Raheen
Townland in the civil parish of Derrylossary, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 134.3 ha
- 332 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 4,525 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheen, from 348 m² to 359,312 m² (35.93 ha, 88.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
13 May 2026Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance and driveway which leads to existing entrance ( constructed under planning reference 24/60682 ) off the public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660411
27 Aug 2025N/a
construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance and laneway which leads to existing entrance ( constructed under planning reference 24/60682 ) off the public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560666
12 Aug 2025Conditional
proposed new dwelling with attached garage , new well, a proposed new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new entrance off existing access road and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560622
8 Apr 2025N/a
proposed new dwelling with attached garage , new well, a proposed new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new entrance off existing access road and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560258
7 Nov 2024Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460682
18 Sept 2024Conditional
1.retention sought for change of use from previously approved Gym/Games room to short term letting. 2.retention for structure as constructed listed in item no.1.
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460565
26 Mar 2024Conditional
new dwelling, a new garage, new well, a proposed new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new entrance off existing access road and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460170
24 Jan 2024N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, new entrance into agriculture field, demolition of existing shed and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460024
17 Jun 2020N/a
bungalow, effluent treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009, and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20559
3 Sept 2019Refused
importation of greenfield soil and stone for the improvement of land for agriculture and ecological improvement, requiring the importation of 9936 cubic metres of inert greenfield soil and stone over a period of up to 2 years. The development will include a temporary hardstand haul road and all ancillary site works. The development will be subject to a waste management certificate of registration from Wicklow County Council
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19976
18 Jul 2019N/a
importation of greenfield soil and stone for the improvement of land for agriculture, requiring the importation of 9936sqm cubic metres of inert greenfield soil and stone over a period of up to 2 years. The development will include a temporary hardstand haul road and all ancillary site works. The development will be subject to a waste management certificate of registration from Wicklow County Council
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19780
17 Dec 2018N/a
dormer dwelling, effluent treatment unit in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181413
16 Feb 2018N/a
dormer dwelling, effluent treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 standards and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18150
16 Jun 2017Conditional
dwelling with attached garage, well, a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines, new percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17719
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: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
Recorded monuments
- WI018-012 Bullaun stone
Description
A large earthfast granite boulder (2.6m WNW-ESE; 1.4m NNE-SSE, max. H 30cm) with an irregular surface that is slightly pitched along the long axis. Towards the E end of the stone are three basins. Basin 1 is oval shaped (diam. 23cm N-S x 33cm E-W; D 13cm) and positioned at the E end of the stone; basin 2 is circular (diam. 23cm; D 10cm) and positioned 20cm to the NW of basin 1; basin 3 is oval shaped (diam. 27cm x 24cm; D 8-12cm) and is positioned 5cm S of basin 2. Described by Price and Stephens (1948, 179-80) as c. 200m NW of Ballinacorbeg ('Derrylossary') church; located by Chris Corlett in 2005. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2012
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, 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 Raheen.
- 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
- 1,342,981 m² (134.3 ha, 331.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Derrylossary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Glendalough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glendalough electoral division: 311 people in 111 households; 87% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinacorbeg, Baltynanima, Drummin, Roundwood
- 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.