Rahoonagh West
Rahoonagh West is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Rathúnach Thiar.
Parcel 2286963
- Area
- 4,766 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 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
- Rahoonagh West
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 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.
- 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.
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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
- 147.9 ha
- 366 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 31,189 m² (3.12 ha, 7.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahoonagh West, from 1,271 m² to 446,669 m² (44.67 ha, 110.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rahoonagh West 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
8 Aug 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for construction of a detached single-storey ancillary pool house incorporating an internal swimming pool and associated changing, plant and storage facilities, together with all associated site development works including revisions to the approved site layout where required, hard and soft landscaping, drainage, utility connections and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate and integrate the proposed development with the previously permitted dwelling house under Planning Register Reference No. 26/0267.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2103
6 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
The construction of a part two-storey, part single storey detached dwelling with integral carport, creation of a new site entrance with gates and pillars, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new well and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0267
1 Nov 2024Conditional permission
Permission for construction of new dwelling house, new entrance, wastewater treatment system, together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6062
19 Sept 2024Incompleted application
Permission for construction of new dwelling house, new entrance, wastewater treatment system, together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5778
6 Aug 2024Incompleted application
Permission for construction of new dwellinghouse, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5490
8 Oct 2013Conditional
Construction of a domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5924
16 Jul 2007Conditional
Completion of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9604
1 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 07/8353
23 Nov 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 06/12619
23 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Dwelling
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/11668
2 Jun 2004Conditional
Extension of slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3942
10 Mar 2004Withdrawn
Extension to slatted house
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1591
28 Feb 2003Conditional
Dwelling and treatment plant
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/872
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 Rahoonagh West.
Recorded monuments
- CO069-017 Clapper bridge
Description
Crossing River Douglas at angle. Bridge 19m in length, formed by eleven slabs (L c. 1.9m; Wth c. 0.55m; T 0.12m) supported on eight rough masonry piers (H 0.9m). Slabs at SE end have fallen into river. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rahoonagh West.
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 Rahoonagh West, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahoonagh West.
- 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 Rahoonagh West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rahoonagh West · An Rathúnach Thiar
- Area
- 1,479,391 m² (147.94 ha, 365.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Derryfineen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 242 people lived in 85 households in the Derryfineen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahercarney, Cloheena, Gortanacra, Gortanimill, Rahoonagh East, Toonlane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Rahoonagh West 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.