# Rathcahill, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmurryely, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Ráth Chathail. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 751,598 m² (75.16 ha, 185.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 35,134 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmurryely, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilmurryely.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Ballincor, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 185 people lived in 63 households in the Ballincor electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41766 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181036 - Centre: latitude 53.011066, longitude -7.940513 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcahill, from 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 189,038 m² (18.9 ha, 46.71 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 271866: 189,038 m² (18.9 ha, 46.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271866.md - Parcel 2483268: 125,415 m² (12.54 ha, 30.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2483268.md - Parcel 359846: 93,904 m² (9.39 ha, 23.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359846.md - Parcel 274992: 87,224 m² (8.72 ha, 21.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274992.md - Parcel 310324: 83,146 m² (8.31 ha, 20.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310324.md - Parcel 283194: 45,545 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283194.md - Parcel 2462431: 41,970 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462431.md - Parcel 311179: 35,134 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311179.md - Parcel 306799: 22,202 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306799.md - Parcel 311703: 6,028 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311703.md - Parcel 297867: 5,385 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297867.md - Parcel 2481742: 5,369 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481742.md - Parcel 269668: 5,350 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269668.md - Parcel 361132: 3,260 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361132.md - Parcel 292978: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292978.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rathcahill 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) 1 application, newest first. - 6 May 2024, Offaly County Council 2460159: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. alterations and extension to existing garage including raised roof height, reversed roof angle, additional window and door, sliding doors instead of roller doors, additional floor area including attached extra open storage shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460159/0 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 Rathcahill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF042-001: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF042-001----. Site of a landscape feature in the form of a Ha-ha in front of Rathcahill House, post-1700 date. 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 Rathcahill. ## 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 Rathcahill, 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 moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathcahill. - 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/rathcahill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathcahill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathcahill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathcahill 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) - Ballaghboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballaghboy.md - Ballincor Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballincor-demesne.md - Curralanty: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curralanty.md - Galbally: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galbally.md - Gortavally: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortavally.md - Kilmurryely: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmurryely.md - Moneyshingaun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/moneyshingaun.md - Tonagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tonagh.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/rathcahill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/rathcahill