Rathbane

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbane, from 30 m² to 324,328 m² (32.43 ha, 80.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Rathbane 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.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  to retain a converted space over existing milking parlor to a livable space which consist of an open plan living / kitchen area two bedrooms and bathroom , with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560280

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  to retain a slatted cattle shed and associated site works and services and permission to carry out site works and extend roofs to allow rain water management

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560176

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the erection of an agricultural storage shed, a site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560061

• 29 Jan 2024Refused

  to retain a slatted cattle shed and associated site works and service

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460035

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  a new agricultural entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360565

• 12 Aug 2021N/a

  develop an underground mine extension to the former Galmoy Zinc & Lead Mine. The underground extension to the mine underlies the townland of Kyle, Co. Laois and will comprise the development of underground workings including an access route to join underground mining works concurrently proposed as recommencement of mining in Co. Kilkenny under Reg. Ref. 21/599 in the Kilkenny townlands of Garrylaun, Castletown, Rathreagh, Rathpatrick, Whiteswall, Moneynamuck (Stopford), Rathbane and Waterland close to the village of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny. An IPC licence is required in relation to the proposed development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statemtent (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21568

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  to erect outdoor cubicles with automatic scrapers and slatted tanks, unroofed collection yard, milking parlour, dairy, office plant room/store, bulk tank, water tank, meal bin, calfing shed, silage bases and all associated works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18177

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galmoy Fen SAC 001858
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galmoy Fen 001858

Recorded monuments

• KK003-016 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  On a small hillock in flat marshy area within a broad river valley. Land rises slightly to the N and E. The fields to the S are largely reclaimed and cultivated. The monument consists of a circular enclosure (diam. 31m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m; Wth c. 1.5m), an intervening fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m; Wth 3m). This outer bank is enclosed by a broad flat berm (Wth c. 11m) and an outermost bank which is particularly large in the W quadrant (Wth at least 3.5m; H 0.6m), though elsewhere it is smaller and more typically like a field boundary. There is a possible causewayed entrance in the E quadrant across the intervening fosse, though immediately E of this the outer bank rises in height (H 0.8m) before terminating N of the causeway. The outer bank from W-E is quite eroded. A field bank runs N-S across the S section of berm. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 February 2016

• KK003-017 Enclosure
  Description

  In marshy flat pasture within a broad river valley. A circular flat-topped raised area (dims. 14m N-S; 13m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.8-1m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 February 2016

• KK003-019 Enclosure
  Description

  On gently rising land to W of the River Goul in rolling grassland. Good views in all directions. There is a ringfort indicated at this location on the Grand Jury Maps. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 February 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Rathbane.

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 Rathbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathbane · An Ráth Bhán

Area

1,910,727 m² (191.07 ha, 472.15 acres)

Civil parish

Erke, and its townlands

Barony

Galmoy

Electoral division

Galmoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Galmoy electoral division: 361 people in 120 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinfrase (Co. Laois), Cooloultha or Moneynamuck, Moneynamuck (Stopford), Rathreagh, Srahbaun (Co. Laois), Whiteswall

Placenames

Rathbane 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.