Raheenabrogue
Raheenabrogue is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyroan, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Ráithín na mBróg.
Parcel 228149
- Area
- 19,521 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Raheenabrogue
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 116.1 ha
- 287 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 14,034 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenabrogue, from 26 m² to 376,301 m² (37.63 ha, 92.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Raheenabrogue 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
7 Jul 2026N/a
construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with new site entrance and boundary treatments
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660449
19 Sept 2025Conditional
provide access entrance
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560600
16 Sept 2025N/a
provide access entrance
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560588
11 Sept 2025N/a
access entrance
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560576
2 Jul 2025Conditional
construct (i) slatted tank and all associated site works. Permission for retention of storage shed also required
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560397
22 Jun 2023Conditional
construct (i) collecting yard with slatted tank, flow channel and crush area (ii) Rain water storage tank and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360236
24 Oct 2019Conditional
construct cubicle shed with slatted tank and feeding areas and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19586
19 Dec 2018Conditional
construct a 2 storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18771
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 Raheenabrogue.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheenabrogue.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheenabrogue.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Raheenabrogue, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raheenabrogue.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Raheenabrogue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Raheenabrogue · Ráithín na mBróg
- Area
- 1,160,663 m² (116.07 ha, 286.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyroan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cullenagh
- Electoral division
- Ballyroan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,193 people lived in 379 households in the Ballyroan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlough, Ballyroan, Island, Mounteagle, Rathmoyle, Tonduff
- Placenames
- Raheenabrogue 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.