Rathmore

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 74 m² to 540,164 m² (54.02 ha, 133.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Rathmore 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house, new waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25166

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of (1) proposed new slatted cattle shed (57.6m x 15.21m x 8.5m High) with a lean to canopy and an underground slurry tank, as extension to existing slatted shed buildings, and (2) proposed extension to existing machinery shed at existing farm complex comprising a steel portal frame 16.75m by 27.5m by 7.5m high and all associated works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 21124

• 26 Oct 2018N/a

  The development will consist of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system/percolation area and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18866

• 23 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission for development will consist of a proposed cattle shed with underground slatted effluent storage tanks, cattle handling facility and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 1848

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 Rathmore.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-017001 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 From a preliminary field visit in 1965 it was noted that this was a circular area enclosed by two banks with wide, deep intervening fosse. Entrance gap in outer bank at NW. Possible souterrain (LH006-017002-) in interior. Levelled in 1966, prior to detailed survey.

• LH006-017002 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 Local tradition of a 'cave' in ringfort (LH006-017001-). (CLAJ 1934, 354)

• LH006-018001 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 Shown on current OS 1:2500 sheet as circular platform (max. diam. c. 28m), with roughly the N half enclosed by oval bank. Destroyed in 1964. Possible souterrain (LH006-018002-) in interior.

• LH006-018002 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 Local tradition of a 'cave' in enclosure (LH006-018001-).

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2961 (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.

• Rathmore, Kilkerley5 sales

Name

Rathmore · An Ráth Mór

Area

1,298,138 m² (129.81 ha, 320.78 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Dundalk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barronstown electoral division: 752 people in 255 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balrobin, Deerpark, Milltown, Newtownbalregan, Philipstown, Plaster, Tankardsrock

Placenames

Rathmore 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.