Ratharoon West
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinadee, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Ráth Sheathrúin Thiar
- Area
- 155.1 ha
- 383 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,682 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratharoon West, from 1,906 m² to 219,783 m² (21.98 ha, 54.31 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, slatted soiled water tank, concrete cow path, two no. rainwater harvesting tanks and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6441
29 May 2023Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5075
21 Apr 2023Withdrawn
Permission to construct loose house for equines and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4769
16 Feb 2023Conditional
The construction of a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4265
19 Jul 2019Conditional
Construction of a detached dwelling, construction of a detached garage with store area, and upgrading the existing farm entrance to a new vehicular access, new potable well, bio-filtration waste water treatment unit, boundary treatment, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5813
7 Jun 2019Incompleted application
Construction of a new detached dwelling, construction of a new detached garage with store area, and upgrading the existing farm entrance to a new vehicular access, new potable well bio filtration waste water treatment unit, boundary treatment, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5504
14 Dec 2018Conditional
The erection of a Domestic Garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7307
18 May 2016Conditional
Retention of the existing dwelling and Permission for construction of extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5197
8 Apr 2016Incompleted application
Retention of existing structure and extension to the existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4780
2 Apr 2014Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4655
7 Jul 2011Unconditional
Completion of dwellinghouse as permitted under Planning Reg. No. 06/7971
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/5466
18 Sept 2008Conditional
Additions & alterations to existing dwelling, reconstruction of garage structure & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8933
12 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7971
4 Nov 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8147
7 Oct 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7367
23 Jun 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4398
18 Apr 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/2478
6 May 2004Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/3083
3 Apr 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/1531
5 Mar 2003Refused
Dwelling & garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/912
8 Jan 2003New application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/29
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 Ratharoon West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ratharoon West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ratharoon 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 Ratharoon 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ratharoon West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ratharoon West · Ráth Sheathrúin Thiar
- Area
- 1,550,994 m² (155.1 ha, 383.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinadee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knockroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockroe electoral division: 767 people in 254 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymore, Garranbeg, Killanamaul, Lissaphooca, Maulskinlahane, Ratharoon East
- Placenames
- Ratharoon 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.