Raheennagun

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Raheennagun, from 186,221 m² (18.62 ha, 46.02 acres) to 186,221 m² (18.62 ha, 46.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a single / two-storey dwelling house along with all site and ancillary boundary works. All site and site infrastructure works for the provision of access road and site services as per granted planning permission Ref No – 24/60199

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460643

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house along with all site and ancillary boundary works. All site and site infrastructure works for the provision of the serviced site including access road and site services as per granted planning permission Ref No – 24/60199

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460579

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  to carry out site works on their lands at Lousybush / Raheennagun, Kilkenny to provide all site infrastructure for provision of 5 no. individual residential house sites, for the creation of a new access road with entrance off existing Bothar Na nGrainseach with all associated road site works, to connect to existing foul sewer, water mains and all underground services, for demolition of existing agricultural sheds on site and for all other associated site works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460199

• 1 Mar 2024N/a

  to carry out site works on their lands at Lousybush / Raheennagun, Kilkenny to provide all site infrastructure for provision of 5 no. individual residential house sites, for the creation of a new access road with entrance off existing Bothar Na nGrainseach with all associated road site works, to connect to existing foul sewer, water mains and all underground services, for demolition of existing agricultural sheds on site and for all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460104

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  to modify an existing approved housing development (Kilkenny County Council Planning Reference No. 10-10 and ABP Ref 10.238383 (as amended by Reg Ref No's 22-89, 21-788, 20-923) and extension of duration reg ref No. 2320 to include change of housetypes as set out below 1. House numbers 13 to 19, The Green: - from approved 1 No. original ‘A’ Type (5-bed) and 6 No. original ‘C’ types (5-Bed) to 7 No. detached house Type ‘B’ (5-Bed) houses 2. House number 20, The Green: - from 1 No. G1 type (5-bed) house to 1 No. ‘D’ type (5-Bed) house 3. House numbers 09 to 12, The Green: - from approved 4 No. ‘C’ type (5-Bed) houses to 4 No Type ‘B’ (5-Bed) houses 4. House numbers 6 and no. 8, The Green: - from approved 1 No. ‘F’ type (4-bed) house and 1 No. ‘C’ ’type (5-bed) house to 2 No. ‘D’ types (5-bed) houses 5. House no. 7 the Green: - the amended orientation of previously approved 1 No original ‘D’ type (5-bed) house 6. House numbers 01 to 05, The Green: - from approved 4 No. ‘A’ (5-bed) & 1 No ‘F’ types (4-bed) to 5 No. ‘D’ types (5-bed) houses 7. House number 19, The Square: - the amended orientation of previously approved 1 No. ‘D’ type (5-bed) house. 8. House numbers 20 to 22, The Square: - from approved 3 No. ‘C’ type (5-bed) to 3 No. ‘B’ Type (5-Bed) houses 9. House numbers 15 to 18, The Square: - from approved 3 No ‘C’ (5-bed) and 1 No ‘A’ type (5-bed) houses to 4 No ‘B’ type (5-bed) houses 10. House numbers 12 and 13, The Square: - from approved 2 No ‘C’ (5-bed) to 2 No ‘B’ type (5-bed) houses. 11. All of the above referred to approved and proposed houses are two-story in height and are detached. 12. House number 14, The Square: - from approved 1 No ‘C’ type house (5-bed) to a stand-alone 5-bed single-story managed sheltered housing unit. 13. Altering the layout of associated internal housing site roadways and boundaries 14. All associated site developments work. PLEASE NOTE: There is no increase in the house numbers proposed by this application, with the previously approved road layout also maintained

  Permission, 31 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 2460090

• 18 Oct 2023N/a

  The development will consist of:- to Modify existing approved housing development (Kilkenny County Council Planning Reference No. 10-10 and ABP Ref 10.238383 (as amended by Reg Ref No's 22-89, 21-788, 20-923) and extension of duration reg ref No. 2320 as follows: 1. Replacing 11 no. 2-storey 5-bed detached houses (1 type A, 1 type D and 9 types C) with 20 new 2-storey houses comprising; - i. 6 No 4-bed semi-detached houses – Type E ii. 1 No 4-bed detached house - Type E3 iii. 10 No 4-bed semi-detached houses – Type H iv. 1 No 2-bed terraced house – Type K2 v. 1 No 3-bed semi-detached house – Type K3 vi. 1 No 3-bed semi-detached house – Type K4 2. Altering the layout of associated internal housing site boundaries 3. All associated site developments work

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360462

• 15 May 2023Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Reference 10/15

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 23120

• 27 Jan 2023Unconditional

  of Planning Register Reference P10/10 and ABP Ref PL10.238383 (as amended by Reg Ref no's 20/923, 21788 and 22/89)

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2320

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 Raheennagun.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1945-6 revision as a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 42m) with a wide external fosse (Wth 7-10m). A townland boundary runs along the edge of the NE sector and a field boundary runs NE-SW along the NW edge of the monument. It is described by O'Kelly (1969, 24) as a 'partly-demolished rath'. The interior is covered in grass with some trees and scrub encroaching. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Raheennagun, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2167 (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 Raheennagun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Raheennagun · Ráithín na gCon

Area

186,220 m² (18.62 ha, 46.02 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Deerpark, Lousybush

Placenames

Raheennagun 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.