Raharney Little
Townland in the civil parish of Killucan, barony of Farbill, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 22.8 ha
- 56 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 1,386 m²
- Zoning
- M2
- Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raharney Little, from 84 m² to 202,771 m² (20.28 ha, 50.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M2Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Raharney, Westmeath · 19 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
7 Jul 2026N/a
development which will consist of retention permission for site excavation works, including the alteration of ground levels, the removal of soil and the importation of gravel, on land to the rear of the public house, and permission to reinstate/landscape the newly excavated ground as a rear garden/yard of the public house, and all ancillary site services
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660366
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: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raharney Little.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1780–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arched road bridge, built c.1800 and altered c.1860, comprising a single-arched bridge over the River Dell to the east with two-arches to the west spanning dried river bed/former mill race. Flanking rock-faced cut stone piers on square-plan with cut stone copping over to either side of arch to the east. Two arches to the west now infilled and in use as storage sheds. Constructed using rubble limestone with rubble stone parapet walls to the western part. Rock-faced voussoirs to arch to the east end with dressed limestone voussoirs to the arches on the west end. Located to the centre of Raharney village.
- Gates/railings/walls, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Field gate, erected c.1875, comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts supporting a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary wall runs way to the north. Located to the northeast of Raharney village, close to the main entrance to Grange More House (15313002).
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Raharney Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Raharney Little
- Area
- 227,767 m² (22.78 ha, 56.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killucan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farbill
- Electoral division
- Riverdale, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghanstown, Grange Beg, Grange More, Joristown Lower, Raharney
- Placenames
- Raharney Little on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.