Rahyvira
Townland in the civil parish of Donohill, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ráth an Mheidhrigh
- Area
- 57.8 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,380 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahyvira, from 901 m² to 198,058 m² (19.81 ha, 48.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Rahyvira 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Nov 2024Conditional
(i) a garden machinery store, (ii) and an internal solid-fuel/domestic store, with external, covered solid-fuel storage porch, (iii) with all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460939
14 Jun 2019Conditional
change of house design to that previously granted under reference 17600484 and 18600782
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600658
20 Jun 2018Conditional
change of house design to that previously granted under Ref No 17600484
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600782
3 May 2017Conditional
a new dwelling (to replace existing dwelling to be demolished), garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600484
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rahyvira.
Architectural heritage
- Ironmills Creamery, creamery, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former creamery, built c. 1900, now derelict. Pitched slate roof vented by openings in upper gables, one with timber louvre. Rubble sandstone walls with roughly-dressed sandstone quoins. Flat-headed openings with red brick heads, having barred timber casement windows. Door missing. Loading doors to gables with flat timber lintel below segmental retaining arch. Segmental-headed door opening with red brick dressings to door head. Corrugated-iron structure with roof vent to north of site.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahyvira.
- 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 Rahyvira with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Rahyvira · Ráth an Mheidhrigh
- Area
- 577,568 m² (57.76 ha, 142.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Electoral division
- Donohill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donohill electoral division: 656 people in 242 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clashnacrony, Glassdrum, Glebe, Newtown North, Rossacrow, Shanaknock, Tinnahinchy
- Placenames
- Rahyvira 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.