# Rath, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 516,131 m² (51.61 ha, 127.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,644 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 772 people lived in 281 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13912 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52250 - Centre: latitude 54.587832, longitude -8.085442 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 637 m² to 155,685 m² (15.57 ha, 38.47 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1351989: 155,685 m² (15.57 ha, 38.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351989.md - Parcel 4993671: 102,551 m² (10.26 ha, 25.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993671.md - Parcel 1353123: 91,245 m² (9.12 ha, 22.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353123.md - Parcel 1314912: 47,880 m² (4.79 ha, 11.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314912.md - Parcel 1357966: 42,956 m² (4.3 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357966.md - Parcel 1371807: 21,183 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371807.md - Parcel 1346061: 16,844 m² (1.68 ha, 4.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346061.md - Parcel 1394935: 12,171 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394935.md - Parcel 4759403: 3,711 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759403.md - Parcel 4777903: 3,577 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4777903.md - Parcel 1391043: 2,679 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391043.md - Parcel 1330048: 2,562 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330048.md - Parcel 3664263: 2,485 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664263.md - Parcel 1362173: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362173.md - Parcel 1402438: 1,531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402438.md - Parcel 4993668: 1,404 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993668.md - Parcel 4890448: 1,294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4890448.md - Parcel 1423787: 637 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423787.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rath in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 27 Feb 2020, Donegal County Council 2050225: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & POLISHING FILTER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050225/0 - 15 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951074: Conditional. Retention. AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH LEAN TO. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951074/0 - 2 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850687: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLINGHOUSE, FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850687/0 - 26 Jul 2017, Donegal County Council 1751179: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 16/50084 & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751179/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rath. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG104-001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG104-001----. Internal diam. 29.4m. A subcircular area surrounded by an earthen bank, a fosse and an outer bank. A laneway cuts through the N side, the fosse having been extended for this purpose. It is very badly overgrown and situated in poor wet land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 - DG104-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG104-002----. Internal diam. 20m. A circular area enclosed by an earthen bank created by scarping the hillside and giving a steep appearance from the outside. Ploughing occurs right up to the bank and is probably responsible for a platform of earth which juts out from beneath it. It may also have obscured a fosse if one ever existed. The site is situated on top of a steep hill with excellent views in all directions but the land in the valleys is wet and marshy. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rath Bridge, bridge, 1750–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40910411, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40910411. Single-arched bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1780. Round-headed arch having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs and rubble stone masonry to arch barrel. Coursed and squared rubble stone construction with rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone coping; modern repairs in places. Rubble stone wing walls to either ends of parapets. Wing walls step-in on plan to centre. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Ballintra and to the north of Brownhall (see 40910401). - Bridge, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40910412, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40910412. Triple/multiple-arched bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1780. Round-headed arches having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs and rubble stone masonry to arch barrels. Coursed and squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and piers with coursed rubble stone and rubble stone construction to parapets with roughly squared stone coping over; rubble stone wing walls to either ends of parapets having roughly squared rubble stone coping over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Ballintra and to the north-west of Brownhall (see 40910401). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rath, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Rath. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rath.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rath.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rath.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballintooey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballintooey.md - Ballydermot: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballydermot.md - Carrickbreeny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickbreeny.md - Lisnapaste: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnapaste.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rath - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/rath