# Rathenny, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cullenwaine, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Ráth Eanaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,107,509 m² (110.75 ha, 273.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,540 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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/41812 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181039 - Centre: latitude 52.899383, longitude -8.018644 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathenny, from 184 m² to 605,898 m² (60.59 ha, 149.72 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 303350: 605,898 m² (60.59 ha, 149.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303350.md - Parcel 277838: 170,687 m² (17.07 ha, 42.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277838.md - Parcel 275007: 44,508 m² (4.45 ha, 11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275007.md - Parcel 293067: 33,613 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293067.md - Parcel 272692: 29,356 m² (2.94 ha, 7.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272692.md - Parcel 307439: 23,770 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307439.md - Parcel 304999: 23,116 m² (2.31 ha, 5.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304999.md - Parcel 288433: 20,494 m² (2.05 ha, 5.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288433.md - Parcel 305185: 19,013 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305185.md - Parcel 275921: 16,155 m² (1.62 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275921.md - Parcel 290525: 12,109 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290525.md - Parcel 307260: 10,919 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307260.md - Parcel 270357: 7,670 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270357.md - Parcel 295090: 7,287 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295090.md - Parcel 313803: 4,652 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313803.md - Parcel 300477: 4,225 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300477.md - Parcel 270432: 3,893 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270432.md - Parcel 275339: 3,850 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275339.md - Parcel 295535: 3,815 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295535.md - Parcel 284926: 3,566 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284926.md - Parcel 304419: 3,551 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304419.md - Parcel 282091: 3,529 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282091.md - Parcel 294964: 3,492 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294964.md - Parcel 300962: 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300962.md - Parcel 301724: 3,367 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301724.md - Parcel 291920: 3,230 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291920.md - Parcel 272678: 2,996 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272678.md - Parcel 276640: 2,744 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276640.md - Parcel 272309: 2,655 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272309.md - Parcel 306609: 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306609.md - Parcel 276258: 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276258.md - Parcel 295049: 2,363 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295049.md - Parcel 4332199: 2,307 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4332199.md - Parcel 272736: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272736.md - Parcel 2862476: 2,256 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2862476.md - Parcel 295234: 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295234.md - Parcel 299638: 1,927 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/299638.md - Parcel 269700: 1,781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/269700.md - Parcel 303170: 1,743 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303170.md - Parcel 313077: 1,615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/313077.md - Parcel 309084: 1,426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/309084.md - Parcel 296340: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296340.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 22 Mar 2018, Offaly County Council 18135: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18135/0 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 Rathenny. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF046-001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF046-001----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF046-030----. 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 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) - Rathenny House, country house, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14944014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14944014. 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, registry number 14946001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14946001. 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, registry number 14946002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14946002. 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. ## 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 Rathenny, 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, partly inferred. - 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, 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/rathenny.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathenny.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathenny.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathenny 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) - Brownstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brownstown.md - Emmel: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel.md - Knockaspur: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockaspur.md - Rath: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rath.md - Silverhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/silverhill.md - Snugborough: https://everytownland.com/offaly/snugborough-181094.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/rathenny - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/rathenny