Raheen Beg

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen Beg, from 160 m² to 332,843 m² (33.28 ha, 82.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Beg 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.

• 10 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a single storey extension and all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250146

• 27 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of 1) change of use from a health centre to use as a

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230737

• 26 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of conservatory attached to the rear of existing

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230441

• 7 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage an all associat

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201026

• 4 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO CA

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190270

• 13 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL FRAMED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO FRONT OF DW

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170302

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 Beg.

Recorded monuments

• WX017-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of a low N-S ridge on a gentle W-facing slope. This is a slightly raised and overgrown circular area (diam. 58m) defined by a fosse (Wth 4-6m; int. D 0.8-1m; ext. D 0.4-1m), with a counterscarp bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.5m) NW-E. There is no evidence of an inner bank and no identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 May, 2012 Amended: 6 October, 2020

Architectural heritage

• Raheenbeg House, farm house, 1842–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1900, on an F-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor with single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bay; four-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Part refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having rendered red brick stepped capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Rendered walls. Central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows with replacement uPVC casement windows throughout. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to rear (east) elevation with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows (ground floor) or two-over-two timber sash windows (first floor). Set in landscaped grounds.

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 Beg, 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 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 Raheen Beg.

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 Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Raheen Beg · An Ráithín Beag

Area

500,036 m² (50 ha, 123.56 acres)

Civil parish

Killenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Killenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

638 people lived in 221 households in the Killenagh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinadrummin, Brickpark, Curraghduff, Killenagh, Parknashoge, Raheen More, Raheenpark

Placenames

Raheen Beg 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.