# Rathercan, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fennagh, barony of Idrone East, Co. Carlow; in Irish Ráth Thorcáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 507,841 m² (50.78 ha, 125.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,099 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 Village Core, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fennagh, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/fennagh.md - Barony: Idrone East - Electoral division: Fennagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 857 people lived in 275 households in the Fennagh electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3291 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10476 - Centre: latitude 52.709593, longitude -6.837851 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathercan, from 197 m² to 134,148 m² (13.41 ha, 33.15 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 786821: 134,148 m² (13.41 ha, 33.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/786821.md - Parcel 810537: 79,641 m² (7.96 ha, 19.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/810537.md - Parcel 813417: 70,389 m² (7.04 ha, 17.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/813417.md - Parcel 790565: 69,297 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790565.md - Parcel 810574: 42,525 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/810574.md - Parcel 5818890: 35,689 m² (3.57 ha, 8.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5818890.md - Parcel 810573: 22,120 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/810573.md - Parcel 2639553: 19,176 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639553.md - Parcel 790566: 13,088 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790566.md - Parcel 2115363: 5,099 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2115363.md - Parcel 2518479: 4,909 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2518479.md - Parcel 810538: 2,768 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/810538.md - Parcel 790567: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790567.md - Parcel 810539: 2,698 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/810539.md - Parcel 4650966: 1,990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650966.md - Parcel 2710528: 1,460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2710528.md - Parcel 790568: 621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/790568.md - Parcel 810572: 553 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/810572.md - Parcel 5818926: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5818926.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M2 Village 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: https://consult.carlow.ie/en/consultation/carlow-county-development-plan-2022-2028/chapter/chapter-16-development-management-standards - N2.2 Utilities (Wastewater): Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Fennagh Larger Serviced Village, Carlow; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.carlow.ie/en/consultation/carlow-county-development-plan-2022-2028/chapter/chapter-16-development-management-standards ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 3 Aug 2018, Carlow County Council 18309: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18309/0 - 6 Jul 2018, Carlow County Council 18267: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18267/0 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 Rathercan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathercan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathercan. ## 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 Rathercan, 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 low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/carlow/rathercan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rathercan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rathercan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathercan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydarton: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballydarton.md - Ballyknockan: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyknockan-10076.md - Ballytimmin: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballytimmin.md - Clonetoose: https://everytownland.com/carlow/clonetoose.md - Fennagh: https://everytownland.com/carlow/fennagh.md - Rosslee: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rosslee.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/carlow/rathercan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/rathercan