Rathbourn or Raheenmore

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbourn or Raheenmore, from 25 m² to 517,604 m² (51.76 ha, 127.9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathbourn or 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.

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  A ten-year planning permission for an energy storage facility comprising (i) energy storage modules installed on concrete plinth foundations; (ii) electrical inverters and transformers; (iii) underground electrical and communications cabling; (iv) the upgrade of an existing agricultural entrance from the R712; (v) on-site access track; (vi) security fencing and security gates; (vii) pole-mounted security cameras; (viii) an electrical control building; (ix) a compensatory flood storage area; and (x) all associated and ancillary site development, drainage, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360419

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  for a two storey private residence, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21194

• 1 Mar 2021N/a

  for a two storey private residence, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, borewell, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works on lands located

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21130

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  to remove an existing porch to the front and to construct a two storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling, comprising of kitchen/living on the ground floor and relocated bedrooms to the first floor and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18312

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 Rathbourn or Raheenmore.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-097 Enclosure
  Description

  An aerial photograph (GB89.AP.29) shows a cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by two concentric fosses. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of upload: 2 April 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathbourn or 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

At the centre of the townland of Rathbourn or Raheenmore, about 1 in 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2208 (ZIP).

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 Rathbourn or Raheenmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathbourn or Raheenmore · An Ráth Ard Mhór

Area

816,084 m² (81.61 ha, 201.66 acres)

Civil parish

St. Martins, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Clara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

756 people lived in 205 households in the Clara electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coneygar, Highrath, Kingsland, Lavistown, Scart, Templemartin

Placenames

Rathbourn or 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.