Rarutagh

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rarutagh, from 126 m² to 60,901 m² (6.09 ha, 15.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Rarutagh 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.

• 23 May 2019Refused

  permission for the removal of a temporary classroom and construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing school. The proposed extension measuring 402.5smq will accommodate 2 number ASD classrooms, a general classroom, stores, toilets and all associated site work. Significant further information relates to the submission of a flood risk assessment, the decommissioning of the existing treatment plant and installation of a new treatment plant with associated percolation bed.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19238

• 24 Aug 2017Conditional

  the retention of the relocated dwelling & garage (in variance to that approved under planning reference 99/814 & 03/758

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17403

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  permission to erect a free-standing pre-fabricated building at existing crèche to facilitate additional numbers in childcare and connect to existing sewerage filter unit

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17169

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 Rarutagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rarutagh.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge, built c.1800, carrying road over unnamed stream. Segmental arches with roughly-squared limestone voussoirs and gunnelled soffits. Squared limestone V-shaped cutwaters to each elevation. Coursed rubble limestone to spandrel and parapet walls.

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 20 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 Rarutagh.

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.

No address of the register names Rarutagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Rarutagh · Ráth Ruatach

Area

479,563 m² (47.96 ha, 118.5 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Anketell Grove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumconnelly, Edenmore, Inishdevlin, Tonycoogan, Tonyfinnigan

Placenames

Rarutagh 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.