Rath West

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath West, from 62 m² to 289,595 m² (28.96 ha, 71.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Rath West 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.

• 15 May 2013Conditional

  Permission to retain pre-fabricated wooden structure for domestic use ancillary to existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4906

• 30 Apr 2010Incompleted application

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5030

• 2 Apr 2004Conditional

  Retenion of dormer windows to dwelling, and alterations to 2 no. outbuildings, septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2201

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 Rath West.

Recorded monuments

• CO069-074 Enclosure
  Description

  On rough mountain side, on NE-facing slope. Oval area (17.6m E-W; 11.9m N-S) enclosed by stone wall (H 1.1m; Wth 1.36m) WSW->NW; single stones, some of which are contiguous, elsewhere. Wall consists of several boulders along base with smaller stones packed in between and on top. Interior level and grass-covered; small boulder (H 0.4m; 0.89m x 0.95m) c. 5m inside E end of enclosure. Locally known as 'Mike Jack's cahereen' and thought to have 'something to do with rounding up cattle'. 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 West.

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 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 West.

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 Rath West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Rath West · An Ráth Thiar

Area

1,055,311 m² (105.53 ha, 260.77 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

Coolierher, Derryfineen, Gortnascarty, Gortyrahilly, Rath East

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Rath West 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.