Rath More

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath More, from 65 m² to 354,000 m² (35.4 ha, 87.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Rath More 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, A BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 25128

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  full planning permission to construct a new dwelling with a new entrance, a new garage, a new well and a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated suite works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560337

• 18 Mar 2024Conditional

  the extension of an existing single story dwelling consisting of the construction of a two-storey extension to the south, adjustments to existing window to the west and all internal modifications, creation of new entrance, a proposed new septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460083

• 11 Mar 2024N/a

  Extension of an existing single story dwelling consisting of the construction of a two-storey extension to the south, adjustments to existing window to the west and all internal modifications, creation of new entrance, a proposed new septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460073

• 14 Nov 2023Conditional

  change of use of existing shed to dog kennels and Permission to build an extension to existing shed for use as dog kennels including all associated site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2360188

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE & ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18323

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 Rath More.

Recorded monuments

• OF038-016001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on top of high ground in upland area. Circular tower (diam 9.2m; wall T 1.7m) four storeys high built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter evident. The E side of the tower is destroyed, with evidence of wooden floors carried on stone corbels with punch dressing and drafted margins. There are two gun loops at ground floor with a mural passage leading to a garderobe in the SW angle at first floor level. The top two storeys are covered in ivy making examination difficult. Evidence of two fireplaces at SW and NW faces with two surviving tall rectangular shaped chimney stacks protruding from the top of the tower. The top two floors have a square interior plan with a circular exterior plan unlike the bottom two floors which are circular both inside and outside. There is evidence of a bawn wall attached to SW side of tower which returns NE where it is defined by grass covered rubble and would have returned onto the NE side of the tower. Overall the bawn (OF038-016002-) would have measured approximately 29.6m N-S by 24m E-W. Later 19th century demesne walls can be seen to the N with a 19th-century house built to the SE directly on line with the original bawn wall. O' Carroll castle (Cooke 1875, 186). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF038-016002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on top of high ground in upland area. Circular tower (OF038-016001-) four storeys high built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter evident. The E side of the tower is destroyed, with evidence of wooden floors carried on stone corbels with punch dressing and drafted margins. There are two gun loops at ground floor with a mural passage leading to a garderobe in the SW angle at first floor level. The top two storeys are covered in ivy making examination difficult. Evidence of two fireplaces at SW and NW faces with two surviving tall rectangular shaped chimney stacks protruding from the top of the tower. The top two floors have a square interior plan with a circular exterior plan unlike the bottom two floors which are circular both inside and outside. There is evidence of a bawn wall attached to SW side of tower which returns NE where it is defined by grass covered rubble and would have returned onto the NE side of the tower. Overall the bawn would have measured approximately 29.6m N-S by 24m E-W. Later 19th century demesne walls can be seen to the N with a 19th-century house built to the SE directly on line with the original bawn wall. O' Carroll castle (Cooke 1875, 186). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF038-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential site identified from aerial photographs taken in 1974 (GSI S 557/6). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF038-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the E facing slope of rising ground in upland area. All that remains of this site is a natural looking hollow depression (diam 27m) with slight evidence of a possible destroyed outer bank visible at S only. Marked on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps but not marked on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF038-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on high ground in upland area. Domed circular area (diam 60m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.3m) which intersects field boundary at S. Causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Rath More.

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 Rath More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Rath More · An Ráth Mór

Area

3,172,844 m² (317.28 ha, 784.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Kilcolman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcolman electoral division: 398 people in 143 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyatty, Ballygaddy, Boveen, Clonbeg, Gorteenafoly or Newhall, Killistristane, Nadneagh, Rath Beg, Sharavogue

Placenames

Rath More 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.