Rasillagh

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rasillagh, from 716 m² to 121,256 m² (12.13 ha, 29.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct 1no. bungalow, garage, septic tank and percolation area and new entrance onto road and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA180894

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Naneagh 001814

Recorded monuments

• ME014-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. This is a subcircular grass-covered but undulating area (dims 42m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 2m; H 1.1m) with bushes incorporated into a field bank and hedge SSE-W-N. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 21 November 2018

• ME014-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on slight rise which is on an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a slightly domed (H 0.4-0.5m) but overgrown area (diam. 22.5m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 5-5.5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m), with slight traces of an external fosse E-SSW. There are gaps in the perimeter at N, ENE and SE. It could be a ring-barrow. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 21 November 2018

• ME014-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. This is a circular, slightly domed but overgrown area (diam. 28m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6.5-7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m. There is no visible fosse, but there is an entrance (Wth of base 2.3m) at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 21 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rasillagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rasillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Rasillagh

Area

978,305 m² (97.83 ha, 241.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Killeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

420 people lived in 152 households in the Killeagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacad, Hammondstown and Tonaghmore (Co. Westmeath), Rathmea, Tonashammer (Co. Westmeath), Tubbrid

Placenames

Rasillagh 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.