Rathduff
Rathduff is a townland in the civil parish of Dunleckny, barony of Idrone East, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Ráth Dhubh.
- Area
- 139.1 ha
- 344 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,762 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathduff, from 225 m² to 170,763 m² (17.08 ha, 42.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Rathduff 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
9 Sept 2026N/a
previously approved planning permission Ref: 24/60027 to (1) Increase roof height and construct a hip into existing front elevation roof of the newly constructed rear extension (2) Added 2 additional windows at first floor level and a door at ground floor level. (3) Minor layout alterations to first floor level
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2660275
2 Dec 2024Conditional
extensions to existing dwelling house (reg ref cw9405) as constructed comprising retention of 2no. single storey extensions which are located to the west and east of the existing dwelling, consisting of a bedroom and sitting room space, together with full planning permission for the construction of a further single storey extension to the north of the existing bungalow with internal alterations and associated external works including all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2460384
1 Aug 2024Conditional
the construction of a splayed agricultural entrance with all associated site development works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460226
8 Feb 2024Conditional
the development will consist of: (1) Partial demolition of existing single story extension to rear. (2) Construction of a story and a half extension to rear elevation north and gable elevation east and west some 110 Sqm. (3) All associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460027
11 Oct 2023Conditional
external alterations to existing dwelling (previously granted under PL22/303, currently under construction). The alterations include changes from a curved roof to the side to a pitched roof and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 23171
15 Sept 2022Conditional
to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling, internal alterations and modifications to external openings, alterations of existing entrance connection to onsite services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22303
6 Jul 2021Conditional
Construction of a first floor extension to existing dwelling, new entrance, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21255
10 Dec 2019Conditional
for revisions to a bungalow style dwelling previously permitted planning permission on foot of planning reference PL Ref: 16/15. The revisions include the addition of a dormer window to the front elevation, gable windows at first floor level and all associated developments works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19480
22 Aug 2017Conditional
for a revised dwelling extension design previously granted under PL. Ref: 14/211 and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 17248
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 Rathduff.
Recorded monuments
- CW016-127 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB90.AV.24, 30 May 1990) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Another enclosure (CW016-128----) is located c. 20m to the E. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 30 March 2010
- CW016-128 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB90.AV.24, 30 May 1990) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Another enclosure (CW016-127----) is located c. 20m to the W. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 30 March 2010
- CW016-148 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 53m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached image: CW016-148----_01Google Earth Pro imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathduff.
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 Rathduff, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathduff.
- 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 Rathduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Rathduff · An Ráth Dhubh
- Area
- 1,390,535 m² (139.05 ha, 343.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunleckny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Electoral division
- Muinebeag Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 719 people lived in 238 households in the Muinebeag Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Rathduff 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.