Rahanna

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahanna, from 50 m² to 183,311 m² (18.33 ha, 45.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rahanna 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.

• 20 Feb 2023Conditional

  The development consists of an outdoor room with a monopitch roof and garden walls

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360018

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  Outline permission sought to construct a dwelling and all site development works including new proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter and access to public roadway

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21554

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 Rahanna.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rahanna.

Architectural heritage

• Rahanna House, worker's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey with attic former head gardener's house, built c. 1880, now in private domestic use. Rectangular-plan, extension to east c.1980, attached to walled garden to south-east, built 1823. Pitched slate roof, crested clay ridge tiles, ball finials to east and west gables, painted timber bargeboards to gables, yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on yellow brick brackets at, circular cast-iron downpipes. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond to yellow brick string course at eaves. Square-headed brick- arched window openings, decorative terracotta keystone, granite sills, painted timber casement windows to north elevation with diamond leaded lights; canted bay to west elevation, painted timber colonettes separating painted timber casement windows with fixed diamond pane leaded lights. Square-headed door opening under lean-to roof supported by painted timber brackets, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, surmounted by plain glazed overlight with decorative terracotta keystone. Walled gardens to south-east, red brick walling to north, east and west interior walls, random rubble stone wall to south. Greenhouse with red brick plinth wall, stone coping surmounted by timber and glazed panels and pitched glazed roof. Former gardener's house and walled garden contained within grounds of Rahanna House.

• Rahanna House, country house, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1823. Single and two-storey return to west, stone porch to east. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks with stone caps and clay pots; projecting eaves on painted timber sprockets; profiled cast-iron gutter, circular cast-iron downpipes. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, roughcast-render to basement and west elevation, chamfered tooled limestone plinth, slight recess to central-bay above entrance porch. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, smooth rendered reveals, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, cast-iron window guards to basement and west elevation, painted timber tripartite sliding sash windows over entrance porch, multiple-pane stained glass stairwell window to west elevation. Square-headed door opening to east elevation set in tooled limestone porch comprising paired Doric columns on pedestals, simple frieze, cornice and balustrade parapet, painted timber double doors with six raised-and-fielded panels, plain-glazed overlight, stone steps. House situated in extensive grounds, stone outbuildings, walled garden and associated gardener's house to west. Boundary wall of vertically-laid flat stones to north-west accessed through wrought-iron gates with cast-iron gate piers.

• Rahanna House, farmyard complex, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four ranges of multiple-bay single- and two-storey stone stables, built 1823, attached to farm buildings to west. Stableyard with two-storey range to south and west, single-storey range to north and east, farmyard to west with freestanding iron hayshed and single-storey west range, walled garden to south, gardener's house. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, circular metal roof vents, moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes, ashlar limestone bellcote to west gable of north range, pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted timber canopy supported on cast-iron columns to south-east. Random rubble uncoursed walling, roughly dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, lugged-and-kneed limestone surrounds, limestone sills, painted timber three-over-three sliding sash windows, segmental-headed opening to eastern range, red brick infill, square-headed brick arched window opening, painted timber three-over-six south window. Square-headed door openings, lugged, shouldered and kneed limestone door surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, segmental-headed carriage arches to west range. Random rubble stone steps to south. Well to north-east. Cobblestones to yard area. Farm complex to west with hay barn, random rubble stone outbuildings, accessed through wrought-iron gates within square-profile random rubble stone gate piers. Situated to west of Rahanna House and to north of walled garden.

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 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_2858 (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.

No address of the register names Rahanna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Rahanna · Ráth Eanchú

Area

626,823 m² (62.68 ha, 154.89 acres)

Civil parish

Charlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Ardee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Artnalevery, Charlestown, Cookstown, Harristown, Mullacloe, Mullanstown

Placenames

Rahanna 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.