 0.4m; base Wth 3.2m) from NE through to SE and a scarp (H 0.4m; base Wth 2.4m) from SE through to N. The interior is slightly undulating. The outline of the monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 and 25/03/2017 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahina.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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_878 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Rahina, Clarina6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Rahina · Ráth Aidhne
- Area
- 214,416 m² (21.44 ha, 52.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Clarina, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clarina electoral division: 1,993 people in 697 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrown, Ballycarney, Ballyduane, Camheen, Elmpark Demesne
- Placenames
- Rahina 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.