Rathfield

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathfield, from 16 m² to 168,418 m² (16.84 ha, 41.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Rathfield 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.

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING LEAN TO EXTENSION. PLANNING PERMISSION FOR BEDROOM EXTENSION , TO INSTALL NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT , INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22183

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE106-088001 Souterrain
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, there is no surface trace of the 'blocked souterrain and habitation site' noted by O'Connell at this location (KAS). Situated in a S sloping field of pasture, close to the N shore of Kenmare Bay, O'Connell reported the finding of 'remains' in the souterrain; it is not clear to what he was referring. It is possible that this and the following site are the same souterrain. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 898. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE106-090 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain, not marked on the OS maps, was discovered at this location in 1980 during the digging of the foundations for a house. It was inspected by Sweetman (OPW) prior to being closed up, and the following description is based on his report. The stone-built souterrain consists of three chambers and three passages, including an entrance passage. The latter is located at the W end of the structure and is 1.6m long. Aligned NE-SW, its drystone-built side-walls are capped with large lintels. Both its roof and floor levels rise upwards to SW, and at NE it leads into the S end of the first chamber. Both the N and S end-walls of this 3.1m long chamber are constructed of upright slabs overlain by drystone walling. It narrows towards its N end where it measures .7m wide. From here a passage extends E for 2m to provide access to the W end of the larger, second chamber. This passage is .5m wide, and its sides are revetted with upright stones overlain by drystone walling. The second chamber, which is aligned E-W, is 3.5m long, 1.25m wide and almost 1m high. Its lintelled roof was disturbed when the souterrain was discovered. At the E end of its S wall is the entrance into the final chamber which is 2.4m long and 1m wide. A low, narrow passage curves to NE from the NE angle of the second chamber. It is 5m long and varies in width from .4m to .7m. Constructed of upright slabs with overlying drystone masonry, it is blocked with clay at its NE end. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 899. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE106-090001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  A stone enclosure is reputed to have existed at this location (local information) but no apparent surface trace of it now remains. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 899. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathfield, 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 high, 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 Rathfield.

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 Rathfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rathfield · Páirc na Rátha

Area

581,639 m² (58.16 ha, 143.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Caherdaniel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

316 people lived in 138 households in the Caherdaniel electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 58% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarnahan, Brackaharagh, Glanbeg, Gortnakilly, Rath

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Rathfield 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.