Rath

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 1,966 m² to 527,258 m² (52.73 ha, 130.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 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.

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a five bay single slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank with adjoining feed passages, concrete yard/holding pen, cattle chute and dry bedded pens together with the proposed construction of a silage slab and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21302

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing two storey extension to the rear of the existing two storey dwelling house. Proposed construction of an extension to the rear of the existing two storey dwelling house which will comprise of a two storey and single storey element. Proposed construction of a detached garage for domestic purposes which will service the existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21259

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 Rath.

Recorded monuments

• LF027-010 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low hillock in pasture. Depicted as a very small circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Site of' on the 1883 revised ed. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Rath Lodge, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built or rebuilt c. 1880, having flat-roofed single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (south) and canted bay window at ground floor level to the west elevation. Modern flat-roofed two-storey extension to the rear. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered cornice and parapet to porch. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course; lined-and-ruled rendered finish to porch and canted bay. Blind recessed full-height (two-storey) round-headed arches to outer bays to front elevation (south. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed door opening to east face of porch having timber panelled door with plain overlight. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the east of Ballymahon and the southwest of Abbeyshrule. Complex of storey outbuildings to the northeast, comprising a seven-bay two-storey outbuilding (c. 1820) to the north and a six-bay single-storey outbuilding (c. 1880) to the east, having pitched natural slate roofs, random rubble stone walls (flush roughly dressed limestone quoins to some corners), square-headed door and window openings with timber louvered vents and battened timber doors, and segmental-headed carriage arches. Flush red brick block-and-start surrounds to openings. External rubble stone staircase to the west gable end of two-storey outbuilding, giving access to doorway at first floor level, having wrought-iron railings. Rubble stone wall attached to the east side of house having integral shallow segmental-headed pedestrian entrance with brick surround. Damaged gateway to the west of house comprising a simple cut limestone gate post (on octagonal-plan) having a wrought-iron gate. Cut limestone wheel guard adjacent to south gate post. Gate post and gate to the north side of gateway now removed. Coursed/snecked squared limestone rubble boundary walls to either side of gateway (north and south) having dressed limestone coping over.

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_1796 (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 Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Rath · An Ráth

Area

2,278,735 m² (227.87 ha, 563.09 acres)

Civil parish

Forgney, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Forgney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Forgney electoral division: 3,066 people in 189 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan, Clooneen, Clynan, Forgney, Kildordan, Moyvore (Co. Westmeath), Newcastle, Pallas Beg, Pallas More

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.