Rathmoyle

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmoyle, from 13,863 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres) to 296,102 m² (29.61 ha, 73.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathmoyle 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathmoyle in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rathmoyle.

Recorded monuments

• KK013-099 Burial
  Description

  On a N-S ridge between two small valleys. There are very fine views in all directions. According to Graves (1852-3, 190-2) the townland of Rathmoyle, ‘takes its name from a rath of the same appellation, which, when entire, crowned a small eminence of lime-stone gravel situate on the elevated ridge, which rises to the south of the parish church’. The ridge was quarried and, ‘a great part of the rath has been removed…The excavation thus formed presents a section of the rath, and proves it to be, not a remain of military or defensive class, but a thickly peopled cemetery’ (ibid.). He describes how, ‘about eighteen inches or two feet under the surface may be seen, protruding from the sides of the sand-pit, human bones, which are found not confusedly buried, but belonging to perfect skeletons which had been interred without any coffin or cist of stones or flags. They lie for the most part with the head to the east, and feet to the west, and show no signs of cremation. I have been assured by the neighbouring peasantry that no arms or ornaments of any kind have ever been turned up; while the human remains are so abundant, that I was informed by one man that he had often carried away as many as two or three skulls in one horse load of gravel’ (ibid.). He also noted that, ‘the north face of the excavation exhibits a perfect section of a pit sunk into the gravel about five feet deep, and ten or twelve in diameter. This pit may be traced by a well marked line of charcoal, calcined bones, and clinkers or slag’ (ibid.). Graves presented some of the bones from examination by a Dr. Crane who stated that, ‘the greater portion of them belonged to human beings who appeared, from the teeth, to have been aged about fifty. A few of the bones seemed to have belonged to the skeleton of a sheep’ (ibid.). The description of the earthwork as a rath, suggests that the monument had an enclosing bank, it was probably a barrow (KK013-135----). The townland is dominated by a N-S ridge and on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a quarry (diam. c. 85m) is indicated at the highest point of this ridge, with a limekiln immediately S of it. It is likely that this is where the burials were located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 April 2020

• KK013-135 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a N-S ridge between two small valleys. There are very fine views in all directions. A possible barrow associated with burials (KK013-099----). According to Graves (1852-3, 190-2) the townland of Rathmoyle, ‘takes its name from a rath of the same appellation, which, when entire, crowned a small eminence of lime-stone gravel situate on the elevated ridge, which rises to the south of the parish church’. The ridge was quarried and, ‘a great part of the rath has been removed…The excavation thus formed presents a section of the rath, and proves it to be, not a remain of military or defensive class, but a thickly peopled cemetery’ (ibid.). He describes how, ‘about eighteen inches or two feet under the surface may be seen, protruding from the sides of the sand-pit, human bones, which are found not confusedly buried, but belonging to perfect skeletons which had been interred without any coffin or cist of stones or flags. They lie for the most part with the head to the east, and feet to the west, and show no signs of cremation. I have been assured by the neighbouring peasantry that no arms or ornaments of any kind have ever been turned up; while the human remains are so abundant, that I was informed by one man that he had often carried away as many as two or three skulls in one horse load of gravel’ (ibid.). He also noted that, ‘the north face of the excavation exhibits a perfect section of a pit sunk into the gravel about five feet deep, and ten or twelve in diameter. This pit may be traced by a well marked line of charcoal, calcined bones, and clinkers or slag’ (ibid.). Graves presented some of the bones from examination by a Dr. Crane who stated that, ‘the greater portion of them belonged to human beings who appeared, from the teeth, to have been aged about fifty. A few of the bones seemed to have belonged to the skeleton of a sheep’ (ibid.). The description of the earthwork as a rath, suggests that the monument had an enclosing bank, it was probably a barrow. The townland is dominated by a N-S ridge and on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a quarry (diam. c. 85m) is indicated at the highest point of this ridge, with a limekiln immediately S of it. It is likely that this is where the burials were located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 April 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rathmoyle, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rathmoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathmoyle · An Ráth Mhaol

Area

1,515,922 m² (151.59 ha, 374.59 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinamara, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Ballinamara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

390 people lived in 132 households in the Ballinamara electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycannon, Ballydaniel, Ballydowel Little, Earlsbog, Kingsland East, Knockroe, Lushkinnagh, Rahelty

Placenames

Rathmoyle 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.