Ricketstown South

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ricketstown South, from 1,073 m² to 234,944 m² (23.49 ha, 58.06 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ricketstown South 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.

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  is sought for the construction of a one and a half storey extension to side of existing dwelling, attic conversion and to include minor internal and external alterations to accommodate same and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2451

• 31 Oct 2024N/a

  the construction of a one and a half storey extension to side of existing dwelling, attic conversion and to include minor internal and external alterations to accommodate same and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2447

• 3 May 2019Conditional

  the erection of a low two storey/storey and a half type dormer dwelling, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19174

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

• CW003-038 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 112m NW-SE; c. 70m NE-SW to road) defined by a wide cropmark of a fosse (Wth c. 5m) is visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The NE side is not visible, it appears to be truncated by a road running NW-SE See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW003-038----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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 Ricketstown South.

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

Name

Ricketstown South · Baile Riocaird Theas

Area

1,100,853 m² (110.09 ha, 272.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kineagh, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyoliver, Bough, Phillipstown, Raheenadaw, Rathdaniel, Ricketstown North, Ricketstown or Bettyfield

Placenames

Ricketstown South 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.