Rath East
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Ráth Thoir
- Area
- 139.6 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 5,116 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath East, from 130 m² to 675,311 m² (67.53 ha, 166.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 East 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
28 Mar 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5717
12 Dec 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and installation of proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13017
24 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11912
24 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted unit, dung pit and silage pit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4409
13 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Construction of slatted unit, dung pit and silage pit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13245
12 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7989
31 May 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7700
29 May 2006Conditional
Rehabilitation, treatment and care centre comprising residential building with 10 no. bedrooms, 2 no. staff bedrooms, kitchen, dining, meeting room and ancillary facilities, separate storage building and proprietary treatment unit, access road and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7591
10 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1441
27 Aug 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/4270
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 East.
Recorded monuments
- CO069-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, at break in NE-facing slope. Circular area (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.1m) E->NW with external fosse (D 0.3m); scarp (H 2.6m) elsewhere. Breaks in bank to SSW (Wth 2m) and SW. Interior raised on NE side to compensate for hillslope; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on NE-SW axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rath East.
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 high, moderately high, 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 Rath East.
- 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 East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rath East · An Ráth Thoir
- Area
- 1,395,657 m² (139.57 ha, 344.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnatubbrid electoral division: 474 people in 173 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolavoher, Coolierher, Derryfineen, Gortanimill, Gortnafunshion, Rath West
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Rath East 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.