Rabbitburrow
Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Coinicéar
- Area
- 129.2 ha
- 319 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 5,222 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rabbitburrow, from 1,469 m² to 132,436 m² (13.24 ha, 32.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Rabbitburrow 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
9 Feb 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2611
10 Apr 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new site entrance, installation of wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560120
26 Mar 2025N/a
the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new site entrance, installation of wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated siteworks
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560093
1 Nov 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23409
1 Nov 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23410
31 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22455
13 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21203
13 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE DOMESTIC GARAGE SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21204
23 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONVENTIONAL SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20580
2 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO-STOREY FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18489
8 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FOUR BEDROOM ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18202
5 Jan 2018Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE PLANS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER GRANT OF PERMISSION REFERENCE PL2/10/155 AND EXTENDED BY EX15017
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 185
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 Rabbitburrow.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rabbitburrow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rabbitburrow.
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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_1853 (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
No address of the register names Rabbitburrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Rabbitburrow · An Coinicéar
- Area
- 1,291,513 m² (129.15 ha, 319.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Derrycooly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Derrycooly electoral division: 297 people in 92 households; 95% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Church Hill, Corcush, Derrinvullig, Glasshouse, Killaranny, Newtown, Oldtown, Rahan Demesne, Roscore Demesne
- Placenames
- Rabbitburrow 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.