Rathwilladoon

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathwilladoon, from 5 m² to 176,560 m² (17.66 ha, 43.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Rathwilladoon 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.

• 4 Sept 2025Conditional

  for proposed new dwelling house, with garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561247

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage/store, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460535

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a new single private dwellinghouse with associated on-site wastewater treatment system, along with a domestic garage on a green field site

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360728

• 10 Nov 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system & percolation area & for all ancillary services & site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 177.00sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261136

• 22 Jul 2021N/a

  to build (1) A water treatment plant building, (2) A treated water storage reservoir and (3) A Raw storage tank plus ancillary services. This planning application is accompanied by an archaeologists Report as the subject site encompasses the area of constraint for recorded monument GA128-066. Gross floor space of proposed works 64.85 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211342

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a calving unit and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 200.8sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18744

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 Rathwilladoon.

Recorded monuments

• GA128-066001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA128-066002 Building
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA128-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. This poorly preserved D-shaped rath (41.3m N-S; 38.3m E-W), with a straight SW side, is defined by a collapsed bank of earth and stone, which is obscured by overgrowth from NW through E to S. Elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• GA128-069 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Some 40m to the SE of a rath (GA128-070----). This poorly preserved burial ground consists of an unenclosed oval area (NE-SW 24m, NW-SE 11.5m) sloping down to E. Within it a number of small set stones and slabs, haphazardly arranged, indicate graves. A mature tree is growing in the centre of the interior. Possibly a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• GA128-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill summit in grassland. An almost circular rath (39.6m E-W; 38m NNW-SSE), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NNW to SSE, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary cuts through the monument at NNW and SSE. A gap (Wth 2.9m) at SE may be original. Within the centre of the interior is a souterrain (GA128-070001-). A graveyard (GA128-069----) lies c. 40m to the SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• GA128-070001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the centre of a rath (GA128-070----). An inaccessible souterrain, seemingly T-shaped in plan, with the 'main' passage running NNE-SSW was noted when initially inspected in July 1982. One roof lintel (L 0.9m; Wth 0.9m; H 0.3m) was noted. On a revisit in May 1992 a small stone-filled depression marked the site of the souterrain. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof with decorative raised ridge, low rendered chimneystacks, and render eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoin courses. Square-headed door opening to front (south) elevation having render surround and half-glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings to front with render surrounds, painted sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash and one recent timber window. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to small front garden having square-profile piers to pedestrian gate.

• Bridge, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1869, carrying road over Ennis-Athenry railway line. Rock-faced rusticated ashlar stone walls and parapets, having recent concrete copings to latter. Shallow stone abutments to each elevation, flanking elliptical arch with rock-faced rusticated tooled stone voussoirs with margins, and ashlar soffit.

• Tubber Railway Station, railway station, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, built c.1870, now in use as private house. Comprises four-bay single-storey stationhouse having open veranda to front supported on cast-iron columns, front edge of veranda being flush with attached single-storey with attic stationmaster's house. Addition to rear under catslide roof. Stationmaster's house has canted bay window to ground floor of trackside elevation. Now in use as residence. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and timber eaves course and with decorative timber bargeboards to house. Roughcast rendered walls having tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed door opening to front elevation with double-leaf timber panelled door. Square-headed timber battened door to addition. Square-headed window openings throughout, with tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to trackside elevation of stationhouse and bay window of stationmaster's house, three-over-three to first floor of latter, and four-over-four to rear of stationhouse. Timber station sign 'Tubber' and fixed timber seating under veranda to trackside of stationhouse.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Rathwilladoon, Tubber9 sales

Name

Rathwilladoon · Ráth Mhaoile Dúin

Area

1,492,329 m² (149.23 ha, 368.76 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barna, Carrowcraheen (Co. Clare), Curtaun, Fiddaun, Gortavoher, Knocktoby, Monreagh (Co. Clare), Scarriff

Placenames

Rathwilladoon 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.