Rathory
Townland in the civil parish of Tallanstown, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Ráth Óraí
- Area
- 93.1 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 3,066 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathory, from 21 m² to 99,527 m² (9.95 ha, 24.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathory 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for a new proposed storey and a half style dwelling and associated detached garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site, improvement works to the neighbouring vehicular entrance and the provision a new septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660476
25 Jan 2022Conditional
permission for a new domestic waste water treatment system to serve an existing dwelling house to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2249
27 Apr 2021Conditional
Retention permission and permission for development that will consist of 1) Retention of domestic garage located to the rear (north) of the site. 2). Permission for an attic conversion to existing dwelling including all associated site development works and services
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21473
1 Apr 2021N/a
Retention and Permission: 1. Retention of domestic garage located to the rear (north) of the site; 2. Permission for an attic conversion to existing dwelling including all associated site development works and services
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21357
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathory.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathory.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathory.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Rathory.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Rathory, Ardee10 sales
The townland
- Name
- Rathory · Ráth Óraí
- Area
- 930,874 m² (93.09 ha, 230.02 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, Cardistown, Cloghanmoyle, Knocklore, Reaghstown, Tattyboys
- Placenames
- Rathory 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.