Rathcline

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcline, from 37 m² to 660,531 m² (66.05 ha, 163.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rathcline 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.

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III application for a 10 Year Planning Permission with an operational lifespan of 40 years, for development in the townlands of, Commons North, Gorteengar, Tullyvrane, Knock, Lisrevagh, Rathcline, Lisnacush, Carrigeens, Carrowroe and Aghaloughan, County Longford. The grid connection route (subject to a separate future planning application to An Coimisiún Pleanála) will be in the townlands of Aghamore and Lanesborough. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. The planning application is subject to a completeness check under section 37JA of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended by the European Union (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025. The development consists of: a solar farm with a total area of circa 146.93 ha. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring circa 96.3ha. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 85 MW. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of: • Installation of approximately 49.1 ha (approximately 910,650 sqm solar PV panel arrays, to include approximately 491,270 sqm of ground-mounted panels supported by steel frame structures, and the remaining area as solar array row spacing. • Construction of 24 MV stations. • A 110 kV on-site substation (0.7 ha) and approximately 1.7 km of underground cabling to connect to the national grid (subject to a separate future planning application to An Coimisiún Pleanála). The grid connection route will be in the townlands of Aghamore and Lanesborough. • Installation of underground cabling and ducting, comprising approximately 3.13 km along the public roads R392, L1168, L5264 and L1164. • Provision of two temporary site compounds, welfare facilities and materials storage areas. • Provision of seven temporary laydown areas for materials storage and welfare units (portaloos). • Construction of approximately 8.9 km of internal access tracks throughout the site. • Erection of 19 no. pole mounted, inward facing CCTV cameras for site monitoring across the proposed development. • Construction and operational access via existing entrances on

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660261

• 9 Apr 2026Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single-storey dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660112

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  to erect a farm machinery storage shed and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2615

• 15 Jan 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of a single-storey dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite treatment system with polishing filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660007

• 30 Oct 2025Refused

  the proposed construction of a single-storey dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite treatment system with polishing filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560250

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  proposed renovations and change of use of existing outhouse building for use as a pet daycare and boarding facility and all associated site development works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560240

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the proposed change of use of an existing domestic garage into creche/playschool/montessori school together with the proposed construction of an extension to the original garage to service this proposed use, onsite car parking and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2284

• 8 Oct 2020Conditional

  of 2 No. storage shed type structures which are used for domestic purposes to service existing two storey house type dwelling house together with all seeking retention permission for existing front boundary plastered block wall and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 20227

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  to retain a domestic garage, along with connections to all ancillary site services and all other site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 18282

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  development consisting of the renovation of an existing dwelling house including partial demolition and construction of an extension (37m.sq. - gross floor area) at the sides/rear, first floor and alterations to the front elevation together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18154

• 10 Mar 2017Conditional

  for change of use, part of existing domestic garage that was previously granted planning permission under planning reference no. 08/640 to a health and beauty clinic circa 36 sq. m. together with alterations to elevations and associated signage

  Retention · Longford County Council, 1775

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• LF017-009001 Bawn
  Description

  This almost square-shaped bawn (int. dims. c. 57m E–W; c. 55m N–S) incorporates a tower house (LF017-009002-) within its E wall and a fortified house (LF017-009003-) in its NE angle. A late 17th-century manuscript plan (NLI, MS 8646 (6)) indicates that the tower house and the fortified house, with another building adjoining the latter to the W, occupied most of the N half of the interior of the bawn. The S half was divided into two roughly equal areas by a N-S running wall. A gateway in this wall was in line with gateways in the E and W walls of the bawn. Another gateway in the S wall was opposite the doorway of the fortified house. A long building, aligned E-W, was built against the internal face of the S wall, to the W of the S gateway and a smaller, narrow building, aligned N-S, was built against the internal face of the W wall, to the N of the W gateway – both of these building were probably outhouses associated with the house. Projecting angle towers, square-shaped in plan, are shown on the NE, SE, SW and NW corners. Access to the NE tower was by means of an external stairs that were built against the N gable of the E wing of the fortified house. Those at SE, SW and NW were accessed from stairs within the bawn. A formal walled garden (LF017-009008-), also with projecting angle towers, adjoined the E side of the bawn and to its E a fish-pond (LF017-009005-). Another trapezoidal-shaped walled area is shown to the S of the bawn and there is an orchard to its SE. A late 18th-century illustration of the fortified house and bawn by Daniel Grose (Stalley 1991, 76) indicates that the bawn walls were crenallated. The ruins of another house (LF017-009009-), built against the external face of the W wall, are shown to the S of the NW angle tower. The bawn, which is fairly well preserved, consists of a rubble-built curtain wall (average H c. 3.5m; T 0.95m). Remains of the gateway in the E wall and the gatehouses in the S and W walls, as well as the four square-shaped angle towers survive. The extant remains indicate that the bawn is of multi-period construction. It may be contemporary with the tower house but it may have been modified when Thomas Dutton built his fortified house in the early 17th century (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Chas I, 251) - as the lower courses of its N wall are keyed into the NW angle of the E wing of the house. Wall-footings running across the W gateway indicate that it was subsequently inserted into the original bawn wall, probably when the house was remodelled by Sir George Lane c. 1667 (Brown 1784, vol. 3, 227). It was modified again in the late 17th century/18th century when the crenellations shown on the N wall on Groses’s illustration (Stalley 1991, 76) were filled in when the wall was raised to the height of the string course on the first floor of the NW angle of the E wing of the fortified house. The outline of the crenellations is visible on the external wall face where ivy has fallen off the wall. Remains of a possible wall-walk are evident as an offset (H 1.7-2m; D 0.45-1.1m) on the internal face of this wall to the W of the E wing as far as a centrally located, modern gateway. A section of the W wall has collapsed to the N of the W gatehouse. To the S of this gatehouse a blocked-up embrasure (int. Wth 2.24m) is visible. The E gateway is located to the S of the tower house, only its wall-footings are now visible. It was replaced by the present gateway (Wth 2.8m), which is of 18th/19th century date. The S gatehouse (ext. dims. 6.2m E–W; 2.25m N–S) is located near the E end of the S bawn wall. It was two-storeys high and was the main entrance into the bawn in the late 17th century. It consists of a classical style cut-stone round-arched surround (Wth 2.63m; H 3.15m) with a scroll-shaped keystone supporting a moulded entablature flanked on either side by Doric columns, now missing, and decorated jambstones. An armorial plaque (LF017-009007-) bearing the Lane family coat of arms, formerly located above it, dated 1667, is now missing (SMR file). The first floor was accessed from the wall-walk. The gate-passage (L 2.5m; Wth 3.3m) projects into the bawn courtyard. A double row of corbels in the E wall of the passage indicate that it was covered by a stone vault. The first floor is inaccessible and overgrown with ivy. The W gatehouse (ext. dims. 6.2m N–S; 1.85m E–W; Wth of entrance 2.85m) is centrally located in the W wall and projects into the interior; the gate-passage (L 2.45m; Wth 3.55m; H 4.15m) is covered by a stone-vaulted arch. This entrance, which was partially blocked in the 18th or 19th century, consists of a cut-stone round-arched surround with moulded jambstones with a hood-moulding. Unusually the capital of this archway is decorated with dogtooth ornament carved in relief with cable moulding immediately below. This capital does not appear to sit comfortably within the archway; it may be reused from an earlier doorway or window of the tower house. Dogtooth moulding is typically used as a decorative motif in the 13th and 14th centuries (Yarwood 1985, 199), although the heavy nature of the carving of the motif would suggest a possible 15th-century date (pers. comm. Con Manning). The NE angle tower, which is three-storeys high, also functioned as the service tower of the fortified house and it was accessed through broken-out doorways in the NE angle of the E wing of the house, on the ground, first and second floors. On the ground floor narrow slit opes in the S and W walls provided flanking fire along the external face of the E and N walls of the bawn. However, that in the W wall subsequently became redundant when external wooden stairs were built against the N gable of the E wing in order to access a doorway in the NW angle of the tower at first-floor level. The stairs cut across this ope. All the floors were wooden and were carried in the thickness of the wall. The SE angle tower (int. dims. 3.3m E–W; 3.07m N–S; wall T 0.95m), two storeys high, was partially rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century when a two-storey house was built onto its E side. It is accessed through a doorway (Wth 1.15m), facing into the bawn, in its W wall that was also rebuilt in the 18th/19th century as indicated by the segmental arch of cut-stone voussoirs. When the house was built brick-lined fireplaces were inserted into its E wall. New larger windows, replacing the earlier slit opes, were inserted into the N and S walls at first-floor level. Originally the ground floor had two slit opes, possibly gun loops, set into square-headed embrasures (Wth 0.58m; H 0.45m) in the N, E and S walls, with one possible ope in the W wall. One of the slit opes in the E wall has been partially destroyed by the inserted brick fireplace while the ope in the S wall has been replaced by a larger window. The ope in the W wall is now blocked up. The hammer-dressed stone visible in the embrasures of the opening would appear to date from the 16th century, however, this stone may have been reused from an earlier building phase. Narrow vertical joist holes are visible in the N and S walls of the tower 1.9m high above the present ground level. At first-floor level there is a single-light window in the centre of the N wall and an inserted fireplace in the centre of the E wall that feeds a tall chimney stack rising above the walls of the tower. A possible wall niche or blocked-up ope is located to the S of this fireplace. A doorway in the centre of the W wall gives access to an external flight of stairs leading up from the interior of the bawn. These stairs are 18th or 19th century in date and replaced the earlier external stairs shown on the late 17th-century plan ((NLI, MS 8646 (6)). No visible trace of the two-storey house survives. Only the lower walls of the SW angle tower (ext. dims. c. 4.1m N–S; 3.9m E–W; wall T 0.8m) survive, while the NW angle tower (int. dims. 3.3m N-S; 2.95m E-W; wall T 0.9m) stands one-storey high. The W wall has collapsed and the interior

• LF017-009002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a slight rise in pasture overlooking an inlet of Lough Ree c. 320m to the NNW. Traditionally believed to be the residence of the O’Quinn family, who in the early medieval period were known as the ‘Lords of Rathcline’ (Farrell 1891, 329). By the 16th century it was in the hands of the O’Farrells (ibid., 31; Cal. S.P. Ire. 1509-73, 437). In 1627 it was granted to Sir Thomas Dutton (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Chas. 1, 251) who built a fortified house (LF017-009003-) against its N wall. During subsequent remodelling of this house by Sir George Lane c. 1667 (Brown 1784, vol. 3, 227), the tower house was incorporated into the fortified house and it forms part the E wall of the bawn (LF017-009001-). The latter may be contemporary with the tower house but it was subsequently modified. Only the E wall (T 2.2m) and a section of the S wall (ext. L c. 3.5m; wall T c. 3.5m), both standing three-storeys high, survive of this rectangular tower house (13.7m N-S; 8.3m E-W). The walls are constructed of random rubble limestone with alternating long and short punch-dressed quoin stones. A high pronounced base-batter (H c. 3.2m) is evident. It projects 0.8m beyond the wall-face. The external face of the E wall is ivy-clad making detailed examination impossible. However, the remains of a possible window are visible off-centre to the N on the ground floor. On the first floor a slit ope is evident near the NE angle and to its S, but at a higher level, there is a double garderobe exit chute, similar to that at Castlereagh (LF019-061001-). The internal face of this wall was refaced, possibly in the 17th century when the fortified house was added onto the N side. Joist-holes indicate that the floors were wooden throughout. On the ground floor, centrally located, there is a partially broken-out slit ope. To its N is the blocked-up ope that was noted externally. Large, centrally located, recessed embrasures on the first and second floors may be blocked-up windows. A blocked-up wall cupboard is also visible in the SE angle on the first floor. The dating and classification of this tower house are problematic as so few architectural features survive. The presence of the high and prominent base-batter, its rectangular ground plan and the reuse of a capital with dogtooth ornament in the W gatehouse of the bawn could suggest that it dates from the late 14th or early 15th century. It is possible that it is a transitional-style castle which displays features of both the hall-house type castle and the medieval tower house. According to Brewer (1826, vol. 2, 276), there formerly was a memorial stone (LF017-009006-) ‘fixed in the wall of one of the rooms.’ (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 491; ITA Survey 1944; Stalley 1991, 76-7) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 July 2012

• LF017-009003 House - fortified house
  Description

  Adjoining the N wall of a tower house (LF017-009002-) and occupying and forming the NE corner of a bawn (LF017-009001-). In 1627 the English Crown granted Sir Thomas Dutton 'the castle [LF017-009002], town, and lands of Rathcline … with a clause creating those lands into a manor, to be called the Manor of Rathclyne (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Chas I, 251). A house built by Dutton appears to have been remodelled c. 1667 by Sir George Lane who purchased the manor and lands of Rathcline in 1649 (Brown 1784, 227); an armorial plaque (LF017-009007-) commemorated this work. A late 17th-century manuscript plan (NLI, MS 8646 (6)) indicates that the house was approximately H-shaped in plan, consisting of a central block aligned E-W, with asymmetrical E and W wings aligned N-S. The E wing was in line with the central block. It extended off the N wall of the tower house and projected beyond the line of the N wall of the bawn. A square-shaped angle tower of the bawn projected off its NE angle. The W wing projected to the S and N of the central block but did not extent as far N as the bawn wall. Another building, aligned E-W, extended off its W wall. The house was accessed through a classical doorway in the centre of the S wall of the central block and a stairway at its E end accessed the E wing. A wooden stairs is depicted against the external face of the N gable of this wing. Two buildings that were probably outhouses associated with the house are shown; one, aligned E-W, was built against the S wall of the bawn, to the W of the S gateway. The other, aligned N-S, was against the W wall, to the N of the W gateway. A formal walled garden (LF017-009008-), also with projecting angle towers, is depicted immediately to the E of the bawn and to its E a fish-pond (LF017-009005-). Another walled area, roughly trapezoidal in plan, is shown immediately to the S of the bawn and to its SE an orchard. A household inventory dating to 1688 lists the various rooms, including ‘a Damask room, a dining-room, two drawing-rooms, My Lord’s dressing-room, parlour, parlour closet, Castle room and room adjoining, My Lady’s closet, Red room, room above Damask room, Madame Lane’s room and room adjoining, the Nurseries, the Lobby, butler’s garret, cook’s garret, and four other garrets’ (Cullen 1968, 56; NLI, MS 8646 (5)). Described in 1682 by Nicholas Dowdall as ‘a very noble and spacious house … being very pleasant and well Improved with Orchards, Gardens, Fishponds and a Deer Park [LF017-009004-]’ (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208) but by 1793 it had been ‘dismantled by Cromwell, and finally burnt and reduced to its present ruinous state, in the wars of King James (Anon. 1793, 405). Late 18th-century illustrations by Henry Brocas and Daniel Grose (Stalley 1991, 76) depict the house as a ruinous three-storey shell of a building with tall chimney stacks rising high above the walls. The building extending off the W wing is also ruined and was possibly just one storey high. Almost all of the walls of the house (int. dims. c. 12.9m N–S; 6.9m E–W) have been levelled but part of the E wing and the angle tower, which functioned as a service or bedroom tower of the house, and also served as the NE angle tower of the bawn, survive to a height of three storeys. The walls, which are rendered externally, are constructed of rubble limestone with alternating long and short quoins with drafted margins. String-courses, with concave moulding, on the N end of the W wall, the angle tower and the E wall of the E wing indicate the first- and second-floor levels. Two construction phases are evident - relating to the early and late 17th century – reflecting that the original house was subsequently remodelled and refurbished. The N end of the W wall (L 0.8m), the N gable (ext. L 7.86m; T 1.05m) and the E wall (ext. L 11m) of the E wing survive. The N gable projects 1.3m beyond the N wall of the bawn and the angle tower projects 0.8m to the E of the house. No windows are visible externally at ground-floor level but a blocked-up doorway (Wth 1.9m), located off-centre to the S, in the E wall cuts across the embrasure of a possible window and appears to have damaged the string course, which is partially missing, indicating that it was inserted when the house was remodelled in the late 17th century. This doorway accessed the formal gardens. The N splay of a destroyed window is visible on the first and second floors of the W wall. A twin-light window with a hood-moulding of early 17th century date is visible at the W end of the N gable on the first floor and one broken out window is evident above it on the second floor. The string courses are not visible on this wall as an external stairs, as depicted on the late 17th century plan (NLI, MS 8646 (6)), was built against it. A horizontal line of three beam holes indicates where it was keyed into the wall. It accessed a first-floor doorway in the W face of the angle tower. Two putlog holes are visible at first-floor level in the E wall, one of which has an original timber beam in situ. The windows in this wall reflect the two phases of construction: a fine cut-stone, early 17th century, transom and mullion window is centrally located on the first floor. Its hood-moulding projects slightly above the string course and forms part of it. The taller blocked-up vertical window openings to its N and S were inserted in the late 17th century. They may have accommodated wooden sash windows. The lower halves of two broken-out windows are visible on the second floor. Internally a broken-out fireplace is visible off-centre to the W of the N gable at ground-floor level. There is a possible wall oven to its W and a wall cupboard to its E. At first-floor level are the remains of an impressive, cut-stone, square-headed, centrally located fireplace. Another broken-out fireplace with evidence of red brick infill is visible on the second floor. A row of joist holes (H 3.8m) indicate the first floor level. Broken-out doorways on the three floor levels in the NE angle of this wing accessed the angle tower. All the walls of the angle tower (int. dims. 3.05m; 2.97m; wall T 0.9–1.15m) survive but there is a large central breach in its E wall. Slit opes in the W and S walls, at ground-floor level, probably functioned as a gun loops providing flanking fire along the N gable and E wall of the house. They date to the early 17th century and the example in the W wall was made redundant when the wooden stairs was built up against N gable of the E wing. The doorway that accessed the stairs is visible in the NW angle of the tower at first-floor level. No opes are evident in the N wall, which is rendered. The central breach in the E wall is on the line of broken-out windows. Partially destroyed and broken-out fireplaces are visible in the W wall at first- and second-floor levels. They appear to have been inserted when the house was refurbished, perhaps to facilitate bedroom accommodation. All the floors were wooden and were carried in the thickness of the wall. A deer park (LF017-009004-) is associated. (Loeber 1981, 51, 77, 113) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 July 2012

• LF017-009005 Fish-pond
  Description

  On the edge of wet poorly drained floodplains of Lough Ree, c. 60m to the E of the fortified house (LF017-009003-) and bawn (LF017-009001-). This fish-pond was developed c. 1667 by Sir George Lane when the grounds surrounding the fortified house were being landscaped. A late 17th-century manuscript plan (NLI, MS 8646 (6)) shows the fish-pond to the E of and adjoining the walled garden (LF017-009008-) of the house. Described by Nicholas Dowdall in 1682, when noting improvements on the estate, as 'being very pleasant and well Improved with Orchards, Gardens [LF017-009008-], Fishponds and a Deer Park [LF017-009004-]' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). On the late 17th-century plan (NLI, MS 8646 (6)) the fish-pond is depicted as a wide, water-filled moat enclosing a rectangular, tree-planted platform. Two triangular indentations are shown on both the E and W sides of the platform with single examples on the N and S ends. They appear to have formed ponds into which the fish could be trapped and caught. Access to the fish-pond was gained from the house via a gateway in the E wall of the formal garden. The gateway led to a small wooden bridge that crossed the moat on the W side. Water from Lough Ree, located c. 300m to the NW, was diverted into the NW angle of the moat through a deep channel (L c. 450m), which ran past the N side of the fortified house. This channel appears to predate the work undertaken by Sir George Lane (Casey and Rowan 1993, 373) as it is indicated on the late 17th-century plan (ibid.) as 'The ould Trinche' and measured '30 ft. [c. 9.1m] broad and six ft. [c. 1.8m] deepe'. A second channel (L c. 350m) ran from the lake into the NE angle of the moat, it may have been the overflow channel, which would have taken the excess water away from the pond bringing it back to the lake. This water channel is labelled as 'the Trinches intended' and originally measured '20 ft. [c. 6m] broade & six [c. 8m] deepe' with a top width of '20 ft.' [c. 6m] and a bottom width of 14 ft. [c. 4.26m]' (ibid.). The surviving remains of the fish-pond closely match its representation on the 17th-century plan (ibid.). It consists of a rectangular platform of dry ground (dims. 64m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m), which is enclosed by a waterlogged moat (top Wth 9m; base Wth 3m; ext. D 1.3-2m), except on the S side where the moat has been filled in. It is fed by a water-filled channel at the NW angle and the second water-filled channel is also visible at the NE angle. The channel at the NW angle runs W, past the N wall of the bawn, into a wooded area from which it then runs NW to Lough Ree. The channel on the NE side runs roughly NNW to the lake. Two semicircular marshy indentations or ponds (L 18m; Wth c. 1.5m), which project into the platform, survive on the E and W sides of the moat. These indentations are not evident on the N and S sides and there are no visible surface traces of the wooden bridge. The wall footings of a circular tower are located in the area where the gateway is indicated on the 17th-century plan (ibid.). A stone-lined causewayed culvert has been built across the moat at the SW angle. This modern crossing provides access from the interior of the fish-pond to the adjoining field to the W and was probably built in the 18th or 19th century. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 July 2012

• LF017-009008 Designed landscape - formal garden
  Description

  Immediately to the E of the associated fortified house (LF017-009003-) and bawn (LF017-009001-). In 1682 Nicholas Dowdall described the house as 'being very pleasant and well Improved with Orchards, Gardens, Fishponds [LF017-009005-] and a Deer Park [LF017-09004-]' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). The formal garden, rectangular in plan, is depicted on a late 17th-century manuscript plan (NLI, MS 8646 (6)) of the house and its landscaped surroundings as being enclosed by walls that extended off the NE and SE square angle towers of the bawn. Two more similar towers are shown on its NE and SE corners and a projecting gateway, described as a 'redoubt' on the plan, was located in the centre of its E wall. This gateway led to a wooden bridge, which accessed the fish-pond (LF017-009005-) immediately to the E of the garden. Access to the garden was gained through a gateway in the E wall of the bawn and a doorway that was subsequently inserted into the E wall of the fortified house in the late 17th century. Internally a pathway ran around the perimeter of the garden and two intersecting pathways divided it into four quadrants. Another roughly trapezoidal walled area is depicted on the plan (ibid.) adjacent to the S wall of the bawn. Its walls extended off the S face of the SE angle tower of the walled garden and off the S face of the SW angle tower of the bawn. Access to this area was through gateways at the N end of its E wall and W walls. A walled orchard is depicted to the SE of this walled area. Three gateways in its NW wall accessed three long avenues running through it. It was planted with trees in regular rows running from NW to SE. The walls of the garden have been levelled. However, a linear scarp (H 0.4m) marks the line of the N wall and elsewhere its outline is indicated by barely visible earthworks (approx. dims. c. 69m E-W; c. 59m N-S). The internal walk-way through the garden, which is cruciform in plan, is visible on aerial photographs dating from 2010 (Google Maps). The wall footings of the NE angle tower (ext. dims. c. 4.5m N-S; c. 4.5m E-W) survive but there is no visible surface trace of the SE angle tower. These towers may have been built as flanking towers for defensive purposes or alternatively they may have functioned as ornamental towers associated with the landscaping of the gardens. The wall-footings of a circular tower (ext. diam. 5m) mark the location of the gateway. No visible surface trace of the walled area and its associated gateways to the S of the bawn or the walled orchard survive. (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 July 2012

• LF017-009009 House - 17th century
  Description

  Built against the external face of the W wall of the bawn (LF017-009001-) associated with the fortified house (LF017-009003-)in Rathcline. An 18th-century illustration of the house and bawn by Daniel Grose depicts the ruins of a steeply pitched, single-pile, gable-ended house to the S of the NW angle tower of the bawn (Stalley 1991, 76). The house may be of late 17th-century date. No visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 July 2012

• LF017-010 Enclosure
  Description

  On the NE slope of a hill in pasture. Depicted as a small subrectangular field on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a irregular enclosure planted with trees on the 1914 edition. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 February 2012

• LF017-033 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland. Faint cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 31m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 01/03/2010 and Lidar image Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 11 July 2022

Architectural heritage

• Rathcline House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over-basement house on T-shaped plan, built c. 1820, having projecting end bay to the west end of the front elevation (north), with canted single-storey bay window to front, and two-storey over basement return to the rear (south) at the west corner. Single-bay two-storey block to rear at re-entrant corner of return and single-storey over basement flat-roofed return (c. 1956) to south end of rear return. Possibly originally built as a hunting/fishing lodge. Later in use as a convent (Sisters of Mercy), c. 1956 to c. 1970, and now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and having two rendered chimneystacks with diagonal tops/chimney pots with cut stone coping. Sprocketed, hipped copper roof to canted bay window. Painted roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone string course between basement and ground floors. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows and having limestone label mouldings over and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening adjacent to advanced end bay having glazed timber double doors with overlight. Flight of limestone steps to entrance flanked by cast-iron railings set on cut limestone plinth walls. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the south of Lanesborough, close to the northwest shores of Lough Ree. House located on an elevated site. Multiple-bay two–storey outbuilding to the rear having pitched corrugated-metal roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and projecting eaves course. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted limestone sills, some with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings, some with timber battened doors and half-doors. Square-headed carriage arch to the east end of the main elevation (north) having timber battened double doors. Yard entered to the southeast of house through gateway comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) with cut stone caps and having wrought-iron gates. Gateway to east comprising a pair of painted roughcast rendered piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron double gates. Main entrance gates to the north comprising a pair of rusticated (V-profile) ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered plinths and stepped capstones, and with decorative cast-iron gates. Round-headed wrought-iron arch over gateway, linking piers, having wrought-iron detailing and a wrought-iron cross finial to head. Rubble stone boundary walls on quadrant plan to either side of gateway (east and west), rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Rathcline, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Rathcline with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Rathcline · Ráth Claon

Area

4,587,881 m² (458.79 ha, 1,133.69 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcline, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Rathcline, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,700 people lived in 675 households in the Rathcline electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bleanavoher, Carrowroe, Commons North, Curreen, Glebe, Gorteengar, Killinure, Lisduff, Lisrevagh, Tullyvrane

Placenames

Rathcline 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.