Rath
Townland in the civil parish of Rath, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish An Ráth
- Area
- 89.7 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 33,940 m² (3.39 ha, 8.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 594 m² to 264,305 m² (26.43 ha, 65.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rath 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Rath in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rath.
Recorded monuments
- CL025-008002 Castle - tower house
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 9 December 2014
- CL025-084001 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL025-084002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL025-084003 Round tower
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL025-084004 Sheela-na-gig
Description
This carving is on a highly decorated window sill, now placed upside down over a window recess in the S wall of the nave of Rath church (CL025-084001-). The sill is decorated with foliage emanating from the mouth of an animal at the centre. The sheela-na-gig is in the same plastic style, dated to c. 1200 (Harbison 2000, 27), and is in a separate panel beside the interlace. The figure is small (H c. 0.2m), and the waist area is damaged, but the breasts are visible. The hands are entwined with stylized animals, and the legs are flexed. (Guest 1936, 112, No. 20; Andersen 1977, 151, No. 103). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June, 2012
- CL025-084006 Stone sculpture
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL025-084007 Graveslab
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL025-084008 Graveslab
Description
Sitting upright in the chancel of Rath church (CL025-084001-). A graveslab (Wth 0.82m; H 0.43m; T 0.1m) with the following inscription in incised capital letters 'The tomb under this vault was built by Christopher the son of Brian MacMurrough O'Brien in the year of our Lord God 1697.' The letters IHS are beneath the inscription. (Westropp 1898-1900, 375) The following image has been uploaded: CL025-084008-_01 Graveslab from E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 July 2019
- CL025-084009 Memorial stone
Description
Placed upright on top of the remains of a side chapel built onto the S face of Rath church (CL025-084001-). A limestone slab (Wth 0.68m; H 0.64m; T 0.18m) with an inscription carved in Roman capitals in false relief with the letters IHS overhead. The inscription reads 'This chapel is built by Mor Hogan for a burial place for him and his posterity to whom God be merciful 1696'. The chapel (ext. dims. Wth 4.4m; L 4.68m) is filled in internally to the current wall height (1.1m) and there is an opening into an underground burial chamber under the memorial slab at ground level. The slab was reported to the National Monuments Service by Patrick O'Leary. The following images have been uploaded: CL025-084009-_01.jpg Memorial stone with inscription from S. CL025-084009-_02.jpg Memorial stone in its current setting from SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 July 2019
- CL025-084010 Font
Description
Placed inside the S doorway of Rath church (CL025-084001-) and reused as a stoup. These are the remains of what would have been a free-standing font with a circular basin. The basin (diam. 0.34m; D 0.23m) has chamfered edges, sloping sides and a drain-hole. The font exterior is square (ext. dims. 0.43m x 0.43m) and bevels in on all sides to what must have been a central column. Just beneath the font in the doorway is another stone with a circular shallow hollow (diam. 0.13m) that would have formed part of the base. One corner of the font seems to have been cut out at some stage and replaced. The following images have been uploaded: CL025-084010-_01.jpg Font interior. CL025-084010-_02.jpf Font set inside S doorway of Rath church. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 August 2019
- CL025-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL025-087 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a ridge in a river valley with the land falling away steeply immediately to the E. A D-shaped enclosure (26m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.4-0.6m; H 0.8m) with a straight W side. Overgrown with blackthorn. The fields adjacent have been cleared and spoil has been dumped at W and N. A ringfort (CL025-086----) is 21m to the W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 July 2016
- CL025-088 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rath.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rath.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Rath · An Ráth
- Area
- 897,077 m² (89.71 ha, 221.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Corrofin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corrofin electoral division: 1,362 people in 535 households; 72% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahercorcaun, Cahernamona, Carhoo, Gortcooldurrin, Poulbaun, Scool, Shessiv
- Placenames
- Rath 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.