Rathconny
Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Ráth Chonnaidh
- Area
- 137.4 ha
- 339 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 11,597 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathconny, from 34 m² to 129,705 m² (12.97 ha, 32.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 97 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Nov 2024Conditional
retention permission for domestic shed and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460922
21 Oct 2024N/a
retention permission for domestic shed and all ancillary site works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2460870
25 May 2022Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance, upgrade existing agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22680
14 Apr 2022Conditional
construction of a two storey style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance from public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22495
24 Sept 2021Refused
construction of a two storey style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance from public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211873
12 Jun 2020Conditional
the construction of a two storey residence, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200735
25 May 2020N/a
the construction of a two storey residence, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200648
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 Rathconny.
Recorded monuments
- ME030-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located in a level landscape on the N bank of a canalised W-E stream. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 24.5m NNW-SSE; 23.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at WNW: Wth of base 10m; Wth of top 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) SW-NW and an outer fosse (at ESE: Wth of top 5.6m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.4m; at WNW: Wth of base 7.2m; Wth of top 2m; ext. D 0.2m) that is truncated by the stream SSE-SW. The original entrance is not identified. Outside the fosse at WNW is a possible house site (int. dims c. 3m NE-SW; c. 2m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; H 0.2m) but no entrance is visible. 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: 17 April 2019
- ME030-003001 House - indeterminate date
Description
Located just outside the fosse of rath (ME030-003----) at WNW. A rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims c. 3m NE-SW; c. 2m NW-SE) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; H 0.2m) but no entrance is visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 April, 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathconny.
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 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 Rathconny.
- 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
No address of the register names Rathconny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Rathconny · Ráth Chonnaidh
- Area
- 1,373,511 m² (137.35 ha, 339.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Rathmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmore electoral division: 1,095 people in 346 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Rathconny 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.