Raheen Beg

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen Beg, from 975 m² to 183,506 m² (18.35 ha, 45.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Raheen Beg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Raheen Beg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Raheen Beg.

Recorded monuments

• WM003-055 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland. There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. No surface remains visible of any earthworks visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheen Beg.

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raheen Beg.

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.

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

Name

Raheen Beg

Area

469,721 m² (46.97 ha, 116.07 acres)

Civil parish

Rathgarve, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Knockarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockarrow electoral division: 128 people in 49 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymanus, Bigwood, Littlewood, Raheen More

Placenames

Raheen Beg 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.