Rathcrihane

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Rathcrihane, from 71,632 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres) to 71,632 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Rathcrihane 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathcrihane in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rathcrihane.

Recorded monuments

• KE020-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 46m N-S, 45m E-W Rathcrihane/Ráth Creacháin, ringfort of Creachán (personal name). This very overgrown univallate rath is situated between two fields, and a fieldbank touches it to the NW and SE. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and exterior fosse. The enclosing earthen bank rises to c 1.2m above the interior and on average 2.2m above the fosse. The exterior fosse encloses the whole site and is well defined; it is 1.4m-3.6m wide and 1m deep. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and in the SW sector are souterrain remains which were discovered in 1938 when the landowner (Mr McKenna) was digging a grave for a dead horse and came across a small drystone shaft about .9m below the surface of the ground. This lead into a big souterrain (KE020-054001-) which, according to O'Connell (1938), was at least eight feet high. This fort is also connected to Sir Roger Casement, who was captured here in April 1916 (seeJKAHS No 20, 1987, 94-110). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 707. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 60/1938).

• KE020-054001 Souterrain
  Description

  Rathcrihane/Ráth Creacháin, ringfort of Creachán (personal name). Overgrown univallate rath KE020-054---- is situated between two fields, and a fieldbank touches it to the NW and SE. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and exterior fosse. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and in the SW sector are souterrain remains which were discovered in 1938 when the landowner (Mr McKenna) was digging a grave for a dead horse and came across a small drystone shaft about .9m below the surface of the ground. This lead into a big souterrain (KE020-054001-) which, according to O'Connell (1938), was at least eight feet high. This fort is also connected to Sir Roger Casement, who was captured here in April 1916 (see JKAHS No 20, 1987, 94-110). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 707. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 60/1938).

• KE020-054002 Enclosure
  Description

  This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 60/1938).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathcrihane.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_59 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Rathcrihane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rathcrihane

Area

71,632 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ardfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardfert electoral division: 1,100 people in 424 households; 60% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brandonwell, Killorane, Rahoneen

Placenames

Rathcrihane 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.