Rathercan

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathercan, from 197 m² to 134,148 m² (13.41 ha, 33.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M2Village Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Fennagh Larger Serviced Village, Carlow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.2Utilities (Wastewater)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Fennagh Larger Serviced Village, Carlow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct 2 No. 13.5m long x 6.5m wide sludge drying reed beds and associated site works within the boundary of the existing Fenagh Wastewater Treatment Plant

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18309

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  to construct 2 No. 13.5m long x 6.5m wide sludge drying reed beds and associated site works within the boundary of the existing Fenagh waste water treatment plant

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18267

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathercan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathercan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rathercan.

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.

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

Name

Rathercan · Ráth Thorcáin

Area

507,841 m² (50.78 ha, 125.49 acres)

Civil parish

Fennagh, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Fennagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fennagh electoral division: 857 people in 275 households; 79% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydarton, Ballyknockan, Ballytimmin, Clonetoose, Fennagh, Rosslee

Placenames

Rathercan 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.