Raheen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 23.3 ha
- 58 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 55 m² to 96,586 m² (9.66 ha, 23.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Raheen 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 Mar 2023Conditional
of 1) garden room and 2) garden storage building
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23295
10 May 2021Conditional
erect a first floor dormer extension with alterations and revisions to the elevations of the existing dwelling along with all associated site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21532
22 Sept 2020Conditional
alterations and additions to an existing single storey detached dwelling, comprising the construction of a new single storey utility room extension to the rear, the construction of a new single storey bedroom extension to the front elevation, and the conversion of an existing detached garage area into home office, together with the construction of a new single storey domestic garage to the side of the existing dwelling, including all ancillary site works. Retention permission is also being sought for the conversion of an existing detached single storey garage structure into ancillary games/garden room at the same address
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20930
29 Jan 2020Conditional
sunroom to the side of existing dwelling and PERMISSION to remove the entire pitched roof and demolish 111 sqm of the existing dwelling, erect a 272 sqm two storey extension to the first floor and sides of the retained 77 sqm structure with alterations and revisions to the elevations and internal layout along with an additional 32 sqm garage / store linking to the existing garage and all associated site development works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2075
28 Jul 2017Conditional
wooden hut for use as a private studio, a transportation container for storage of painting, and an 18m long timber roadside fence
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17923
26 May 2017Conditional
fully serviced dwelling house with detached domestic garage, sewage treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17604
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 Raheen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheen.
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 high, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3326 (ZIP).
- 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 Raheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Raheen
- Area
- 233,092 m² (23.31 ha, 57.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 928 people in 304 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinacor, Ballinaheese, Keeloge, Sheepwalk, Shelton, Shelton Abbey
- Placenames
- Raheen 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.