Rathcoffey South

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcoffey South, from 212 m² to 504,146 m² (50.41 ha, 124.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Rathcoffey South 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.

• 16 Apr 2026Conditional

  sub-dividing a site, constructing a two-storey type dwelling, recessed vehicular entrance, proprietary effluent treatment system, and all ancillary site-works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660414

• 3 Jul 2025Refused

  for construction of a rotary milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, drafting facilities, cubicle shed, roofless cubicles, underground slatted tank, silage pit and lined slurry lagoon, erection of external milk tank, meal bins, water storage tank, internal farm roadway, alterations to existing farm entrance and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development. This application falls within the curtilage of Protected Structures, Castle, RPS No B10-02.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560744

• 10 Jun 2025N/a

  for rotary milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, drafting facilities, cubicle shed, roofless cubicles, underground slatted tank, silage pit and lined slurry lagoon, erection of external milk tank, meal bins, water storage tank, internal farm roadway, alterations to existing farm entrance and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560648

• 22 Dec 2022Refused

  constructing two single storey bungalows, individual treatment systems, dual entrance and all associated ancillary site-works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 221532

• 21 Oct 2022Refused

  the construction of 4 no. single/two-storey, 4 bed, dwellings each with 2 no. car park spaces and individual wastewater treatment systems and percolation areas, re-use/widening of existing entrance and provide 1 no. additional new entrance from School Road and all associated landscaping and ancillary site works including new internal local access road

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 221248

• 6 Jan 2022Conditional

  construction of a rotary milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, drafting facilities, cubicle shed, roofless cubicles, underground slatted tank, silage pit and lined slurry lagoon, erection of external milk tank, meal bins and water storage tank and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a proposed alternative access at a different location within the landholding and proposed works at that new entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 225

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  a new detached single storey storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21603

• 13 Nov 2019Conditional

  development at the existing two-storey mixed use building. The development will consist of a change of use to part of the ground floor operations with associated alterations to existing internal layout and external façade at ground and first floor levels. The existing ground floor office space with associated ancillary WC and canteen (105sqm) will be changed to Café use with supporting disabled WC and Chef facility. A new business sign will be installed over the new recessed glazed Café entrance to match the existing Bar signage. The existing glazed enclosure at first floor level containing a stair will be removed and replaced by a new glazed screen. Additional car parking will be provided and accessed via the existing vehicular entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191267

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  the construction of a single storey standalone extension to the existing school buildings. The proposed extension shall be approximately 370sqm with a ridge height of approximately 5.8m above ground floor level. It shall be located to the North-East of the existing school main accommodation. The proposed works shall comprise of two no. primary classrooms with ancillary wc facilities and one no. multi-purpose hall for PE and assembly purposes. The new extension will accommodate existing staff and pupil numbers currently using the school facilities

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18520

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 Rathcoffey South.

Recorded monuments

• KD010-074 Enclosure
  Description

  Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; faintly visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (25-3-2020) as an oval enclosure (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 34m E-W) defined by the cropmark of a narrow fosse, in tillage. See attached image: KD010-074----_01 Snip from Digital Globe aerial imagery. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 9 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_2757 (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 Rathcoffey South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Rathcoffey South · Ráth Chofaigh Theas

Area

1,038,466 m² (103.85 ha, 256.61 acres)

Civil parish

Balraheen, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Balraheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Balraheen electoral division: 2,559 people in 663 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonagh, Danielstown, Graiguesallagh, Moortown, Rathcoffey Demesne, Rathcoffey North

Placenames

Rathcoffey South 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.