# Rathasker, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Naas, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Ráth Oscair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,205,663 m² (120.57 ha, 297.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,125 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 Agriculture, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Naas, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/naas.md - Barony: Naas North - Electoral division: Naas Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Naas Rural electoral division: 3,351 people in 1,139 households; 71% of households own their home; 69% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25973 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81037 - Centre: latitude 53.19567, longitude -6.685285 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathasker, from 2,278 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 662,840 m² (66.28 ha, 163.79 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018694: 662,840 m² (66.28 ha, 163.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018694.md - Parcel 5721401: 478,090 m² (47.81 ha, 118.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721401.md - Parcel 1024207: 15,315 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024207.md - Parcel 1087832: 11,529 m² (1.15 ha, 2.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1087832.md - Parcel 1088207: 6,421 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088207.md - Parcel 1078057: 5,828 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078057.md - Parcel 1089199: 3,989 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089199.md - Parcel 1089523: 2,369 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089523.md - Parcel 1087556: 2,292 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1087556.md - Parcel 1023847: 2,278 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023847.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 Agriculture: Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/NaasLocalAreaPlan2021-2027/ - S5 Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/NaasLocalAreaPlan2021-2027/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 10 Oct 2025, Kildare County Council 2561151: Conditional. Retention. of extension to existing stable block consisting of 2no. stables and 2no. plant rooms with all associated site development and facilitating works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561151/0 - 6 Nov 2023, Kildare County Council 2360359: Conditional. Permission. for change of use of the existing building from part residential, part guest house use to full guest house use. The proposed development includes minor internal reconfiguration of layouts to provide a total of 9 no. ensuite bedrooms including 1 no. accessible ensuite bedroom. Changes to the façade include minor modifications to the fenestration on the north, west and east elevations, addition of roof lights and new door openings. The proposal also consists of the provision of a wellness garden facility to include a gym (c. 40.3 sqm), a wellness pod (c. 50.5 sqm) incorporating a treatment pod, hot tub deck area, sauna, WC and plant room. 11 no. car parking spaces including 1 no. accessible space and 1 no. EV charging point and, 10 no. bicycle parking spaces are proposed at surface level. The existing domestic wastewater treatment system is proposed to be decommissioned and replaced with an upgraded wastewater treatment plant and associated percolation area. Access will be maintained via the existing vehicular entrance. The proposal includes all site services, boundary treatments, photovoltaic panels, plant areas, bin storage areas, hard and soft landscaping, drainage works and ancillary site development works on a site of 0.925 ha. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360359/0 - 29 Mar 2023, Kildare County Council 23320: Conditional. Permission. 4 no. agricultural polytunnels. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23320/0 - 28 Feb 2022, Kildare County Council 22213: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of 3 no. detached two-storey dwellings each with their own septic tank, percolation area, and entrance including all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22213/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathasker. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD024-001001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD024-001001-. On a hilltop (OD 423 feet) in pasture. In 1837 according to the OSL (Herity 2002, 59 (173)), ‘In Rathascar T.L. are the ruins of a castle [KD024-001002-] standing in the centre of a Fort or Mound.’ A circular area (diam 40m) was enclosed by an earthen bank, gapped at N and E, and an external fosse. The interior contained the foundations of a castle (KD024-001002-), probably a tower house (SMR file). The monuments were levelled in 1984, but subsurface remains may survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 June 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1971). - KD024-001002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD024-001002-. In an enclosure (KD024-001001-) and visible as the foundations of a rectangular structure (SMR file). Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (KD024-001001-) or bawn visible in aerial photographs, no visible remains of castle building (Digital Globe). In 1837 according to the OSL (Herity 2002, 59 (173)), ‘In Rathascar T.L. are the ruins of a castle standing in the centre of a Fort or Mound’ [KD024-001001-]. Both monuments were levelled in 1984, but subsurface remains may survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 May 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1971). 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathasker. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2725, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2725.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathasker.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathasker.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathasker.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathasker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bluebell: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bluebell.md - Jigginstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/jigginstown.md - Killashee: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killashee-80706.md - Killashee: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killashee-80705.md - Newland South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newland-south.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtown-80945.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathasker - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/rathasker