Rathmaher

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmaher, from 3,094 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) to 207,878 m² (20.79 ha, 51.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathmaher 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.

• 22 Feb 2011Conditional

  Two storey dwelling, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4337

• 25 Jun 2008Conditional

  Storey and a half dwelling, treatment unit & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7471

• 23 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of cubicle house with underground tank, conversion of existing loose cattle house to cubicle house, dairy washings tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6394

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 Rathmaher.

Recorded monuments

• CO023-100 Country house
  Description

  Ruined rectangular (long axis SE-NW) 2-storey house, over basement; built by Purcells in 1790 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, 168). Rendered over random-rubble limestone with brick detail. Entrance front (SE) of 3 bays with plaster cornice; elliptical-arched door ope on left side, sidelights incorporated into frame, delicately carved cut-limestone surround. NE elevation of 4 bays, brick-arched window opes, brick cornice. SW elevation has round-headed stairway window in centre. Partially collapsed hipped roof with central valley. Two-storey farm building to NW; prominent keystone in arch decorated with carved coat-of-arm. Brick-lined walled garden to NW with remains of 2-storey stone-built tower in N wall. Sir Alexander Mac Donnell (see 14694) is said to have been buried in SW corner of garden, and reinterred in Clonmeen graveyard (14567) (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, 167). House demolished in 1985/6 (O'Sullivan 1986, 25). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO023-250 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  According to local information, Rathmaher House (CO023-100---) built on site of ringfort (Bowman 1934, 48). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Rathmaher.

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 Rathmaher, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathmaher · Ráth Mhachaire

Area

370,127 m² (37.01 ha, 91.46 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemagner, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Greenane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,440 people lived in 555 households in the Greenane electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Assolas, Ballintober, Ballyheen South, Glenlohane, Lackaleigh

Placenames

Rathmaher 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.