Rathmount

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmount, from 598 m² to 60,585 m² (6.06 ha, 14.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Rathmount 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 Jul 2022Conditional

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT ON TWO SEPARATE AND DETACHED PARCELS OF LAND, PARCEL 1 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONBEALE BEG GLEBE, RATHURE NORTH, WHILE PARCEL 2 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF PARKMORE. BOTH SEPARATE PARCELS WILL BE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING PERMITTED SOLAR DEVELOPMENT UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF: PL20/476 BY UNDERGROUND CABLES (WILL BE SUBJECT TO A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CONSENT APPLICATION). EACH DETACHED PARCEL CONTAINING PV PANELS WILL BE LAID OUT IN ARRAYS OVER A TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA OF CA. 69HA, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 24 NO. POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 12 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22368

• 1 Jul 2022N/a

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT ON TWO SEPARATE AND DETACHED PARCELS OF LAND, PARCEL 1 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONBEALE BEG GLEBE, RATHURE NORTH, WHILE PARCEL 2 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF PARKMORE. BOTH SEPARATE PARCELS WILL BE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING PERMITTED SOLAR DEVELOPMENT UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF: PR20/476 BY UNDERGROUND CABLES (WILL BE SUBJECT TO A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CONSENT APPLICATION). EACH DETACHED PARCEL CONTAINING PV PANELS WILL BE LAID OUT IN ARRAYS OVER A TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA OF CA. 69HA, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 24 NO. POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 12 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22335

• 5 Oct 2020Conditional

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 45MW COMPRISING OF CA. 105,000 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF 38KV SUBSTATION (CA. 114.4M2 X 4.75 TALL), A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA. 18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED BUND (CA.55M2), ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO POWER HUBS (CA.15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA. 45.2HA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20476

• 11 Sept 2020N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 45MW COMPRISING OF CA. 105,000NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF 38KV SUBSTATION (CA. 114.4M2 X 4.75 TALL), A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA. 18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED SITE BUND (CA.55M2), ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO POWER HUBS (CA.15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE FROM THE ADJOINING L7007 TO THE NORTH AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA. 45.2HA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20432

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 Rathmount.

Recorded monuments

• OF031-072 Cross - High cross (present location)
  Description

  Head of high cross (OF036-028003-) originally located in W quadrant of Drumcullen graveyard (OF036-028002-). The shaft of the cross is missing while the circular-shaped base of the cross can still be seen standing in the W quadrant of the graveyard a few metres W of the W gable of the medieval church ruins (OF036-028001-). The cross-head was removed from Drumcullen graveyard by Offaly County Council for safety reasons and placed on public display inside Rath R. C. Church on the 14th of December 2015. The cross was described by Harbison (1992, vol. 1, 75) as a 'cross-head with one arm still remaining lies close to an old church (OF036-028001-). Close by is what would appear to be an ancient mill-stone, which may have served as a base for the cross at some time. The cross-head is 96 cm high, and only 40cm broad now, but originally it would have measured about 60cm across the arms. It is 18cm thick. The directions (east/west) given below are notional. East Face: In the centre there is a circular raised moulding enclosing spiral decoration emanating from a central circle. There is interlace decoration in the limbs of the cross. The ring, with roll moulding at the edges, has interlace decoration. South Face: The underside of the ring has a vertical roll moulding in the centre, while the end of the arm has a panel of interlace. West Face: Centre; The Crucifixion - Christ is shown with outstretched arms, and wearing a rope-like garment. Stephaton is probably on the left and Longinus on the right. There is a hemispherical boss (Sol, the sun, or a worn human head?) at the end of Christ's arm. The other arm has been broken away. Above Christ's head there would seem to be a spiral motif. The surviving arc of the ring is similar to that on the east face, though the mouldings are higher.' To see a 3D model of this high-cross, visit; https://skfb.ly/oxSDO 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 January 2016

Architectural heritage

• Rath Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church on a cruciform plan with four-bay nave, built c.1830, sacristy to south and porch to north. Toilet block and random stone grotto dedicated to the Virgin Mary to south. Pitched slate roof with ridge cresting and tooled stone coping and stone gable cross finial and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls with rendered quoins and smooth cast base plinth. Pointed-arched windows with rendered surrounds and painted sills, timber frames with stain glass windows. Pointed-arched door openings with rendered surround, double timber doors and stain glass overlight, concrete steps to entrance. Timber pews to interior with supporting painted columns, timber furniture to altar.

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 5 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 Rathmount.

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

Name

Rathmount · Ráth Mhic Giolla Dhuibh

Area

157,039 m² (15.7 ha, 38.81 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Drumcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Mullanafawnia, Raheenglass, Thomastown Demesne, Tinnacross

Placenames

Rathmount 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.