Rathkeeragan

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathkeeragan, from 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 242,597 m² (24.26 ha, 59.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  A MOBILE HOME WITH ANCILLARY SERVICES INCLUDING SEWAGE PUMPSTATION AND PERMISSION FOR A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARIES

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 23402

• 18 Sept 2023N/a

  A MOBILE HOME AND ANCILLARY SERVICES INCLUDING SEWAGE PUMP STATION, CONNECTED INTO R35 EC64 SERVICES

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23377

• 18 Sept 2023N/a

  PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND ANCILLARIES, HOUSE PROPOSED IS TWO-STOREY

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23378

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC SHED/STORE, BORED WELL AND ASSSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22525

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE DOMESTIC GARAGE SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21171

• 16 Feb 2017Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1760

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 Rathkeeragan.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-043 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains of any enclosure indicated from GSI aerial photographs (GSI N 184/3/2) taken in 1973. 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 Rathkeeragan.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rathkeeragan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathkeeragan.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rathkeeragan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Rathkeeragan · Ráth Ciaragáin

Area

435,613 m² (43.56 ha, 107.64 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Killoughy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

771 people lived in 261 households in the Killoughy electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortacur, Lowerton Beg, Mullaghcrohy, Rathmurragh

Placenames

Rathkeeragan 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.