# Rathmore, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Ráth Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 644,597 m² (64.46 ha, 159.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,252 m² (2.03 ha, 5 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Crossalare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 827 people lived in 241 households in the Crossalare electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39375 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171609 - Centre: latitude 54.026724, longitude -6.719998 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 73,921 m² (7.39 ha, 18.27 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 330094: 73,921 m² (7.39 ha, 18.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330094.md - Parcel 321061: 68,092 m² (6.81 ha, 16.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321061.md - Parcel 352393: 51,512 m² (5.15 ha, 12.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352393.md - Parcel 353962: 49,522 m² (4.95 ha, 12.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353962.md - Parcel 334935: 44,462 m² (4.45 ha, 10.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334935.md - Parcel 357106: 42,204 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357106.md - Parcel 340964: 40,678 m² (4.07 ha, 10.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340964.md - Parcel 353576: 36,064 m² (3.61 ha, 8.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353576.md - Parcel 315853: 31,453 m² (3.15 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315853.md - Parcel 334137: 21,693 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334137.md - Parcel 318852: 20,779 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318852.md - Parcel 352076: 20,252 m² (2.03 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352076.md - Parcel 321606: 17,164 m² (1.72 ha, 4.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321606.md - Parcel 320889: 10,765 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320889.md - Parcel 4898222: 9,966 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898222.md - Parcel 322130: 4,003 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322130.md - Parcel 320401: 3,967 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320401.md - Parcel 2560155: 3,900 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2560155.md - Parcel 3323007: 3,639 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3323007.md - Parcel 3323020: 3,280 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3323020.md - Parcel 5937893: 3,222 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5937893.md - Parcel 4950845: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950845.md - Parcel 336513: 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336513.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 1 Nov 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360259: Conditional. Permission. permission consisting of; the demolition of an existing bungalow and the construction of a four bedroomed bungalow, wastewater treatment system, boundary fencing, and all associated site works The height of the new dwelling is 6.95m. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360259/0 - 11 Jan 2023, Monaghan County Council 237: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct a free range broiler type poultry house. The proposal includes a new site entrance, vertical feed silo, dethatched storage shed & underground washings tank, together with other associated ancillary site works. The application includes a Site Specific Flood Risk Assessment, Natura Impact Statement & a Nutrient Management Assessment Significant Further information relates to, Natura Impact Statement, Site location Map, a Site Layout map, Proposed storage shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/237/0 - 7 Oct 2021, Monaghan County Council 21559: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Demolish existing dwelling and replace with a dormer dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21559/0 - 13 Mar 2017, Monaghan County Council 17111: N/a. Retention, 1 home. Permission for the development which will consist of an extension to side of dwelling previously granted under reference no 16/264 and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17111/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathmore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO028-064: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-064----. Situated on a col with valleys to the S and E and higher ground to the SE, and SW-N-NE. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m WNW-ESE; 31.2m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.5m) and hedge W-N-SSE, which is almost reduced to an external scarp (at SW: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 3m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.6m) E-SW, and there are entrances at SE (Wth 4.3m) and NW (Wth 4.7m), both of which appear to be modern. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017 - MO028-067: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-067----. Situated on the lower SE-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE spur. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curved field bank SW-N-E on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by traces of a low bank and fosse, with the bank incorporated into a curved field bank NNW-NE (Chord c. 25m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rathmore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathmore. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rathmore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rathmore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rathmore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corleck: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corleck-170455.md - Corlygorm: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlygorm.md - Lisnagunnion: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnagunnion.md - Monalia: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/monalia.md - Tullyvaragh Lower: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullyvaragh-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rathmore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/rathmore