Rathaleek

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathaleek, from 35 m² to 232,431 m² (23.24 ha, 57.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Rathaleek 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.

• 4 Dec 2023N/a

  for works relating to the Turbine Delivery Route for Farranrory Wind Farm. The proposed development will consist of: • Construction of a Blade transfer area, located off the N76, in the townlands of Browns Town, and Rathaleek includes hardstanding areas for cranes, welfare facilities and parking for staff, laydown area for turbine blades, temporary removable security barrier and all associated drainage and ancillary works. • Temporary widening of a section of the R691 in the townland of Ballyclovan at the junction of the R695 comprising construction of a stoned area to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. Advisory Note : There are also works required in County Tipperary, and a separate amendment planning application will be made for these to Tipperary County Council. The planning application will be accompanied by an Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360553

• 21 Nov 2023N/a

  for the construction of a Blade transfer area, located off the N76, in the townlands of Browns Town, and Rathaleek includes hardstanding areas for cranes, welfare facilities and parking for staff, laydown area for turbine blades, temporary removable security barrier and all associated drainage and ancillary works. •Temporary widening of a section of the R691 in the townland of Ballyclovan at the junction of the R695 comprising construction of a stoned area to accommodate abnormal load deliveries.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360527

• 25 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a bungalow, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20557

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 Rathaleek.

Recorded monuments

• KK023-006 Enclosure
  Description

  In a small field surrounded by pasture and tillage. It is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1947 revision as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 47m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with a small pond (dims. c. 23m x 17m) c. 12m to the W. Another small pond is indicated on the 1st ed. map c. 30m tot he NE with a stream running westward from it. A farm track runs E-W through the N half of the monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2170 (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 Rathaleek with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathaleek · Ráth Áilíocáin

Area

688,506 m² (68.85 ha, 170.13 acres)

Civil parish

Castleinch or Inchyolaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 903 people in 285 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brownstown, Grangecuffe, Kilmog or Racecourse, Knocklegan, Parkmore, Raheenapisha

Placenames

Rathaleek 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.