# Rathlust, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kildemock, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish An Ráth Loiscthe.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,036,693 m² (103.67 ha, 256.17 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kildemock, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/kildemock.md
- Barony: Ardee
- Electoral division: Ardee Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33471
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140560
- Centre: latitude 53.818049, longitude -6.537734 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathlust, from 234 m² to 1,011,260 m² (101.13 ha, 249.89 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1132150: 1,011,260 m² (101.13 ha, 249.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132150.md
- Parcel 1134271: 5,103 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134271.md
- Parcel 1132421: 4,059 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132421.md
- Parcel 1114978: 2,874 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1114978.md
- Parcel 1119265: 2,691 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119265.md
- Parcel 5269839: 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5269839.md
- Parcel 1126236: 1,882 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126236.md
- Parcel 1123309: 1,291 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123309.md
- Parcel 1121208: 1,047 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121208.md
- Parcel 1103309: 889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103309.md
- Parcel 1131965: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131965.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rathlust in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 11 Oct 2024, Louth County Council 2460612: N/a. Permission. Permission for development on lands at Rathlust, Smarmore. The proposed development will consist of: (i) Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) The proposed works will be subject to a waste facility permit/certificate of Registration and/or notification under Article 27 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011, as amended (iii) All associated works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460612/0
- 3 Oct 2024, Louth County Council 2460589: N/a. Permission. Permission for development on lands at Rathlust, Smarmore. The proposed development will consist of: (i) Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) The proposed works will be subject to a waste facility permit/certificate of Registration and/or notification under Article 27 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011, as amended (iii) All associated works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460589/0
- 25 Apr 2024, Louth County Council 2460226: Conditional. Permission. Permission for the construction of three warehouse units and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460226/0
- 21 Dec 2023, Louth County Council 2360551: N/a. Permission. Permission for (i) works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) all associated works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360551/0
- 7 Dec 2020, Louth County Council 201059: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for a rear extension, elevational changes including roof changes, partial demolition and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/201059/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathlust.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LH017-050001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH017-050001-. 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 According to MacIvor (CLAJ 1949, 32) there was a medieval parish church here, but at the time of writing there was little physical evidence of the structure other than some of the building stones which were incorporated in a wall forming a rough circle around the site. Davies (CLAJ 1943, 207) says that it was situated on a small hill within a graveyard which was circular. The field incorporating the site is known as 'Chapel field' (CLAJ 1944, 330). No visible surface trace. See LH017-048---- for the possible location of some of the stones of the church.
- LH017-050002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH017-050002-. Davies (CLAJ 1943, 207) noted that 'Kilpatrick Church' (LH017-050001-) was situated on a small hill within a graveyard which was circular. In June 1947, a number of bones and few large slabs were exposed by the landowner (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2 496). No remains are visible of the church apart from some possible architectural fragments (LH017-048----). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 6 July 2012
- LH017-051: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH017-051----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- LH017-069: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH017-069----. 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 summit of shelf at E end of a ridge. Ploughed-down ring-barrow (overall diam. 25.3m), consisting of interior (diam. 8.5m) enclosed by fosse (Wth 4m) and external bank (Wth 4.9m, H 0.1m). Referred to by Stubbs (CLAJ 1911, 354) as a small 'rath'. (OS Memorandum 6353 B).

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_2893, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2893.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/rathlust.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/rathlust.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/rathlust.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rathlust with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Anaglog: https://everytownland.com/louth/anaglog.md
- Belpatrick: https://everytownland.com/louth/belpatrick.md
- Hunterstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/hunterstown.md
- Kilpatrick: https://everytownland.com/louth/kilpatrick.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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