# Raheenakit, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghowle, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 833,167 m² (83.32 ha, 205.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,913 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghowle, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/aghowle.md - Barony: Shillelagh - Electoral division: Shillelagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 633 people lived in 233 households in the Shillelagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55915 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251148 - Centre: latitude 52.750962, longitude -6.577754 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenakit, from 22 m² to 595,880 m² (59.59 ha, 147.25 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1272179: 595,880 m² (59.59 ha, 147.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272179.md - Parcel 1277140: 223,281 m² (22.33 ha, 55.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277140.md - Parcel 5236013: 3,148 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5236013.md - Parcel 1256192: 2,865 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256192.md - Parcel 1265375: 2,341 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265375.md - Parcel 1289518: 1,484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289518.md - Parcel 1250738: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250738.md - Parcel 5042662: 914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5042662.md - Parcel 1256191: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256191.md - Parcel 1250737: 22 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250737.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Raheenakit in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 Dec 2022, Wicklow County Council 221344: Conditional. Permission. (1) permission for change of use (removal of Condition No. 2 of Planning Reference 00/3610) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons and (2) permission for retention for change of site boundaries and position of dwelling from that previously granted under Planning Reference 00/3610. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221344/0 - 10 Apr 2018, Wicklow County Council 18367: Conditional. Permission. slatted cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18367/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Raheenakit. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI042-040: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI042-040----. Situated on a gentle to marked SE-facing slope in rough upland grazing, now under forestry. D-shaped area (dims. 31m NE-SW; 28.5m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5-1.3m) with straight sides at SW and NW where the bank is incorporated into the adjacent field boundaries. Slight evidence for a fosse (Wth 1.8m) at the W and E. This may be masked by a sunken trackway at the SW. There are three gaps, at the N, NNW and SE; the SE gap (Wth 3m) opens out onto a narrow berm with the fosse beyond. There is no indication as to which is the original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheenakit. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Raheenakit, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raheenakit. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheenakit.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheenakit.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheenakit.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Raheenakit with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghowle Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/aghowle-upper-250009.md - Ballard: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-250040.md - Barnamuinga: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnamuinga.md - Crone: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/crone-250591.md - Minmore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/minmore.md - Mungacullin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mungacullin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheenakit - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/raheenakit