Rahaly

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahaly, from 50 m² to 255,640 m² (25.56 ha, 63.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Rahaly 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  of a dwelling house and garage/garden sheds on a site with revised site boundaries, provision of an effluent treatment system including percolation area to replace the existing septic tank system, and for all ancillary services and site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660842

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling house and single storey garage, installation of an approved effluent treatment system, new site vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660744

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 154.30 sqm(house) & 39.20 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461661

• 15 Apr 2022Conditional

  sought for alteration to new extension previously granted under reference number 18/768.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260360

• 4 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.9 sqm total area, 185.9 sqm (house) & 61 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 222

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a 2 storey porch to the front of an existing dwelling and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 4 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181863

• 6 Jun 2018Conditional

  for single storey rear extension and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 66.8sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18768

• 1 Jun 2017Unconditional

  for domestic dwelling, septic tank and percolation area with all associated site works (gross floor space 354sqm).Previous Planning Ref. 11/1730

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 17774

• 1 Feb 2017Conditional

  for 1) An extension to the front and rear of the existing dwellinghouse, 2) For the construction of a new window ope on the side elevation, and 3) For the construction of an upgraded wastewater treatment system, and for the existing wastewater treatment to be decommissioned. Permission for retention is being sought for: 1) The existing domestic garage/store, 2) Changes to internal layout of the existing dwelling house, 3) Changes to window styles and door styles on all elevations, and 4) The relocation of the chimney stack previously granted under Pl. Ref. No. 03/6582. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 11.0 sqm Ext 1, 3.9 sqm., Ext 2, retention 25.5m2)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1791

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Peterswell Turlough SAC 000318
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough 000318

Recorded monuments

• GA114-143 Souterrain
  Description

  In a raised area S of Fahy’s Lough. This rectangular drystone-built souterrain (L 6m; Wth 1.4m; H 1.2m) runs ENE-WSW. Disturbance around its WSW end suggested that it may originally have been L-shaped in plan and continued further to the S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2019

• GA114-144 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In gently undulating farmland, c. 4km to the SE of Ardrahan. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of ‘Richard Burke’ (Nolan 1901, 114). This restored and refurbished tower house consists of a narrow, rectangular, late-medieval, five-storey high tower (L 5.1m; Wth 10m) with an almost contemporaneous rectangular, two-storey extension on its W side. Restoration began c. 1970 when the entire building was re-floored and re-roofed; a number of large modern windows were also inserted at this time. The original doorway, in the E wall, has a horizontal musket slot above it and a murder hole directly inside it. The spiral stairs, in the SE corner, leads to the upper floors, each of which consists of a small rectangular chamber opening off the stairs: that on 4th floor had a stone vault over it. The exit from the garderobe chute is visible at a height of c. 2m above the base of the S wall. Machicolations are evident at parapet level on the E and S walls. The extension (L 10m; Wth 9.9m) has a fine stone vault between the ground and first floors. A concealed chamber in the spandrel of the vault is entered from the E jamb of a window embrasure in the S wall on the 1st floor. This leads to a fine spiral stairs which descends to the long, narrow chamber that runs along the length of the S wall. All the surviving windows are single-light, flat and round-headed slits. Those at 1st-floor level, on the chamfered external corners of the tower and extension, bear finely carved decoration. Parts of the W and N walls of the bawn (GA114-144001-) survive, along with a circular turret its NE angle. An arched gateway (GA114-144002-), c. 40m to the SE of the tower, dates to the 18th century. (Fahey 1893, 248; 1906, 7) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 September 2017

• GA114-144001 Bawn
  Description

  Most of the N wall and part of the W wall of this bawn, associated with the tower house (GA114-144----), survive to a height of c. 2m. Some of the outer wall-face of the N wall has been robbed out. A restored angle tower (int. diam. c. 5m), with a considerable base-batter, at NE appears to be a later feature as it is not bonded into the slight remains of the E bawn wall but rather abuts it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 September 2017

• GA114-144002 Gateway
  Description

  Circa 40m to the SE of the tower house (GA114-144----) are the remains of an arched gateway built of rough stone blocks and mortar. Walls extend off either side of it, to the NE and SW. The arch is circular in shape (Wth 1.9m; H 3m) and the keystone on its external wall-face bears the following letters and date: D NE 1738. A hanging eye is visible on either side of the arch on the internal wall-face. The gateway appears to have been part of a building or courtyard. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 September 2017

• GA114-145 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a very small circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m). On the 1921 edition it was cut by a NE-SW running field boundary and no trace of it was depicted to the NW of the boundary. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 June 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rahaly, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_836 (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 Rahaly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rahaly · Ráth Alla

Area

1,655,842 m² (165.58 ha, 409.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 185 households in the Skehanagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cockstown East, Cockstown West, Kinmona North, Kinmona South, Limepark North, Limepark South, Loughaunawadda, Skehanagh, Turloughnacloghdoo Commons

Placenames

Rahaly 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.