Rathmalode

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmalode, from 143 m² to 168,575 m² (16.86 ha, 41.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rathmalode 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.

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  (a)RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES(B) PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING STORAGE BUILDING AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE (C)PERMISSION TO INSTALL A CONCRETE DISHED WATER CHANNEL ACROSS THE EXISTING DRIVEWAY WHICH SHALL DISCHARGE TO A NEW SOAKPIT &AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181262

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 Rathmalode.

Recorded monuments

• KE045-034 Burial ground
  Description

  A spot directly W of the farmhouse in this townland is reputedly the site of a burial ground but no bones or graves have been uncovered within living memory. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 909. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE045-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 39.5m This densely-overgrown rath is located in wet pastureland on a S facing slope overlooking the valley of the Emlagh river. The interior is planted with coniferous trees and the hut-site and souterrain which occupied the centre of the interior have been interfered with considerably. It was reputedly from this souterrain that 2 ogham stones were removed for use as door-lintels in buildings in the adjacent townland of Lougher. The site is enclosed by an earthen bank and fosse and an outer bank which may be a later field boundary. The outer bank averages .9m in height externally, 1.5m in height internally and 2.4m in width at base. Along the W sector it is only faintly discernible. It is marked on the 2nd edition of the OS map as a field fence and this interpretation is supported by the fact that it continues across each of the possible entrances in the inner bank. The only gap in the outer bank occurs at S, in the vicinity of, but not opposite, 2 breaks in the inner bank. The fosse is 3m wide at base and rises 2.75m to the crest of the inner bank. It was formerly much deeper (local information). The inner bank is 1.6m high above the interior. It is not clear which of the 5 breaks in the bank represent the original entrance. Hut-site (KE045-035001-) and Souterrain (KE045-035002-): A curving earth and stone bank in the centre of the interior may represent the N half of a circular hut. It is 2.5m wide and .25m high. A considerable quantity of stone has been removed from this area in the past (local information). Directly S of this is a shallow depression which apparently marks the location of a small, stone-built souterrain (local information). Ogham stones: (1) (KE045-035003-) Hitchcock (1853, 401) discovered this stone acting as the lintel to a cottage door in Lougher townland and it is now preserved in the NMI. It formerly acted as a souterrain lintel in a rath in Rathmalode townland, and though Macalister (1945, 189) described the fort as small and erased, this is the only known ringfort in the townland and is therefore the probable provenance. The stone is .28m wide, .1m thick and at least 1.04m long. Its base, including the last 4 letters of the inscription, are concealed by the wooden base in which the stone now stands and Macalister's reading of this section could not be verified. However, the visible scores are all clearly legible and there is little disagreement in previous accounts as to the reading of the inscription: The V is followed by 1 or 2 vowel scores, but the stone is then fractured and the remainder of the final name is missing. (2) (KE045-035004-) Until recently this stone acted as the door lintel to an outhouse in Lougher townland and reputedly came from the rath in the adjoining townland of Rathmalode (Macalister 1945, 190-1). The Co. Kerry Field Club (1939) mention briefly the possibility that it came from a grave-site (KE045-110----) in Lougher townland, but their informant is now deceased and the information could not be verified. The stone is now in the possession of Oidhreacht Chorea Dhuibhne, Ballyferriter. It is 1.24m long, .34m wide and .1m thick. The stone is broken at one end and only 2 letters of the last name are visible. The inscription reads: ERCAVICCAS MAQI CO..... The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 520. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE045-035001 Hut site
  Description

  Densely-overgrown rath KE045-035---- is located in wet pastureland on a S facing slope overlooking the valley of the Emlagh river. The interior is planted with coniferous trees and the hut-site and souterrain which occupied the centre of the interior have been interfered with considerably. It was reputedly from this souterrain that 2 ogham stones were removed for use as door-lintels in buildings in the adjacent townland of Lougher. Hut-site (KE045-035001-) and Souterrain (KE045-035002-): A curving earth and stone bank in the centre of the interior may represent the N half of a circular hut. It is 2.5m wide and .25m high. A considerable quantity of stone has been removed from this area in the past (local information). Directly S of this is a shallow depression which apparently marks the location of a small, stone-built souterrain (local information). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 520. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE045-035002 Souterrain
  Description

  Densely-overgrown rath KE045-035---- is located in wet pastureland on a S facing slope overlooking the valley of the Emlagh river. The interior is planted with coniferous trees and the hut-site and souterrain which occupied the centre of the interior have been interfered with considerably. It was reputedly from this souterrain that 2 ogham stones were removed for use as door-lintels in buildings in the adjacent townland of Lougher. Hut-site (KE045-035001-) and Souterrain (KE045-035002-): A curving earth and stone bank in the centre of the interior may represent the N half of a circular hut. It is 2.5m wide and .25m high. A considerable quantity of stone has been removed from this area in the past (local information). Directly S of this is a shallow depression which apparently marks the location of a small, stone-built souterrain (local information). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 520. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE045-035003 Ogham stone
  Description

  Hitchcock (1853, 401) discovered this stone acting as the lintel to a cottage door in Lougher townland and it is now in the museum in Ballyferriter (see KE042-165----). It formerly acted as a souterrain lintel in a rath in Rathmalode townland, and though Macalister (1945, 189, no. 195) described the fort as small and erased, this is the only known ringfort in the townland and is therefore the probable provenance. The stone is 0.28m wide, 0.1m thick and at least 1.04m long. Its base, including the last 4 letters of the inscription, are concealed by the wooden base in which the stone now stands and Macalister's reading of this section could not be verified. However, the visible scores are all clearly legible and there is little disagreement in previous accounts as to the reading of the inscription: CURCI MAQI MUCOI V…… The V is followed by 1 or 2 vowel scores, but the stone is then fractured and the remainder of the final name is missing. (Cuppage 1986, no. 520) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=195 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 16 January 2017

• KE045-035004 Ogham stone
  Description

  Until recently this stone acted as the door lintel to an outhouse in Lougher townland and reputedly came from the rath in the adjoining townland of Rathmalode (Macalister 1945, 190-1, no. 196). The Co. Kerry Field Club (1939) mention briefly the possibility that it came from a grave-site (KE045-110----) in Lougher townland, but their informant is now deceased and the information could not be verified. The stone is now in Musáem Chorca Dhuibhne, Ballyferriter [KE042-166----]. It is 1.24m long, .34m wide and .1m thick. The stone is broken at one end and only 2 letters of the last name are visible. The inscription reads: ERCAVICCAS MAQI CO.....' (Cuppage 1986, no. 520) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=196 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 16 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathmalode, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathmalode · Ráth Málóid

Area

193,440 m² (19.34 ha, 47.8 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinvoher, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Inch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

160 people lived in 68 households in the Inch electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glannaheera, Gortbreagoge, Lougher

Placenames

Rathmalode 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.