Rath
Rath is a townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Ráth.
- Area
- 152.6 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,561 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 640 m² to 351,984 m² (35.2 ha, 86.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rath 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 May 2026Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house to include alterations to the front elevation of the existing house and installation of a new upgraded domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660571
21 Dec 2024Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461304
15 Sept 2024Conditional
the demolition of the ruins of a previous dwelling and outbuildings and, the construction of a part single storey, part one and half storey replacement dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460915
15 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211014
15 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211013
15 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211012
24 Jun 2020Conditional
a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20544
12 Jun 2019Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling, entrance, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19562
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI015-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in poorly drained pasture on a gentle slope down to the W towards the Mulkear river. Anothe rringfort (LI015-010----) is visible across the river to WNW. There are good views to N and S. The monument consists of a roughly circular area (33.2m N-S; 32.3m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.6m), with traces of an external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.1m) from NW to SE. There is a gap in the external bank at SE. The interior surface is uneven and slopes down to SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 2 July 2013
- LI015-012 Castle - unclassified
Description
Farmyard located on footprint of Rath Castle which is visible on OSi orthophotos and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of farmyard partially defined by a bawn wall (LI015-012001-) of Rath Castle (Salter 2004, 98). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 November 2021
- LI015-012001 Bawn
Description
Farmyard located on footprint of Rath Castle (LI015-012----) which is visible on OSi orthophotos and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of farmyard partially defined by fragment of the bawn wall of Rath Castle (Salter 2004, 98). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 November 2021
- LI015-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope in poorly drained undulating pasture with good views in all directions. The monument consists of a roughly circular area (17.7m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2m; H 0.6m), with an external fosse (Wth 4.6m) evident from W to E and from ESE to S. There are traces of an external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.1m) in the ESE and SE. There is a corn drying kiln built into the scarp in the W. The site is located within a potential deserted settlement. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 2 July 2013
- LI015-075 Field system
Description
Situated in a field of poorly-drained, gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Several relict linear earthen banks and some possible platforms are evident in the immediate vicinity of a rath (LI015-013----). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 29 October 2013
- LI015-076 Kiln - corn-drying
Description
Situated in the SW edge of ringfort (LI015-013----), on a gentle SW-facing slope in poorly-drained, undulating pasture with good views in all directions. The basal remains of a keyhole shaped kiln (L 4.05m E-W) with a flue (2.35m E-W; 0.95m N-S) to W and a bowl (1.7m E-W; 1.65m N-S) to E. It is constructed of limestone blocks of various sizes and lengths with longer stones used in the flue's construction. See attached photographs and sketch plan of feature identified and recorded by Elizabeth Connolly. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 June 2021
- LI015-097 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In grassland, ringfort (LI015-013----) 120m to NW. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 12m) defined by a ditch visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 23 November 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rath.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rath, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1172 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Rath, Murroe6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Rath · An Ráth
- Area
- 1,526,259 m² (152.63 ha, 377.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abington, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Electoral division
- Abington, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,367 people lived in 433 households in the Abington electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abington, Cappanouk, Dromeliagh, Knockanerry, Rathwood
- Placenames
- Rath 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.