Rathmore
Rathmore is a townland in the civil parish of O'Brennan, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 392 ha
- 969 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 5,047 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 23 m² to 464,584 m² (46.46 ha, 114.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jan 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SILAGE BASE, NEW WALLS ON THREE SIDES COMPLETE WITH SAFETY BARRIERS, EFFLUENT CHANNELS AND EXTENSION TO WORKING APRON AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2356
3 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW ENTRANCE INCORPARATING GATES, POSTS, RAILING WIRE AT BOTH SIDES OF THE PUBLIC ROAD TO ALLOW COWS TO CROSS THE ROAD IN A SAFE MANNER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22232
23 Jun 2021Conditional
RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALSO TO RETAIN EXISTING GARAGE AT REAR OF DWELLING ALL WITHING REVISED BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21688
13 Apr 2021N/a
RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALSO TO RETAIN EXISTING GARAGE AT REAR OF DWELLING ALL WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES
Retention · Kerry County Council, 21378
10 Mar 2020Conditional
EXTEND EXISTING SILO BASE AND SILO APRON BY 2.5M IN WIDTH AND CONSTRUCT A SILO WALL 2.4M HIGH ON THE LOWER SIDE ALL NECESSARY SILO CHANNELS TO BE CONSTRUCTED, SILO EFFLUENT TO CHANNELED TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TANK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20230
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmore.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rathmore, about 1 in 20 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 Rathmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Rathmore
- Area
- 3,920,482 m² (392.05 ha, 968.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- O'Brennan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- O'Brennan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 538 people lived in 177 households in the O'Brennan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahercullenagh Upper, Esk, Keam, Knocknacurra, Knocknagoum, Muingavrannig, Muingnaminnane, Reanagowan, Shanaknock, Tylagh
- Placenames
- Rathmore 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.