Ratharney

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratharney, from 167 m² to 232,684 m² (23.27 ha, 57.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ratharney 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.

• 16 May 2024Conditional

  proposed construction of two storey type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance & boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460099

• 18 May 2023N/a

  proposed construction of two storey type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance & boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360031

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  of 18/52 for the proposed construction of two storey house type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2379

• 31 Mar 2023Conditional

  the proposed demolition of existing two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling to provide way for the construction of a new two storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house, revised front porch to change door from side to front as per the submitted drawings & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360002

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling, detached garage, concrete blockwork wall to front with nap plaster finish, concrete post and rail fence to sides and rear, proprietary treatment system and percolation area as per submitted drawings and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21325

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the side (south-east facing elevation) of existing bungalow dwelling which will consist of dining room, living room and all associated ancillary site works as per submitted drawings

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21172

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  construction of a single storey type dwelling house with detached garage, boundary fence/wall, on site suitable sewerage system with polishing filter, redesign of existing vehicular entrance which services the applicants parents dwelling house to the immediate northwest of the proposed site so as to provide a combined dual entrance to service the existing dwelling house & the proposed dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20189

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a two storey type detached dwelling, proprietary treatment system, percolation area, connection to water main and all ancillary site works as indicated on submitted drawings

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20171

• 14 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the proposed construction of two storey house type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1852

• 22 Feb 2018Conditional

  proposed construction of two storey type dwelling, Detached Garage, proposed entrance and boundary wall/Fence, Wastewater Treatment System, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1835

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF023-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m) with an external fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.3m), which is identifiable only from N-NNE-NE. It is divided into roughly equal portions by a modern ENE-WSW field boundary, which also marks the boundary between the two townlands. Large portions at WNW and NW have been destroyed due to quarrying. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-102 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 80m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.7m; H 0.55m) from ESE-S-NW and elsewhere defined by a low scarp (H 0.8m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded traces of a wide external fosse and a possible outer bank but these are no longer visible. The original entrance is not evident. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-103001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On wet, low-lying ground adjacent to a fast-flowing stream. At the location indicated is a circular waterlogged depression (diam. 3.55m) defined by a series of boulders and some outcropping rock. Another well dedicated to St Columbkille (see LF023-103002-) lies c. 15m to the NW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF023-103002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Circa 15m to the SE of another well dedicated to St Columbkille (see LF 023-103001-). A modern wellhouse has been constructed over this natural spring. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF023-106 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On low-lying, marshy ground immediately N of the Inny River. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1987 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. 33m) was defined by a wide low earthen bank, set on a scarp, from N-NE-E. Only the scarp (max. H 0.25m) is visible. At its base is an infilled fosse (Wth 1.6m). A levelled outer bank (Wth 4.8m; H 0.35m) is evident from N–E–SE. The S half of the monument lies under drainage spoil from the adjacent river. The original entrance is not recognisable. Adjoining the rath at W is a smaller enclosure (LF023-106001-) that is possibly an annexe. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 February 2012

• LF023-106001 Enclosure
  Description

  Adjoining a rath (LF023-106----) at W. This enclosure is defined by a low scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.2m) from NW-N-ENE. It appears that it was originally semicircular or subrectangular in plan but its S part is occupied by a substantial bank of drainage spoil from the adjacent river, rendering interpretation difficult. The relationship between the it and the rath is unclear; it may be an annexe. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over small unnamed river or stream (tributary of the River Inny), built c. 1810. Rubble stone abutments, spandrel walls and parapet walls. Some concrete repairs to abutments and arch barrel. Rounded rendered coping over parapet walls, and stile with flight of cut limestone steps built into southeast parapet wall. Roughly dressed and squared voussoirs to round-headed arch; roughly dressed limestone masonry to arch barrel. Located adjacent to holy well on country road. Stile to southeast gives access to two adjacent holy wells (LF023-103001-; LF023-103002-), one of which is set in modern concrete enclosure/well house with flat concrete roof. Located along a small country road to the southwest of Legan and to the north of Abbeyshrule.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1890, with ''VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base (now illegible). Set into rendered pier adjacent to rural road junction. Located to the southwest of Legan and to the north of Abbeyshrule.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Vernacular field gate, erected c. 1875, comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan) having a wrought-iron flat-bar gate with horizontal bars and two diagonally-set support bars to the centre. Road-fronted to the southwest of Legan and the north of Abbeyshrule.

• Ratharney Christian Brethren Meeting House, hall, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey single-cell Christian Brethren meeting house, built 1910. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron-covered walls. Square-headed window openings with fixed-pane timber windows having lattice glazing bars. Timber boarded interior with exposed collared timber roof construction. Set in own grounds.

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_1820 (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.

• Ratharney, Abbeyshrule5 sales

Name

Ratharney · Ráth Airne

Area

1,306,876 m² (130.69 ha, 322.94 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyshrule, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Agharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Agharra electoral division: 480 people in 173 households; 85% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlewilder, Cloonbrin, Colehill, Drumanure, Killeenboy, Killinbore, Rathsallagh

Placenames

Ratharney 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.