Rahale
Rahale is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynaslaney, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Ráth Héil.
Parcel 387995
- Area
- 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 589 m².
- 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
- Rahale
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.
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
- 68.6 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahale, from 52 m² to 195,323 m² (19.53 ha, 48.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Rahale 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
16 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260956
12 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of dwelling house with associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251651
14 Oct 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251296
19 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwellling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251187
5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of a single storey extension to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250955
31 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the following; to construct extensions to the front and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250944
7 Jul 2025Refused
Permission for the erection of dwelling house with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250839
13 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for A) proposed erection of a two storey front extension to an existi
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250722
3 Dec 2024Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241494
9 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing domestic shed to rear of existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241091
14 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the erection of a steel frame training gym
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240685
11 Jun 2024Refused
Permission for retention of an existing domestic shed to rear of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240668
12 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house with all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220946
12 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house with all associated sit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220945
10 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a car port and domestic shed to the rear garden
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201039
24 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for retention of a car port to the rear garden with associated site w
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200972
20 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED FLOOD LIGHTS TO WALKING TRACK AND ASSOCIATED SITE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200043
20 Dec 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED FLOOD LIGHTS TO WALKING TRACK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191707
15 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED SYNTHETIC TRAINING PITCH, FLOOD LIGHTS TO TRAINING PITCH
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191395
15 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190334
27 Nov 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND STORA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181622
13 Nov 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND STORA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181554
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 Rahale.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rahale.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Part chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof with exposed wire stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping, and part exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening in camber- or segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six (west) or two-over-two (east) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having roll moulded gabled capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.
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 Rahale, 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 Rahale.
- 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
- Rahale, Oylegate6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Rahale · Ráth Héil
- Area
- 686,402 m² (68.64 ha, 169.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynaslaney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Edermine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyrooaun, Coolakip, Coolamain, Knockduff, Knockduff, Mill Lands, Monavoddagh
- Placenames
- Rahale 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.