Raheenakeeran

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenakeeran, from 344 m² to 1,573,827 m² (157.38 ha, 388.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Raheenakeeran 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.

• 4 Dec 2025Conditional

  a Bungalow Type Dwelling & Domestic Garage with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560617

• 24 Nov 2025N/a

  a Bungalow Type Dwelling & Domestic Garage with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560586

• 26 Oct 2023Conditional

  (i) the continued operation of the existing 80 metre meteorological mast which was erected as exempted development in accordance with Class 20A, Schedule 2, of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) and all ancillary infrastructure for a period of up to five years

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360162

• 3 Aug 2023N/a

  OF THE EXISTING 80 METRE METEOROLOGICAL MAST WHICH WAS ERECTED AS EXEMPTED DEVELOPMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLASS 20A, SCHEDULE 2, OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATION 2001 (AS AMENDED) AND ALL ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE; AND PERMISSION FOR THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE EXISTING METEOROLOGICAL MAST FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO FIVE YEARS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23351

• 20 Jul 2023N/a

  (I) THE EXISTING 80 METRE METEOROLOGICAL MAST, WHICH WAS ERECTED AS EXEMPTED DEVELOPMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLASS 20A, SCHEDULE 2, OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (AS AMENDED), AND ALL ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE; AND (II) PERMISSION FOR THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE EXISTING METEOROLOGICAL MAST FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO FIVE YEARS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23338

• 8 Mar 2022Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DETACHED BUNGALOW WITH PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY FRONT AND SIDE EXTENSION, MODIFICATIONS OF EXISTING FACADES OF EXISTING BUNGALOW AND NEW INTERNAL LAYOUT TO EXISTING BUNGALOW, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22103

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  ROAD / JUNCTION ACCOMMODATION WORKS TO FACILITATE TURBINE DELIVERIES ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT IN CO. KILDARE. A CONCURRENT PLANNING APPLICATION IS BEING LODGED TO KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL IN RELATION TO A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF 5 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169M AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE; ERECTION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEOROLOGICAL MAST OF UP TO 100M IN HEIGHT; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ANCILLARY WORKS AND EQUIPMENT. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2138

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED. THEREAFTER PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DAIRY BUILDING, CUBICAL SHED AND SLATTED TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 19615

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 Raheenakeeran.

Recorded monuments

• OF027-003001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a slightly elevated position close to house and farm buildings. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF027-003002 Enclosure
  Description

  Directly N of castle site (OF027-003001-) is a cropmark of a possible enclosure as indicated on aerial photo (GSI N 505/4). No surface remains visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 29 December 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheenakeeran.

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 Raheenakeeran, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Raheenakeeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Raheenakeeran · Ráithín an Chaorthainn

Area

5,433,718 m² (543.37 ha, 1,342.7 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Raheenakeeran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

428 people lived in 159 households in the Raheenakeeran electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonsast Lower, Clonsast Upper, Clonshannon, Coolagary, Cushina, Enaghan, Garrymona

Placenames

Raheenakeeran 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.