Rathwade

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathwade, from 1,038 m² to 252,730 m² (25.27 ha, 62.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Rathwade 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.

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 1927

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 Rathwade.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathwade.

Architectural heritage

• Rathwade House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Tudor Revival house, c. 1835, on an asymmetrical plan with bay windows, tower, gables, turret chimney stacks and service wing to rear. Designed by Daniel Robertson.

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 Rathwade, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathwade.

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 Rathwade with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Rathwade · Ráth Faod

Area

1,397,399 m² (139.74 ha, 345.3 acres)

Civil parish

Agha, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Agha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

419 people lived in 137 households in the Agha electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agha, Nurney, Oldtown, Rathedan, Rathellin

Placenames

Rathwade 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.