Rakerin

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rakerin, from 16 m² to 120,915 m² (12.09 ha, 29.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Rakerin 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a five bay loose cattle shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26230

• 22 Sept 2020Conditional

  for extension to dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201350

• 24 Jul 2020N/a

  for extension to dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.1 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201016

• 20 May 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a front porch rear and first floor extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations. also for the construction of a domestic garage and the replacement of the existing septic tank with a new proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 180sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20611

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288 sqm (House), 33.6 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191409

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  permission for a dwelling house, garage and septic tank on revised site boundaries to previous planning No. 01/4855 and 07/438. Gross floor space of work to be retained 312.868sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 171335

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 Rakerin.

Recorded monuments

• GA123-080 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Known locally as ‘St Coleman’s Well’. On inspection this holy well was defined by a natural spring, roughly P-shaped in plan and enclosed by a drystone-built wall (2.2m N-S; 0.3-1.4m E-W; H 1.5m). The spring fed a domestic well immediately to the N. A slab across the N end of the spring well, c. 0.4m above the water level, formed a division between it and the domestic well. According to local information, St Colman stopped to pray, after burying the ‘King’, at a large flagstone in the field to the SW. The flagstone is said to bear the imprints of his knees. Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 May 2023

• GA123-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). According to local information this monument was bulldozed in the early 1960s when it survived as a ring of bushes and possibly a low bank. No visible surface trace survives but its outline is visible on aerial photography taken in 2011 (Google Earth 2019). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• GA123-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level reclaimed pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 47m NW-SE; c. 45m N-S) which was clipped by a NW-SE running road from N to SE. A ‘Cave’ (GA123-082001) is shown within the N sector of the interior. No visible surface survives. The site is now occupied by a school and playing field. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• GA123-082001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the N sector of the interior of a possible rath (GA123-082----). No visible surface trace of the souterrain survives. A school was built to the SW and the school yard now overlies the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• GA123-083 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved and grassed-over circular cashel (diam. 24m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from NE to E. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at NW may be original. The monument is heavily overgrown with brambles and bushes. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA123-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a hill in pastureland. This circular rath (diam. 31.2m), in fair condition, is defined by a bank that is overlain by a later tree-planted field boundary from NW through E to S. Apart from a slight rise at S and NW, the W half has been levelled. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_804 (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 Rakerin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rakerin · Ráth Chéirín

Area

1,361,914 m² (136.19 ha, 336.54 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

859 people lived in 290 households in the Kiltartan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballyconnell, Ballymurphy, Carragh, Cloon, Cloondine, Kilbeacanty, Lavally, Turra More

Placenames

Rakerin 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.