# Rathmoyle, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballinamara, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish An Ráth Mhaol. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,515,922 m² (151.59 ha, 374.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 55,265 m² (5.53 ha, 13.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballinamara, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/ballinamara.md - Barony: Crannagh - Electoral division: Ballinamara, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/1166597 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91362 - Centre: latitude 52.685621, longitude -7.361228 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 868161: 296,102 m² (29.61 ha, 73.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/868161.md - Parcel 870539: 147,024 m² (14.7 ha, 36.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/870539.md - Parcel 839165: 111,427 m² (11.14 ha, 27.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/839165.md - Parcel 833466: 97,125 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/833466.md - Parcel 867985: 92,656 m² (9.27 ha, 22.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/867985.md - Parcel 860272: 82,921 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/860272.md - Parcel 840716: 73,548 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/840716.md - Parcel 870129: 73,460 m² (7.35 ha, 18.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/870129.md - Parcel 821577: 70,766 m² (7.08 ha, 17.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/821577.md - Parcel 827870: 66,528 m² (6.65 ha, 16.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/827870.md - Parcel 817676: 58,792 m² (5.88 ha, 14.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/817676.md - Parcel 867369: 51,738 m² (5.17 ha, 12.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/867369.md - Parcel 866839: 39,053 m² (3.91 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/866839.md - Parcel 849187: 36,231 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/849187.md - Parcel 865262: 35,935 m² (3.59 ha, 8.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/865262.md - Parcel 818962: 34,844 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/818962.md - Parcel 848952: 34,140 m² (3.41 ha, 8.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/848952.md - Parcel 827506: 31,178 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/827506.md - Parcel 835962: 27,591 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/835962.md - Parcel 854423: 19,582 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/854423.md - Parcel 2402763: 17,923 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2402763.md - Parcel 854678: 13,863 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/854678.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Rathmoyle in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathmoyle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KK013-099: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK013-099----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK013-135----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmoyle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/rathmoyle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/rathmoyle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/rathmoyle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathmoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycannon: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballycannon.md - Ballydaniel: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballydaniel.md - Ballydowel Little: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballydowel-little.md - Earlsbog: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/earlsbog.md - Kingsland East: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/kingsland-east.md - Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knockroe-91052.md - Lushkinnagh: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/lushkinnagh.md - Rahelty: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/rahelty.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/rathmoyle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/rathmoyle