Rathard

174 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathard, from 18 m² to 455,131 m² (45.51 ha, 112.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to convert his attic area to storage and to install rooflights on all four elevations (eight in total), all to his dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0986

• 23 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission to convert attic area to storage and to install rooflights on all four elevations (eight in total), all to his dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0709

• 30 May 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for the construction of new storey & half detached dwelling house, domestic garage, individual waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works. (residential development currently under construction) this planning is a change of plans of site no.9, from what was granted planning permission under ref. no. 22/4222

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5022

• 19 May 2025Refused

  Permission for retention of a) a two storey domestic extension to dwelling house (protected structure), b) vehicular entrance and c) bored well along with Permission to replace the existing septic tank and install a new treatment unit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4939

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission to convert and extend existing domestic garage for use as a granny flat adjacent to existing dwelling, new detached domestic shed and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4734

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of new dwellinghouse and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6130

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling with roof mounted PV solar panels, and including a single storey detached garage, a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, a new entrance, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5716

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  Permission for new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, sewerage system and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5542

• 23 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house , detached domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5398

• 22 Feb 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of a two storey extension to dwelling house, bored well, septic tank and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4298

• 19 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission; 1) to subdivide existing site forming 2 no. sites A & B, 2) to construct a dormer style dwelling including a proprietary wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and decommissioning and removal of existing septic tank, on site B, 3)install a new proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area to serve existing dwelling on site A, together with all site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5252

• 15 May 2023Incompleted application

  i) To subdivide existing site forming 2 No. sites A & B, ii) To construct a dormer style dwelling including a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and decommissioning and removal of existing septic tank, on site B, iii) Install a new proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area to serve existing dwelling on site A, together with all site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4973

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  The construction of a one and a half storey dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4840

• 15 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for the retention of a shed used for the purpose of storing agricultural machinery.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6544

• 3 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for dwelling house, an effluent treatment system and associated site works and permission for retention of an entrance that will serve the dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6472

• 31 May 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house (change of house design from that granted previously under Planning Reference 21/6187), a detached domestic use garage, an on-site waste-water treatment system, a new splayed vehicular access to the site from the public road and all other associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5255

• 25 Apr 2022Incompleted application

  The construction of a dwellinghouse – change of house design from that granted previously under planning reference 21/6187 – a detached domestic use garage, an on-site waste-water treatment system, a new splayed vehicular access to the site from the public road and all other associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4936

• 14 Mar 2022Refused

  Permission for new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4562

• 16 Feb 2022Incompleted application

  New two storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4317

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional permission

  The construction of a residential development of 9 no. 4 bedroom, detached dwelling houses with ancillary single storey detached garages, individual wastewater treatment units and all ancillary site development works. Access to the proposed development will be via a new entrance from the L-2217. Ancillary site development works include the provision of a new footpath along the L-2217 which will connect to the existing footpath network to the north.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4222

• 26 Jan 2022Refused

  Dwelling house, domestic garage, an effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4128

• 30 Dec 2021Incompleted application

  Construction of solar panel array consisting of 16 solar panels and associated equipment. The solar array is intended to be installed to the rear of the dwelling. The solar array is intended to be ground mounted arranged in portrait with two rows of 8. The solar panels are of type Longi 375W with part number LR4-60HPH-375M and manufacturer Longi.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7523

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling house consisting of a rear first floor and part ground floor extension; single storey extension to existing rear shed incorporating a home office and bike shed, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7394

• 26 Nov 2021Incompleted application

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling house consisting of a rear first floor and part ground floor extension; single storey extension to existing rear shed and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7199

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  To construct a dwellinghouse, garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6187

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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 Rathard.

Recorded monuments

• CO084-016001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. 32m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.5m). Entrance to N. Possible souterrain (CO084-016002-) in interior. 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

• CO084-016002 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (CO084-016001-); marked 'Cave' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Noted by Hartnett (1939, 248-9) as 'shallow depression slightly west of the centre of the fort'.This depression remains visible. 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

• CO084-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 31.5m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Banks (ext. H 1.5m) and fosse to W narrower and wider respectively than earthworks to E side. Interior used for grazing. Hartnett (1939, 249) recorded entrance to NE. 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

• CO084-018 Country house
  Description

  Rectangular house of late 18th/early 19th-century appearance, 2-storey over basement with hipped roof. Entrance front (S) of 5 bays, central door with fanlight, sidelights incorporated into frame. Rear of 3 bays with central tall round-headed stairway window. Rear of house forms part of yard enclosed otherwise by 2-storey stone-built farm buildings. 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

• CO084-128 Burial ground
  Description

  Hilly pasture field known locally as "the killeen". Pathway supposed to have led from here to Kilbonane graveyard (CO084-012001-) c. 1.5km to NW. No surface trace of burials. 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

• St Mark's Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1901, having five-bay nave, chancel to rear (east), entrance porch to front (south) and lean-to sacristy over basement to rear (north). Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone bellcote to western gable, terracotta ridge cresting, limestone gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed limestone walls with tooled quoins having slight batter to base. Pointed arch window openings with tooled limestone sills and surrounds throughout, having cast-iron quarry-glazed windows. Paired windows to side (west) elevation with quatrefoil window opening to gable. Group of three windows to side (east) elevation. Pointed arch door opening to porch, having chamfered limestone surround and timber battened door opening to cut limestone steps. Shouldered square-headed door opening to sacristy with cut limestone surround, timber battened door and cut limestone steps. Square-headed door opening to basement with red brick block-and-start surround and timber battened door, accessed via dressed limestone steps. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate supported by cast-iron posts to west of site. Square-profile cut limestone piers with pointed caps flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates with rubble stone boundary wall.

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 Rathard, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathard.

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

Name

Rathard · An Ráth Ard

Area

3,126,432 m² (312.64 ha, 772.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Kilbonane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,344 people lived in 415 households in the Kilbonane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aherla Beg, Aherla More, Currahaly, Knockawaddra, Knocknahilan, Scart Upper

Placenames

Rathard 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.