Rathernan

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathernan, from 101 m² to 642,793 m² (64.28 ha, 158.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Rathernan 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.

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  the proposed erection of a bungalow dwelling, garage/fuel store, and the installation of new waste water treatment system with percolation area, accessing site using existing vehicular site entrance and is to include all associated landscaping and site development works all

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22856

• 1 Jul 2022N/a

  sought for the proposed erection of a bungalow dwelling, garage/fuel store, and the installation of new waste water treatment system with percolation area, accessing site using existing vehicular site entrance and is to include all associated landscaping and site development works all

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22807

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307284.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP ) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Kilberry Bog Group

  N/a · Kildare County Council, 20307284

• 12 Jul 2017Conditional

  of domestic garage, domestic shed and all associated services

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17809

• 24 May 2017N/a

  to retain domestic garage, domestic shed and all associated services

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 17593

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 Rathernan.

Recorded monuments

• KD018-006001 Church
  Description

  According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 68 (200)), 'It is said that Saint Peter's Day was formerly celebrated here as the Patron Day of the Parish. Among other rectories, that of Ratherne (Rathernan), was granted to Sir Edmund Butler Knt., according to Inquis: 20th May 10 Eliz. (1668): cited by Archdall in his Monasticum under the heading "Great Connall"'. In the S sector of a graveyard (KD018-006002-), where it stands on a pronounced grass-covered, circular mound (diam. 22m; H 1.2-1.8m). The very poorly preserved remains comprise the S portion of the W gable wall (dims. L 5m N-S; H 3.8m; T 0.75m), described in 1986 as being built of roughly coursed mortared sandstone blocks (SMR file), but now completely obscured by ivy cover, together with a very short portion (L 0.5m) of the W end of the S wall. A gap (Wth 2m) in the W gable wall is the site of a robbed-out window. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD018-006002 Graveyard
  Description

  Occupying most of the E sector of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD018-006003-) and containing a church (KD018-006001-) in its S sector. The few legible burial markers stand to the E of the church and date to the 18th and 19th c. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD018-006003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Near the foot of a short, gentle W-facing pasture slope overlooking poor, wet, rough grazing to the W. Comprises the SE-half (NE-S-SW) of a large, poorly preserved, probably originally circular area (diam c. 90m), defined by a broad, curving, earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2.5m) NE-E-SE, which is hedged as a townland boundary NE-E, and by a curving roadside wall SE-S-SW. A graveyard (KD018-006002-) occupies most of the E half of the interior and contains a church (KD018-006001-) in its S sector. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Rathernan House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1808, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay two-storey projecting breakfront; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lower central return abutting single-bay (two- or three-bay deep) two-storey lower return (east). Pitched slate roof centred on hipped slate roof (breakfront); pitched slate roof (east), ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls on chamfered plinth. Remodelled round-headed central door opening with two cut-limestone steps, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Round-headed window openings (ground floor) with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six timber sash windows having fanlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement three-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having margined rock faced cut-limestone capping.

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_2596 (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 Rathernan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Rathernan · Ráth Earnáin

Area

2,053,448 m² (205.34 ha, 507.42 acres)

Civil parish

Rathernan, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Rathernan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathernan electoral division: 683 people in 221 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilmeage, Lattensbog, Russellstown

Placenames

Rathernan 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.