Rathduff

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathduff, from 1,547 m² to 259,188 m² (25.92 ha, 64.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Rathduff 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.

• 16 May 2022Conditional

  retain alterations to my existing dwelling to include retaining the construction of a porch to the front elevation, construction of a single storey extension to the side elevation, internal alterations and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22302

• 9 Feb 2018N/a

  construct a single storey dressing room extension together with toilets and store with connection to existing onsite services and all associated site works which are within the curtilage of 4 no. protected structures, RPS NO'S 965, 966, 967, 968

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1862

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 Rathduff.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathduff.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2457 (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 Rathduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rathduff · An Ráth Dhubh

Area

631,250 m² (63.13 ha, 155.99 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Shrule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shrule electoral division: 316 people in 104 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanaboe, Hollymount, Knockbeg, Leagh, Sleaty

Placenames

Rathduff 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.