Raheens
Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Na Ráithíní
- Area
- 12.1 ha
- 30 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 903 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheens, from 275 m² to 11,882 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Nov 2022Conditional
a single storey breakfast room to rear of dwelling, construction of a single storey kitchen to rear of dwelling, construction of a single storey sun room to front of dwelling, enclosure of the single storey area to front of dwelling to form a porch, changes to original planning permission reference number PLC 14/908 to include the extension of the single storey En-Suite to north corner of dwelling all as constructed & the development will consist of B) Permission for blocking-up the northern secondary entrance along the public road
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260634
28 Nov 2019Conditional
of a reduced size single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house with changes to the internal renovations to the existing dwelling house and changes to the rear and side elevations and to the rear and side external works, following on from Planning Permission No 18/600532. The extended house is intended for use as a Community Dwelling managed by the Daughters of Charity Disability Support Services
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601325
27 Apr 2018Conditional
a single storey extension to the existing dwelling house with internal and external renovations to the existing dwelling house, a new pedestrian gate in the front boundary wall and associated site works. The extended house is intended for use as a Community Dwelling managed by the Daughters of Charity Disability Support Service
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600532
25 Sept 2017Conditional
the erection of 3 no. temporary prefabricated classroom buildings, ancillary ramps and all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601052
4 Sept 2017N/a
erection of 3 no temporary prefabricated classroom buildings, ancillary ramps and all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600970
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheens.
Architectural heritage
- Cherryhill, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey Edwardian-style house, built c.1910, with canted end bays to front elevation, and ornamental cast-iron balcony supported on cast-iron Ionic columns to front and side elevations, set on concrete plinth. Lean-to extension to rear. Hipped fish-scale tile roof with ridge crestings and brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins and dentillated brick cornice. Replacement uPVC windows to canted bays and square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and render surrounds elsewhere. Entrance in elliptical-arch opening with fluted render pilasters and archivolt doorcase, timber panelled door, fanlight and sidelights. Two-storey outbuilding to north-west with pitched tile roof, rendered walls and square-headed and elliptical-arched openings having timber battened doors.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1722 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Raheens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Raheens · Na Ráithíní
- Area
- 121,062 m² (12.11 ha, 29.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Roscrea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roscrea electoral division: 6,606 people in 2,431 households; 60% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Loughanavatta, Sheehane, Townparks, Whitepark
- 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.