# Rath, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cullenwaine, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Ráth. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 651,281 m² (65.13 ha, 160.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,818 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cullenwaine, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/cullenwaine.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Cullenwaine, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 784 people lived in 279 households in the Cullenwaine electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41811 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181033 - Centre: latitude 52.889365, longitude -8.015521 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 525 m² to 124,764 m² (12.48 ha, 30.83 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 289283: 124,764 m² (12.48 ha, 30.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289283.md - Parcel 295240: 122,079 m² (12.21 ha, 30.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295240.md - Parcel 283823: 109,870 m² (10.99 ha, 27.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283823.md - Parcel 283824: 101,459 m² (10.15 ha, 25.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283824.md - Parcel 5525747: 66,117 m² (6.61 ha, 16.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5525747.md - Parcel 283817: 50,302 m² (5.03 ha, 12.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283817.md - Parcel 272696: 32,615 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272696.md - Parcel 303351: 18,999 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303351.md - Parcel 310405: 4,301 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310405.md - Parcel 2476053: 3,336 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476053.md - Parcel 3134371: 3,024 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3134371.md - Parcel 277837: 3,006 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277837.md - Parcel 283535: 2,729 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283535.md - Parcel 5654531: 2,251 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5654531.md - Parcel 279931: 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279931.md - Parcel 282098: 2,073 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282098.md - Parcel 283819: 1,689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283819.md - Parcel 5525745: 525 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5525745.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rath 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 2 Sept 2026, Offaly County Council 2660463: N/a. Permission. THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660463/0 - 2 Sept 2026, Offaly County Council 2660464: N/a. Permission, 1 home. THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660464/0 - 25 Aug 2026, Offaly County Council 2660451: N/a. Permission. THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660451/0 - 24 Aug 2026, Offaly County Council 2660444: N/a. Permission. THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660444/0 - 21 Apr 2023, Offaly County Council 23175: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23175/0 - 2 Jun 2022, Offaly County Council 22280: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22280/0 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 Rath. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF046-003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF046-003----. No surface remains of any enclosure of archaeological significance, potential enclosure possible identified from aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI R 90; S 87). Of doubtful antiquity. 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 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 Rath. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 low, low (inferred). - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rath. - 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/offaly/rath.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rath.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rath.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballingorraun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballingorraun.md - Ballyknockane (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballyknockane-210299.md - Brownstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brownstown.md - Carrowea (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/carrowea.md - Rathenny: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathenny.md - Rosdrehid: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rosdrehid.md - Silverhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/silverhill.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/offaly/rath - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/rath