Rathbody

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbody, from 799 m² to 257,418 m² (25.74 ha, 63.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Rathbody 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.

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  Retention and Permission: Retention of (A) a single storey extension to the rear of dwelling, (B) the demolition of a sunroom to the side of dwelling previously granted under PL Ref 05850, (C) to retain the replacement sunroom 'as constructed' to the side of dwelling (D) to retain all associated and ancillary site works. The Proposed Development will consist of (E) a surface water soakaway and associated siteworks

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560789

• 1 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retention of an agricultural shed and ancillary yard, an animal shelter, relocation of existing entrance and associated site development works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560419

• 24 Jun 2024Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 18/465 - Extension to an existing dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 24106

• 18 Jun 2018Conditional

  Extension to an existing dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18465

• 2 Aug 2017Conditional

  Permission to form a new vehicle entrance on to the public roads.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17585

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 Rathbody.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-082 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmarks defining oval area enclosed by two ditches (max. dims. c. 38m NW-SE, c. 22m SW-NE) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDS 72).

• LH011-150 Enclosure
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a fosse that is only visible N-E-S on OSI images (1995). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached aerial view from OSI (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 June 2020

• LH014-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on top of natural ridge. Sub-circular area (int. dims. 26m E-W, 19m N-S) enclosed by much-degraded earthen bank (Wth 4.5m, H 0.4m internally, 1.3m externally) now visible as scarped platform, except in W quadrant. Traces of fosse (Wth 4m, D 0.7m) and internal berm-like feature (Wth 5.5m) at base of platform. No visible trace of ancient entrance. Much of the W half of interior is taken up by a depression and banks of uncertain significance.

• LH014-002 Standing stone
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on slight rise in undulating countryside. Slab of shale, triangular in plan (max. dims. H 3m, 1.5m by 0.6m in section), orientated roughly NE-SW.

• LH014-090 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.C.41) shows cropmark of small circular enclosure defined by a fosse, with an outer irregular fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathbody.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathbody with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Rathbody · Ráth Bodaigh

Area

1,152,086 m² (115.21 ha, 284.69 acres)

Civil parish

Tallanstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Tallanstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tallanstown electoral division: 1,069 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arthurstown, Cavanrobert, Louth Hall, Rathneestin, Thomastown

Placenames

Rathbody 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.