Rathwood
Rathwood is a townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Coill na Rátha.
- Area
- 113.5 ha
- 281 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 18,680 m² (1.87 ha, 4.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathwood, from 462 m² to 233,025 m² (23.3 ha, 57.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Rathwood 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
19 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660174
17 Sept 2025Refused
a new single storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25311
28 Aug 2025Refused
an extension to existing childcare facilities, with the construction of a two storey training staff accommodation annex (Area=175m2) to include for 6 No. En-suite bedrooms with kitchen/living accommodation with new on-site wastewater treatment system for the entire facility, with amendments to carparking arrangement, associated access and boundaries with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560856
18 Sept 2024Refused
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460925
2 Sept 2024Conditional
a new single storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24338
21 May 2024N/a
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works at Rathwood, Murroe, Co. Limerick.
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460478
1 Feb 2023Conditional
for the change of house type under previously permitted governing planning permission reference number 21-1456 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360040
18 Oct 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211457
18 Oct 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211456
8 Oct 2020Conditional
the construction of a garage with all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201006
28 Aug 2020N/a
the construction of a garage with all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20836
25 May 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, entrance, sewerage treatment system, access roadway and all ancillary works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20415
21 Jun 2019Conditional
construction of a domestic garage and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19599
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathwood.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathwood.
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 Rathwood, 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_1173 (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
No address of the register names Rathwood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Rathwood · Coill na Rátha
- Area
- 1,135,263 m² (113.53 ha, 280.53 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
- Cappanouk, Dromeliagh, Eyon, Rath
- Placenames
- Rathwood 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.