Raheevarren
Townland in the civil parish of Newbawn, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Ráth Uí Bhearáin
- Area
- 199.6 ha
- 493 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 5,592 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheevarren, from 361 m² to 339,786 m² (33.98 ha, 83.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Raheevarren 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
24 Jun 2026N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260821
18 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260622
8 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251278
10 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension and alterations to an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250698
15 Oct 2024N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and associated site
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241275
16 Feb 2024Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240166
5 Sept 2023Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231058
18 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230540
15 Dec 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221666
21 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the side and rear of an existing
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221001
30 Apr 2021N/a
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced single storey residential dw
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210660
16 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201352
16 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201353
25 Nov 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191563
25 Nov 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191562
29 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 2 EXTENSIONS, INCLUDING UNDERGROUND SLATTED T
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170828
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 Raheevarren.
Recorded monuments
- WX035-023 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope that is at the bottom of the steep SE-facing slope of Carrickbyrne Hill. It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop but much of the monument would be under the ENE-WSW N25 Wexford to New Ross road. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 16 October, 2012
- WX035-025 Standing stone
Description
Situated on a little N-S spur at the S foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill. A stone which is probably a shale is oriented NE SW and has a rectangular cross section at the base and a blunted pointed top (dims. 1.1-1.3m x 0.4 0.5m; H 3.2m). It is described as 'Clochnabran' (Bran - raven?) on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 27 June, 2013
- WX035-026 Well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Tobergal – the Bright Well – in both, in Italic lettering on the earlier map and gothic lettering on the later. It is located in a little N-S valley at the S foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill with a small stream c. 5m to the E. The area was densely overgrown but it was described locally as a natural spring. There is no evidence that it was ever venerated or of any great antiquity. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheevarren.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Raheevarren.
- 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 Raheevarren with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Raheevarren · Ráth Uí Bhearáin
- Area
- 1,996,022 m² (199.6 ha, 493.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Newbawn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Carrickbyrne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrickbyrne electoral division: 618 people in 207 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagrallagh, Brownstown, Carrigadaggan, Courthoyle Old, Newbawn, Scullaboge
- Placenames
- Raheevarren 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.