Rathwalkin

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathwalkin, from 3,217 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) to 946,593 m² (94.66 ha, 233.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Rathwalkin 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.

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dormer dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, access to be shared via an existing domestic entrance & laneway and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22675

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  (a) construction of a milking parlour, drafting and handling facilities, waiting yard with underground slatted slurry storage tank, and ancillary dairy rooms. (b) construction of an agricultural cubicle shed to include underground slatted tanks. (c) relocation of a farm-yard entrance and access roadway. (d) erection of an external meal bin, water tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181541

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 Rathwalkin.

Recorded monuments

• KD022-021 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a narrow terrace in a W-facing slope near the S-foot of the Red Hills (OD 197m). A very large and well-defined, oval earthen mound (H 1.9m at NE-3.5m at SW; base diams. 68m NW-SE; 58m NE-SW; upper surface diams. 17m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE) is girdled by a broad berm (total ext. diams. 129m NW-SE; 111m NE-SW). Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDO 41 (1970) and BGN 16 (1971)) show the cropmarks of both a wide external fosse and a narrow inner fosse. These features are no longer visible at ground level. Possibly an exceptionally large barrow like the one in Hallahoise (KD037-051----). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 06 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathwalkin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Rathwalkin

Area

994,196 m² (99.42 ha, 245.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kildare, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Thomastown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Thomastown electoral division: 990 people in 294 households; 88% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crossmorris, Knocknagalliagh, Lackagh Beg, Redhills, Watergrange

Placenames

Rathwalkin 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.