# Rahill, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Duleek, barony of Duleek Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 300,432 m² (30.04 ha, 74.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 142,373 m² (14.24 ha, 35.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Duleek, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/duleek.md - Barony: Duleek Lower - Electoral division: Duleek, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,250 people lived in 2,005 households in the Duleek electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38408 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161345 - Centre: latitude 53.657617, longitude -6.4869 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahill, from 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 155,888 m² (15.59 ha, 38.52 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5720858: 155,888 m² (15.59 ha, 38.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5720858.md - Parcel 207214: 142,373 m² (14.24 ha, 35.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/207214.md - Parcel 137701: 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137701.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 13 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 1 Jun 2023, Meath County Council 23576: Conditional. Permission. a ten year permission and 35 year operation life for a solar farm described herein. The total site area for the proposed development is 188.9 hectares consisting of the following: solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames and associated hard standing, inverter/transformer stations, underground power and communication cables and ducts, boundary security fence, CCTV cameras, upgraded internal access tracks, new internal access tracks, 2 no. new site entrances along the L5608 local road, underground electrical and communications cabling for approximately 700m along the L5608 local road and all associated services and development works including drainage infrastructure, temporary construction compound and landscaing. As part of a separate Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID) application for consent, consent will be sought for the provision of a 110kV onsite electrical substation and associated works from An Bord Pleanala. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information/revised plans sbumitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/23576/0 - 11 May 2023, Meath County Council 23499: N/a. Permission. a ten year permission and 35 year operation life for a solar farm described herein. The total site area for the proposed development is 188.9 hectares consisting of the following: solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames and associated hard standing, inverter/transformer stations, underground power and communication cables and ducts, boundary security fence, CCTV cameras, upgraded internal access tracks, new internal access tracks, 2 no. new site entrances along the L5608 local road, underground electrical and communications cabling for approximately 700m along the L5608 local road and all associated services and development works including drainage infrastructure, temporary construction compound and landscaing. As part of a separate Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID) application for consent, consent will be sought fo rthe provision of a 110kV onsite electrical substation and associated works from An Bord Pleanala. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/23499/0 - 13 May 2022, Meath County Council 22617: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a proposed storey and a half style dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, private well, entrance onto public roadway and all ancillaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22617/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Thomastown Bog, site code 001593 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rahill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahill. ## 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 Rahill, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahill. - 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/meath/rahill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/rahill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/rahill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumman: https://everytownland.com/meath/drumman.md - Garballagh: https://everytownland.com/meath/garballagh.md - Kellystown: https://everytownland.com/meath/kellystown-160920.md - Knockcommon: https://everytownland.com/meath/knockcommon.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. --- 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/meath/rahill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/rahill