Rathiddy

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathiddy, from 110 m² to 208,919 m² (20.89 ha, 51.62 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 Rathiddy 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission to provide community playing fields with associated facilities. This will include the construction of 1. a new entrance from public road, non-illuminated signage and front boundary treatment and planting, 2. extension of footpath from village to proposed development, 3. 2 No. GAA spec playing fields, 4. A detached single storey clubrooms to provide dressing rooms, kit rooms, kitchen, meeting room/ office, storage rooms, toilets, plant room and referees room and PV solar array atop south facing roof slope, 5. a new detached single storey machinery shed, 6. An access walkway with associated 6m high lighting, 7. 4 No. 15m high ball stops nets to playing fields, 8. 9 No. 18m high floodlighting to playing fields, 9.vehicular parking areas, 10. 3 No. 6m high flagpoles, 11. effluent treatment system with percolation area and 12. New landscaping and all Associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660349

• 11 Mar 2026N/a

  Permission for a new agricultural shed to rear of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660124

• 25 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission for a replacement dwelling, a garage, the installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19221

• 17 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission for development that consists of the following: 1. Extension to existing hay storage shed, 2. Covering of existing silage pit and change of use to new calf shed, 3. Roof over existing slatted tank and 4. New surface water tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17548

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 Rathiddy.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-020 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a gently undulating countryside. The stone (dims of base 1m x 0.4m; H 2.9m) is orientated E-W and leaning slightly to the S. The monument is known as 'Cloch an Fhir Mhóir' – the stone of the big man - and is traditionally associated with the death of Cúchulainn (Gogan 1953). Gosling (2018) points out that there was a possible stone circle (LH011-020001-) c. 40m to the SE and that the stone is c. 70m W of a meandering roadway which is probably older than the mid-eighteenth century that can be traced through maps at least 600m to the N and at least 1.2km to the SW. This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 474 See the attaché view from N The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH011-020001 Stone circle
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope. Issac Butler, writing in 1744 (Deane 1922, 99), noted ‘an arch (arc) of stones 7 paces (c. 5.25m) in diameter’ about 40 yards (c. 36m) to the SE of the standing stone (LH011-020----). The stones are described by Butler as being almost covered with grass but ‘pitched on end’, by which he meant upright. There is no evidence of such a feature now but it could have been a small stone circle like a kerb-circle. However, it is not extant and its precise location cannot be provided. (Gosling 2018, 175) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 17 January 2020

• LH011-022001 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 Cropmark ring defining sub-circular area (max. dims. c. 42m N-S, c. 39m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDG 92). Souterrain (LH011-022002-) in interior of site.

• LH011-022002 Souterrain
  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 within enclosure (LH011-022001-) showing as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDG 92). Drystone-built souterrain, of complex type, consisting of four passages. Passage 1 (L 2.7m, Wth 1m, H 1m) extends W-E and is blocked at W end by collapse from the modern entrance. A drop-hole at E end gives access to Passage 2 (L 8.2m, Wth 1m, H 0.8m) extending W-E at a lower level. At E end of this passage an air-vent extends N. A drop-hole at this point gives access to Passage 3 which extends NW-SE (L 3.2m) then N-S (L 7.2m). A rock ledge in mid-passage forms a natural drop-hole or step which divides the passage in two. At the S end of Passage 3 is a recess (L 0.6m, Wth 0.6m, H 0.5m). A creep in the W wall at the S end of the passage gives access to Passage 4 (L 9m, Wth 1m, H 0.9m) which extends E-W for 3m; a drop hole gives access to the remainder of the passage at an upper level. At the W end the passage is blocked by collapse. (CLAJ 1962, 125-30)

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Rathiddy.

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

Name

Rathiddy · Ráth Aidí

Area

742,952 m² (74.3 ha, 183.59 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinclare, Ballinlough, Dunbin Big, Dunbin Little, Knockatavy, Knockattin, Tates and Carrans Park

Placenames

Rathiddy 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.