Raheen

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 1,642 m² to 359,125 m² (35.91 ha, 88.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  Full planning permission to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works at Raheen Abbeyleix Co Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660555

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  change house type as granted under 18/600 together with effluent treatment system & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2190

• 8 Oct 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank with raised filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18600

• 10 Aug 2018Conditional

  erect a dwelling house extension to existing public house. Extension is to include four bedroom dwelling, the relocation of existing toilets and alterations to public house and all associated site works ( which was previously granted on plg no. 07/2169)

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18498

• 9 Aug 2018N/a

  erect a dwelling house extension to existing public house. Extension is to include four bedroom dwelling, the relocation of existing toilets and alterations to public house and all associated site works ( which was previously granted on plg no. 07/2169)

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18490

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  retain existing smoking area and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 1860

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

• LA017-018 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a low-lying area. Marked on the 1841 and 1910 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The well is covered and its water is used for the local supply. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA017-019 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an almost square enclosure. On the 1906-7 revision, the S, W and N sides (max. dim. c. 50m N-S) are hachured. Vague outline of the bank and fosse visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Saint Fintan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Gothic Revival Catholic church, dated 1857. Renovated, c. 1880, with tower and projecting porches added. Renovated, c. 1980, with interior remodelled.

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 Raheen, 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 Raheen.

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. Laois.

Name

Raheen · An Ráithín

Area

820,735 m² (82.07 ha, 202.81 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Raheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

495 people lived in 148 households in the Raheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonawoolan, Clondouglas, Cloosecullen, Colt, Coole, Derrykearn, Doon

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.