Raheen

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 494 m² to 100,671 m² (10.07 ha, 24.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 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.

• 24 May 2024Conditional

  alteration of wall finish as granted under PL Ref:21/33, comprising of replacing natural stone finish with a rendered plaster finish, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460139

• 24 Mar 2024Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed and associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460069

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for construction of a single storey dwelling with domestic garage, new entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2143

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the reconstruction of the dwelling to it's original state as per the previously granted permission (Reg Ref: 071227) and provide a 2 bedroom residence, including the installation of a wastewater treatment system & polishing filter and the relocation of the existing vehicular entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2133

• 16 Apr 2019Conditional

  for alterations to existing dormer bungalow (changes to windows, doors, roof, external finishes and to the internal layout), a proposed 2 story extension to the side and rear (part single storey also), proposed changes to all elevations, a new septic tank and percolation area, carport, domestic garage, private tennis court with surrounding fencing, domestic polytunnel, new site entrance, boundary treatments and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19142

• 28 Mar 2019N/a

  for alterations to existing dormer bungalow (changes to windows, doors, roof, external finishes and to the internal layout), a proposed 2 storey extension to the side and rear (part single storey also), proposed changes to all elevations, a new septic tank and percolation area, carport, domestic garage, private tennis court with surrounding fencing, domestic polytunnel, new site entrance, boundary treatments and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19120

• 28 May 2018Conditional

  Full planning permission for the construction of a 2 storey detached dwelling, garage, new site entrance, private well, sewerage treatment and all other site and ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18216

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.

Recorded monuments

• CW011-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Oval area (c. 60m N-S, c. 45m E-W) on E facing slope. Enclosed by bank upslope and defined by scarp downslope (H c. 2m).

Architectural heritage

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

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, about 1 in 5 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.

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

Name

Raheen · An Ráithín

Area

1,339,104 m² (133.91 ha, 330.9 acres)

Civil parish

Oldleighlin, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Oldleighlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 199 households in the Oldleighlin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Feamore, Parknakyle, Raheenwood, Ridge

Placenames

Raheen 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.