Rathgoonan

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathgoonan, from 274 m² to 247,551 m² (24.76 ha, 61.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Rathgoonan 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 Rathgoonan 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 Rathgoonan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathgoonan.

Architectural heritage

• Rathgoonan House, country house, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey former country house, dated 1873, now in use as clubhouse. Comprising three-bay two-storey main block with single-bay two-storey block and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed porch to west elevation. Square-plan projecting bay to east elevation. Half-hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge crestings, cast-iron rainwater goods, rooflights, cut limestone chimneystacks, eaves course and eaves supports. Timber bargeboards to gables. Hipped slate roof to east bay. Rusticated cut limestone walls having cut limestone plinth course and stringcourse dividing stories. Inscribed date plaque to plinth course, west elevation. Rendered walls to north elevation. Segmental-headed openings to ground floor with tooled limestone sills, cut limestone voussoirs and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to north and south elevations, ground floor of projecting bay, having tooled limestone sills, cut limestone voussoirs and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to first floor with tooled limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Half-dormer window to west elevation and paired half-dormer windows to east elevation. Square-headed opening to first floor of east-facing block having tooled limestone sill and timber framed window. Segmental-arched opening to south elevation of porch with cut limestone voussoirs, timber panelled door having sidelights and spoked fanlight. Limestone step to entrance. Segmental-arched opening to south elevation with cut limestone voussoirs and half-glazed timber panelled fitting. T-plan former coach house to north (rear) of house, attached by recent extension. Pitched slate roof having timber bargeboards, cast-iron rainwater goods, rooflights and timber vent. Roughly dressed stone walls to south and west elevations, rendered walls to north and east elevations. Segmental-arched opening to south elevation with cut limestone voussoirs and surround, and glazed timber door. Square-headed opening to gable, east elevation, having glazed uPVC door. Timber staircase to entrance. Half-dormer window having square-headed opening and replacement uPVC window to south elevation. Square-headed openings to north and west elevations with replacement uPVC windows. Detached rubble stone building to south-west of main house, formerly part of the original Rathgoonan House complex, with rubble stone chimneystack and replacement corrugated-iron roof. Round-headed opening to north elevation, having carved limestone surround with chevron motif supported by columns. Opening blocked up. Oculus to west elevation having tooled limestone surround with chevron motif. Square-headed openings to north and east elevations. Recent rectangular-plan single-storey extension to east elevation. Detached three-bay one-and-half storey lodge to west of house having pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and timber eaves course. Roughly dressed limestone walls having dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed opening to west elevation with timber panelled door. Square-headed openings having timber framed windows. Pair of square-profile cut stone piers to entrance to south of complex.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, c.1900. Remounted, 1994. Road fronted on replacement rubble limestone-clad mass concrete base.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathgoonan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rathgoonan · Ráth Ó gCuanáin

Area

271,507 m² (27.15 ha, 67.09 acres)

Civil parish

Clonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Kilscannell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilscannell electoral division: 612 people in 185 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyegny Beg, Ballyegny More, Cahermoyle, Dromturk, Lisgordan, Rathreagh Beg, Rathreagh More

Placenames

Rathgoonan 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.