Raheen

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 311,207 m² (31.12 ha, 76.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of (i) a dung stead with effluent tank and (ii) a sand arena and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460385

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  vary development granted under pl ref 19600805. The proposed changes to the previously granted planning permission are a) to demolish south eastern section of existing house previously listed to be retained, b) to change position of proposed waste water treatment system and percolation area, c) to alter the proposed design of dwelling including position of extension d) to alter site boundary and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21129

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  development to (a) construct a utility room to the northwestern elevation of existing dwelling, (b) extend the southwestern elevation of dwelling to provide for reconfiguration of existing bedrooms, (c) construct an entrance hall to northeastern elevation of existing dwelling, (d) make other alterations, refurbish and upgrade existing dwelling (e) modify external paving and fencing as appropriate and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600805

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  convert existing attached garage and to construct a two storey extension to southwest facing side elevation of converted garage, minor alterations to existing elevations of garage to be converted and dwelling and upgrading of existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600742

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

• TS088-018002 Church
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. A simple undivided church aligned E-W, of 13th-century date, is built of roughly coursed limestone and sandstone rubble, with a base-batter (H 1.14m; Wth 0.4m). The whole building is densely obscured by ivy. The S wall is completely gone, but the E (H c. 8m; T 1.1m) and W gables are largely intact, as is the N wall (H 4m; T 0.82m). A buttress (H 1.65m; Wth 1.4m; D 2.5m) supports the E end of the N wall externally, where there is also a broken out window. A long central lancet window in the E gable is within a wide splayed embrasure. There are the remains of a broken-through doorway (H 2.35m; Wth 1.8m) at the W end of the N wall, the arch of which is intact. The W wall has an offset at a height of 3.4m above internal ground level and the gable rises above this. There are no other features visible, but according to the OS Letters there was a 'square window on the west gable placed at the height of about twenty feet [6m] from the ground and about four feet [1.2m] in height and a half feet [0.75m] in width' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 20 (52-3)). There is a gap (Wth 2.6m) in the W end of the N wall. A cross-slab (TS088-018003-) in the graveyard suggests there was an earlier church at this location. The earliest visible headstone dates from 1727, but most date from the 18th and 19th centuries, with some from the 20th century. A 13th-century medieval font described by Cahill and Twohig (1976, 91-3) was found at the church and has been removed to the nearby RC church (TS088-072----). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 November 2013

• TS088-018003 Cross-slab
  Description

  Within the graveyard (TS088-018005-), 6m S of the W gable of the medieval church (TS088-018002-). A sandstone cross-slab (H 0.66m; Wth 0.24m; T 0.075-0.095m) in an upright position, with a cross motif incised onto the E face. The motif consists of a cross potent, a cross with arms of equal length crossed at their ends by short right angled bars (Tipperary South Riding County Museum file 02.08.1984). In this case the arms extend beyond the cross pieces (ibid.). The upper and side arms extend to the edge of the slab while the bottom vertical extends below the crossing to form a spike like terminal (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS088-018004 Font
  Description

  The baptismal font from the ruined church at Ballybacon is now located at the present church at Ballybacon (TS088-072----) which is situated a few 100 yards to the NW of the old church in the townland of Garryduff. Exposure to the elements in the grounds of the ruined church was believed to be having a detrimental effect on the font and it was moved to its present location in 1975. The font is described in some detail by Cahil and Twohig (1976, 91-3). The font is rectangular both internally and externally with a flat bottom and a central drain. It is made of fine-grained granite, decorated externally on all four sides. Three sides are similar with three large leaf motifs in relief on each side of two triangles. The fourth side consists of two flower-like motifs in relief, composed of six petals and separated by two triangles set apex to apex. A large circular depression 0.32m in diameter and 0.01-0.02m deep has been cut into the underside of the font maybe suggesting that it was mounted. The exterior panels are 0.57m by 0.53m; interior panels 0.45m by 0.34m rim 0.05m wide, depth 0.21m. Cahil and Twohig discuss the dating of the font, suggesting that, though square or rectangular fonts were popular in the 11th and 12th centuries in England, work by Helen Roe would suggest a mid to late 13th-century date for the Ballybacon font (ibid. 92-3). The font is compared to a number of fonts fom Ossary which are assigned to a mid-13th-century date (ibid.). The square font is quite rare in Ireland, with three quarters of all known examples being English (ibid. 93). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 November 2013

• TS088-018005 Graveyard
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in gently undulating pastureland. A medieval church (TS088-018002-) is located N of centre in this rectangular graveyard (dims. 70m N-S; 41m E-W). There is a cross-slab (TS088-018003-) in the graveyard, S of the church. The earliest visible headstone dates from 1727, there are a lot of 18th and 19th century headstones and some of 20th century date. A font (TS088-018004-) found in the graveyard has been moved to Ballybacon RC church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 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. Tipperary.

Name

Raheen · An Ráithín

Area

608,222 m² (60.82 ha, 150.29 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybacon, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Ballybacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

500 people lived in 165 households in the Ballybacon electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garryduff, Killaidamee, Poulatar, Tullow

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.