Raharney

129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raharney, from 39 m² to 175,169 m² (17.52 ha, 43.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• M2Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Raharney, Westmeath · 63 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  Construction of private dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560170

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  Change of use and conversion of an existing two-storey dwelling into parish space. The construction works will comprise the demolition of existing single-storey extensions to the side and rear of the existing house; construction of a new single storey extension to the rear of the existing house; alterations and refurbishment of the existing house; installation of a new septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works in Churchside, Raharney. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure - St, Brigid's Chapel, Ref. No. 020-028.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206129

• 11 Feb 2020N/a

  change of use and conversion of an existing two-storey dwelling into parish space. The construction works will comprise the demolition of existing single-storey extensions to the side and rear of the existing house, construction of a new single-storey extension to the rear of the existing house, alterations and refurbishment of the existing house, installation of a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206021

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  garage/shed as constructed on site.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 176176

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• WM020-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  National Monument No. 572. Described in 1970 as a ‘circular slightly uneven enclosure, sloping slightly from N-S bounded by a scarp with slight remains of an earthen bank on its upper edge and with remains of a fosse at its foot. The bank is best preserved from NE-E. Elsewhere it rises barely above the interior. The bank is denuded to the level of the interior from SW-S-SE and U-shaped fosse is not visible there. There is a modern bank outside the scarp on the SE. The shallow fosse is well defined from SW-W-N. From N-E-SE it is very slight. There are some modern depressions inside the bank on the N. A slight gap (Wth 5m-1.4m) on the SE may represent the entrance. No visible trace of a causeway. Situated on the S gentle slope of a natural rise of good pasture. The site is largely overgrown with blackthorn and scrub’ (SMR File 14/04/1970). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 January 2016

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic chapel on T-shaped plan, built c.1834 and renovated c.1860, comprising a nave to the north and single-bay transepts to the east and west. Single-bay gable-fronted entrance porches to the centre of the nave gable and to the north-facing elevations of transepts. Pitched natural slate roof with raised cut stone verges to the gable ends, a decorative eaves cornice and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone Celtic cross finial to apex of roof above entrance gable. Smooth rendered walls over projecting plinth. Pointed-arched window openings to nave and triple graded lancet windows to the chancel gable having pictorial stained glass windows, c.1860. Pointed-arched window opening to nave gable having stained glass and a moulded stucco hoodmoulding over with decorative bosses/labels. Tudor-arched doorcase to main entrance porch (nave) having timber double doors with a stained glass overlight and with a moulded stucco hoodmoulding over with decorative labels. Pointed-arched doorcases to transept porches. Interesting interior with cross-braced timber roof and a collection of memorial monuments. Set back from road in own grounds to the west side of Raharney with a freestanding cast-iron belfry to the southwest and a collection of cut stone gravestones. Rubble limestone boundary wall with cut stone coping and wrought-iron railings over to street-frontage (north). Pair of chamfered cut ashlar limestone gate posts (on octagonal-plan with moulded capstones over) supporting wrought-iron double gates gives access to church grounds from the north.

• House, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1790, having a single-bay flat-roofed porch to the centre of the main façade (south), c.1900. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and with a rendered chimneystack and a raised verge to either gable end (east and west). Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over stepped smooth rendered plinth with raised rendered block quoins to the corners and a smooth rendered plat band at eaves level. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in size to the eaves, with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorcase to the front face of porch (south) having a glazed timber door. Road-fronted to the north end of Raharney. Rendered boundary wall to the west side having a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers supporting a wrought-iron gate.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached corner-sited three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having a two-bay two-storey extension to the south end. Gable wall to the north end is skewed (not at a right angle to the front wall). Pitched natural slate roof with raised verges and rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (north and south). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Central round-headed doorway with cut limestone block-and-start surround having a cast-iron spoke/radial fanlight over. Replacement timber panelled door. Road-fronted to the west end of Raharney having a rubble stone outbuilding with pitched corrugated metal roof over to the south end of extension.

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).

No address of the register names Raharney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Raharney · Ráth Fhearna

Area

986,371 m² (98.64 ha, 243.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Raharney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Brutonstown Little, Cloghanstown, Joristown Lower, Joristown Upper, Raharney Little, Wadestown, Wardenstown

Placenames

Raharney 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.