Ratheeragh

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratheeragh, from 193 m² to 202,150 m² (20.21 ha, 49.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ratheeragh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ratheeragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW013-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Historic Monument No. HM00335, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 23 August 1977. Remains indicate large ringfort, with high bank (H from outside 8-10m) and broad external fosse. (Wth 5m). Interior appears to have been almost entirely dug out for gravel. Traces of possible external bank at NE. Quarried from S and overgrown with scrub.

• CW013-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Marked on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map (max. diam. c. 45m). Site defined by very degraded bank and barely discernible external fosse. Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.40) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a broad fosse. Now plough-levelled; recorded as positive cropmark in pasture in July 1989. (Barrett 1989).

• CW013-118 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.02) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ratheeragh.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ratheeragh, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2697 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ratheeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Ratheeragh · Ráth Fhiachrach

Area

844,326 m² (84.43 ha, 208.64 acres)

Civil parish

Ardoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Ballintemple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

599 people lived in 210 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynoe or Newtown, Knocknatubbrid, Mountwolseley or Crosslow, Ouragh, Rathglass

Placenames

Ratheeragh 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.