Ricketstown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ricketstown, from 864 m² to 197,422 m² (19.74 ha, 48.78 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 Ricketstown 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.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  a new agricultural entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660238

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  games room/home gym and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560087

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  for new agricultural buildings to include a new indoor horse riding arena, riding school stables, private breeding yard stables and walker, toilet facilities with waste water treatment unit and percolation area, private well, widening of existing site entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2043

• 3 Feb 2020N/a

  for new agricultural buildings to include a new Indoor horse riding arena, riding school stables, private breeding yard stables, toilet facilities with waste water treatment unit and percolation area, private well, new site entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2027

• 10 Oct 2019Refused

  for the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil into the subject site of 13.01 hectares at Maplestown, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow, in order that the site can be restored in compliance with condition 17 of the grant of permission reference number 221741 from An Bord Pleanala. It is proposed to remediate approximately 8.44 ha of the site and it is estimated that this will require approximately 122,218 cubic metres of greenfield, inert soil and stone. This will be carried out over an eight year period with no more than 24,900 tonnes of soil being imported in any one year. The application includes the installation of a weigh bridge, a temporary site office and canteen, wheel wash, portaloo and carry out all ancillary site works. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19403

• 26 Sept 2019N/a

  the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil into the subject site of 13.01 hectares, in order that the site can be restored in compliance with conditon 17 of the grant of permission reference number 221741 from An Bord Pleanala. It is proposed to remediate approximately 8.44ha of the site and it is estimated that this will require approximately 122.218 cubic metres of greenfield, inert soil and stone. This will be carried out over an eight-year period with no more than 24,900 tonnes of soil being imported in any one year. This application includes the installation of a weighbridge, a temporary site office and canteen, wheelwash, portaloo and carry out all ancillary site works. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from Carlow County Council.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19384

• 13 Aug 2019N/a

  Ext of Duration on PL 06/842, An Bord Pleanála PL 01.221741- to extract and process sand and gravel at Maplestown Co. Carlow

  Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 19312

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  (a) Retention of existing sunroom (22m2) to south elevation of existing two storey dwelling, (b) retention of existing detached one and half storey style dwelling (131.5m2) and all ancillary site works, and Planning Permission for (c) proposed new entrance, upgrade works to existing treatment system, all associated landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19219

• 10 May 2019N/a

  (a) Retention of existing sunroom (22m2) to south elevation of existing two storey dwelling (b) Retention of existing detached one and a half storey style dwelling (131.5m2) and all ancillary site works, and Planning Permission for (c) Proposed new entrance, upgrade works to existing treatment system, all associated landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 19182

• 19 Oct 2018N/a

  retention permission for sunroom extension to the front of existing two bedroom dwelling at Ricketstown, Rathvilly, Carlow. Retention permission also sought for two storey granny flat and single storey stables.

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 18402

• 15 Oct 2018N/a

  Retention permission for the sunroom extension to the front of my existing two storey dwelling at Ricketstown, Rathvilly, Carlow. Retention permission also sought for two storey granny flat and single storey stables.

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 18388

• 29 Aug 2018N/a

  retention permission for sunroom extension to front of existing two storey dwelling and two storey granny flat and single storey stables

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 18346

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 Ricketstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ricketstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ricketstown, 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 Ricketstown.

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

Name

Ricketstown · Baile Riocaird

Area

827,724 m² (82.77 ha, 204.54 acres)

Civil parish

Rahill, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

792 people lived in 272 households in the Rahill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyraggan (Co. Kildare), Broadstown (Co. Kildare), Garrettstown, Maplestown, Ricketstown North

Placenames

Ricketstown 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.