Raheenglass
Raheenglass is a townland in the civil parish of Crosspatrick, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 73.9 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,659 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheenglass, from 54 m² to 388,531 m² (38.85 ha, 96.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Raheenglass 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
14 Aug 2024Conditional
the construction of 7 no. detached dwellings , the provision of a new access road to link off an existing estate road, as well as a new vehicular entrance off the public road to service 1 no dwelling, connections to all services, proposed new boundary treatments and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460497
6 Aug 2024N/a
the construction of 7 no. detached dwellings , the provision of a new access road to link off an existing estate road, as well as a new vehicular entrance off the public road to service 1 no dwelling, connections to all services, proposed new boundary treatments and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460481
24 Jul 2024Conditional
construction of a dwelling with an on-site effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460445
16 Jul 2024N/a
the construction of a dwelling with an on-site effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460417
23 May 2017Conditional
5 no detached dwellings with connection to existing services, provision of new access roadway onto existing estate roadway and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17592
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 Raheenglass.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheenglass.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raheenglass.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Raheenglass, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Raheenglass.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Raheenglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Raheenglass
- Area
- 739,274 m² (73.93 ha, 182.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosspatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Coolboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 613 people lived in 210 households in the Coolboy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolafancy, Coolboy, Coolroe, Hillbrook Lower
- Placenames
- Raheenglass 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.