Raheen

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 190 m² to 152,789 m² (15.28 ha, 37.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Raheen 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.

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  the development that consists of: Front Entrance Layout and Gates, Including All Ancillary Works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360217

• 20 Sept 2019Conditional

  domestic hobby/storage shed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19940

• 21 Jun 2019Conditional

  revisions/extensions to layout granted under planning ref. 00/2847 namely: (1) garden store/boiler store on ground floor, (2) conversion of garage to study on ground floor, (3) 4 no. bay windows to side and rear of dwelling at ground and first floor levels, (4) balcony at first floor level and (5) porch to front

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19603

• 23 Jan 2017Conditional

  construction of two storey extension to the existing boiler house and store comprising of summer room, study and store

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1748

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 Raheen.

Recorded monuments

• LI006-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On gently undulating pasture, on the private grounds of Raheen House. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork standing on the demesne grounds of Raheen House 60m to SSW on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Described in 1997 by Celie O'Rahilly as a circular-shaped shaped area (approx. int. diam. 27m) enclosed by a bank (SMR File) 50m W of the gate lodge into Raheen House. Outline of tree-ringed monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Raheen House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having three-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta ridge crestings. Roughcast rendered walls having render quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to ground floor having limestone sills and bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to rear having timber battened door. Pair of square-profile rubble limestone piers to north-east with double-leaf timber gates.

• Raheen House, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1810, having gablet to front (north) elevation. Half-hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards. Roof lights to rear (south) elevation. Roughly dressed limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Camber-headed openings having tooled limestone sills, cut limestone voussoirs and timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to gablet with timber casement window. Square-headed opening having cut limestone voussoirs and timber battened door. Limestone step to entrance. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south. Hipped slate roof. Snecked limestone walls having tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed opening with timber battened door.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1054 (ZIP).

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 Raheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Raheen · An Ráithín

Area

464,632 m² (46.46 ha, 114.81 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagowan, Biddyford, Clyduff West, Mountshannon, Rivers, Thornfield

Placenames

Raheen 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.