Raheens

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheens, from 105 m² to 324,195 m² (32.42 ha, 80.11 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 Raheens 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 Feb 2026N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling, along with any associated site development works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660112

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  RETENTION FOR AS CONSTRUCTED DOMESTIC HOUSE, AS CONSTRUCTED GARAGE, AS CONSTRUCTED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18483

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 Raheens.

Recorded monuments

• MA078-009 Monumental structure
  Description

  In pasture, located in what was formerly the estate of Raheens House, the principal seat of the Browne family. Tall, obelisk-type monument, built of mortared stone, erected in the early 19th-century by Dodwell Browne, Esq., in memory of his wife. Roughly centrally placed on the WSW face is a stone plaque featuring a carving of a woman’s head in profile above which is the inscription 'Maria O Donel Browne'. Below this is another plaque with the inscription "A Maria et a l'amour par son cher epoux Dodwell 1809". At the foot of the monument is an inscription in old Irish script below which is written 'This Cenotaph was built in memorial of Maria Browne O Donel 2d. Daughter of Sir Neal O Donel'. On the ESE face there is plaque with the inscription 'To Gaiety And Innocence'. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2015

Architectural heritage

• Raheens House, country house, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built 1847-8, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; two-bay (east) or three-bay (west) full-height side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1932. "Closed", 1933. Sold, 1941. Vacant, 1945. In ruins, 1976. Hipped roof now missing with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone stepped cornice. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed hammered limestone walls on lichen-covered drag edged cut-limestone cushion course on coursed hammered limestone base with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of three moss-covered cut-limestone steps with cut-limestone monolithic surround supporting lichen-covered "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and red brick block-and-start surround supporting tooled cut-limestone voussoirs with two-over-two timber sash window now missing. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds supporting tooled cut-limestone voussoirs with one-over-one (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows now missing. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds with six-over-six timber sash windows now missing. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): central hall on a square plan with remains of run moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (east) with no fittings surviving; dining room (west) with elliptical-headed buffet niche. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Raheens House, farmyard complex, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, dated 1784, including: Detached eleven-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a symmetrical plan. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roof now missing, lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping to gables with drag edged dragged limestone ashlar bellcote (south) or drag edged dragged limestone ashlar chimney stack (north) to apexes, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls originally rendered with drag edged tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central carriageway with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on date stone-inscribed drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystone ("1784"). Square-headed flanking door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Raheens House.

• Raheens House, walled garden, 1840–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1895, on a square plan with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Raheens House.

• Raheens House, monument, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding monument, dated 1809, on a square plan. Set in grounds shared with Raheens House.

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 Raheens, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_313 (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 Raheens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Raheens · Na Ráithíní

Area

1,269,323 m² (126.93 ha, 313.66 acres)

Civil parish

Islandeady, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Castlebar Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,935 people lived in 2,987 households in the Castlebar Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Cornanool, Derrycoosh, Drumadoon, Drumshinnagh, Struaun

Placenames

Raheens 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.