Rathnamanagh

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnamanagh, from 1,429 m² to 286,040 m² (28.6 ha, 70.68 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 Rathnamanagh 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.

• 25 Jun 2026Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area , new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660407

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct a single-storey dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560606

• 17 Sept 2025N/a

  construct a single-storey dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560592

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, proprietary sewage treatment system and soil polishing filter, new site entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560032

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  construct dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20610

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 Rathnamanagh.

Recorded monuments

• LA013-004 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated on a low hill, site consists of an oval-shaped motte (max. summit diam. 10m max.; base diam. c. 21m; H c. 5.4m) in NE section of bailey (dims. 50m E-W x 90m N-S) and seperated from it by a wide shallow fosse (Wth c. 5.2m; D c. 1m). The bailey, which is probably the remains of an earlier ringfort (LA013-004002-) is defined by a low bank; intervening fosse (Wth c. 2.6m) with stone causeway (Wth c. 3m) and external bank (Wth c. 5.5m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.4m) except at N. The bailey, which is probably the remains of an earlier ringfort that was re-fortified and converted into a motte and Bailey by the Anglo-Normans. Reference to a fort with deep fosses and level interior here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 193). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA013-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 35m NW-SE). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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.

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.

No address of the register names Rathnamanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rathnamanagh · Ráth na Manach

Area

1,586,321 m² (158.63 ha, 391.99 acres)

Civil parish

Borris, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Borris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Borris electoral division: 1,797 people in 601 households; 58% of households own their home; 77% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Borris Great, Derrygarran, Knocknagroagh, Ratheven, Straboe

Placenames

Rathnamanagh 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.