Raheenduff

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenduff, from 94 m² to 186,425 m² (18.64 ha, 46.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Raheenduff 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.

• 29 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a new graveyard and carpark with all associated site works located to the rear of the west boundary of the church of the Assumption, The Rower

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560159

• 13 Jul 2024Conditional

  for a single storey dwelling, garage and waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460336

• 22 May 2024N/a

  for a new graveyard and carpark with all associated site works located to the rear of the west boundary of the church of the Assumption The Rower

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460229

• 23 Nov 2023Refused

  for a residential development of 10 number dwellings and a co working building comprising the following: Demolition of existing sheds, derelict structure and building known as Butlers pub, to form new vehicular sight lines on to the R705, 1 number 1 bed type A single storey 52.1 sqm, 1 number 1 bed type B single storey 55.1 sqm, 3 number 3 bed type C two storey 107.9 sqm, 1 number 2 bed type D single storey 72.8 sqm, 4 number 3 bed type E two storey 109.3 sqm and co-work space single storey building 92.1 sqm, sewage treatment system and associated civil and landscaping works including alterations to existing vehicular entrance off R705, all on a 0.41 hectare site

  Permission, 10 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 23252

• 19 Aug 2022Conditional

  for (A) The construction of a granny flat extension to the side of an existing dwelling (B) The construction of a living room extension to the rear of an existing dwelling and (C) Demolition of an existing garage and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22539

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of alterations and single-storey extension to existing school to include 1 no. classroom and ancillary related works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2029

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 Raheenduff.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheenduff.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height Catholic Church, built 1816, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay (two-bay deep) double-height transepts to north-west and to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north-west, and single-bay double-height chancel to north-east continuing into two-bay double-height sacristy to north-east. Renovated, 1916, with single-bay four-stage entrance tower added to south-west on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (gabled to porch) with profiled clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Painted rendered walls over random rubble granite construction with rendered quoins to corners, cut-limestone date stone/plaque to tower, rendered stringcourse to third stage to tower, and rendered advanced parapet having rendered coping with corner 'pinnacles'. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-stone chamfered sills, rendered surrounds, timber Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings to second and to third stage to tower (one blind to third stage) with cut-stone chamfered sills (forming part of sill course to third stage), rendered surrounds, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement to second stage having leaded stained glass panels, and louvered panel fittings to third stage. Square-headed openings to top (bell) stage to tower with chamfered reveals, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door openings with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds, and diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors having overlights. Square-headed door opening to sacristy (forming part over overall pointed-arch opening) with rendered block-and-start surround, and diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted rendered boundary wall to perimeter of site having unpainted rendered piers, and iron double gates having Fleur-de-Lys finials.

• Butler, house, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey double-pile house, post-1925, on a corner site incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, and shopfront to right ground floor. Now disused to right ground floor. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves (overhanging to gables). Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered walls with channelling to porch supporting moulded course, frieze, moulded cornice having blocking course, panel to first floor side (north-east) elevation having rendered surround, and rendered 'timber frame' detailing to gables to side (north-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, timber casement windows having decorative glazing patterns to casement sections, and six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (north-west) elevation. Oculus window openings to porch in round recesses and to first floor over porch having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane timber windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having overlight. Rendered shopfront to right ground floor on a symmetrical plan with channelled piers, fixed-pane (three-light) timber display windows, timber double doors having overlight, fascia having raised lettering, and moulded cornice. Road fronted on a corner site with sections of wrought iron railings to front having cast-iron finials, and concrete footpath to front of shopfront.

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 Raheenduff, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2470 (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 Raheenduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Raheenduff · An Ráithín Dubh

Area

1,115,665 m² (111.57 ha, 275.69 acres)

Civil parish

The Rower, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

The Rower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

865 people lived in 290 households in the The Rower electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycommon, Ballynunry, Bishopsknock, Carranroe Upper, Farrantemple, Garranvabby, Kiltown, Knockatore

Placenames

Raheenduff 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.