Rathenny

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathenny, from 184 m² to 605,898 m² (60.59 ha, 149.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Rathenny 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.

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18135

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 Rathenny.

Recorded monuments

• OF046-001 Enclosure
  Description

  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

• OF046-030 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture on former demesne lands of Rathenny House. Outline of roughly D-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 46m N-S) visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthophotos Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 October 2021

Architectural heritage

• Rathenny House, country house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1800, with central bay breakfront, three-bay side elevations and extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof, hidden by parapet, with terracotta ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Hipped and pitched roofs to rear extensions. Random coursed limestone front and side elevations with tooled limestone quoins, tooled limestone parapet, string course and plinth course. Roughcast render to rear elevation and extensions. Square-headed, red brick window openings having cement-based rendered surrounds with timber sash Wyatt windows to front elevation and timber sash windows to side elevations. Segmental-headed, red brick door opening to front elevation with tooled limestone doorcase having engaged columns and pilasters, fluted frieze, Adam style spider web fanlight and geometric sidelights which flank replacement timber door. Door is accessed by four tooled limestone steps. Yard to rear of house, enclosed by random coursed stone wall with internal dividing wall to centre. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to yard with pitched slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls, timber battened doors and varied windows. Segmental-arched carriage opening to yard with wrought-iron gate, accessing fields. Walled garden with random coursed stone and brick walls accessed by carriage arch. Random coursed entrance gates to road with square-profiled inner and outer piers, linked by random coursed stone wall, which is surmounted by wrought-iron railings. Outer piers abutted by rendered sweeping walls. Wrought-iron gates hang from inner piers.

• Rathenny House, gate lodge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1810, with extensions to front and rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta and concrete ridge tiles and central rendered chimneystack. Catslide roofs to extensions. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth. uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to front elevation with glazed timber double doors. Four ashlar gate piers with paterae and fluting to capitals. Wrought-iron railings with to ashlar plinth walls. Wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gates.

• Rathenny Cottage, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over raised basement farmhouse, built c.1820, with projecting porch to front elevation and modern two-storey extension to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof over porch. Pitched tiled roof to extension. Pebbledash to walls with smooth render plinth and smooth render to modern extension. Timber sash window with stone sills and Wyatt windows to front elevation. Timber casement window to extension. Square-headed door opening to porch with replacement timber door, accessed by stone steps. Modern outbuildings to rear site. New gate piers to road.

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 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 Rathenny.

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

Name

Rathenny · Ráth Eanaigh

Area

1,107,509 m² (110.75 ha, 273.67 acres)

Civil parish

Cullenwaine, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Cullenwaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cullenwaine electoral division: 784 people in 279 households; 83% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brownstown, Emmel, Knockaspur, Rath, Silverhill, Snugborough

Placenames

Rathenny 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.