Raheenmore

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenmore, from 526 m² to 168,808 m² (16.88 ha, 41.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Raheenmore 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.

• 9 Aug 2023Conditional

  A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND CLOSING OF AN EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23355

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Raheenmore Bog SAC 000582
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Raheenmore Bog 000582

Recorded monuments

• OF010-023 Enclosure
  Description

  Enclosure or possible remains of ringfort (max. int. diam. NE-SW c. 43m) situated on W end of a large flat ridge and defined in part only from SW to NNE. Quarried at W and levelled from SE to SW. (ITA Survey 1942). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2116 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Raheenmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Raheenmore · An Ráithín Mór

Area

548,279 m² (54.83 ha, 135.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilclonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Kilclonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilclonfert electoral division: 448 people in 137 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonagh, Cloneen, Clyduff, Kilclonfert, Kilduff, Puttaghan

Placenames

Raheenmore 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.