Rathrobin

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathrobin, from 56 m² to 619,224 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  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.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  RENOVATION AND BUILD ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, FORM NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2675

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK, AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW ROADSIDE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2669

• 8 Aug 2026N/a

  The construction of a new single-storey detached domestic dwelling & detached domestic garage, the installation of a new septic tank & percolation area and the construction of a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660412

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  a new slatted tank and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560551

• 30 Sept 2025N/a

  a new slatted tank and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560455

• 10 Dec 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SINGLE STOREY GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH A SOIL POLISHING FILTER, ENTRANCE, BORED WELL, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20625

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA, UTILISING EXISTING ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19450

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 Rathrobin.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-044001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Located on high ground with good extensive views. All that survives today are the ruins of a 19th-century house which was burnt in 1920 (Bence-Jones 1978, 240). To the NW of the big house there is rectangular hood moulding of late medieval date on the gable end of an outhouse. This is all that remains of Rathrobin castle which probably belonged to the 17th-century. According to Bence-Jones (1978, 240) Nicholas Biddulph built a house in 1694 near an old castle, this house was later replaced by the present 19th-century house, the ruins of which can still be seen. According to the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society (OHAS) in 1974 there was an inscribed stone (OF024-044003-) on this ruined building which read 'Rathrobin House built by Nicholas/son of John son of Francis Biddulph in the year 1694 bestowed by his direct descendant Middleton Biddulph In the year 1898' (OHAS file 1974). Rathrobin House appears to have been built from the ruins of earlier castle with this inscribed slab incoporated into the front wall of Rathrobin House. In 1974 they recorded that the remains of a tower house were incoporated into farmyard buildings (OHAS file 1974) 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

• OF024-044003 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Located on high ground with good extensive views. All that survives today are the ruins of a 19th-century house which was burnt in the 1920's (Bence-Jones 1978, 240). According to Bence-Jones (1978, 240) Nicholas Biddulph built a house in 1694 near an old castle, this house was later replaced by the present 19th-century house, the ruins of which can still be seen. The Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society in 1974 record that there was an inscribed stone on this ruined building which reads 'Rathrobin House built by Nicholas/son of John son of Francis Biddulph in the year 1694 bestowed by his direct descendant Middleton Biddulph In the year 1898' (OHAS file 1974). This inscribed slab is incoporated into the apex of the gable fronted N wall of Rathrobin House and is 19th century in date. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload / revision: 09 March 2011

• OF024-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on the W facing slope of a ridge running N-S. Quarry located where site is marked on OS 6-inch map. The local landowner will not touch the overgrowth on this ridge because he believes that it is a fairy fort. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1912 OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF032-004 Cairn - wayside cairn
  Description

  This site was removed by the county council in the course of road widening operations. Within living memory this monument was related to funerary practices. The funeral procession would stop at the monument and place a stone there in memory of the deceased. Another story about the monument was that at times of battle the men who went off to fight would leave a stone behind. Those who returned would retrieve their stones but the stones of those who perished would remain as a memorial (Shaw 1971, 9-10). 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

• Rathrobin, country house, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house with dormer attic, dated 1898, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch to ground floor; single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Burnt, 1923. Now in ruins. Roofs now missing with ivy-covered limestone ashlar chimney stacks having ogee-detailed stringcourses below ogee-detailed cornice capping. Part ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined mass concrete walls on overgrown plinth with finial-topped ogee-detailed cut-limestone coping to gables. Tudor-headed door opening (porch) with three cut-limestone steps, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having moulded reveals with hood moulding. Tudor-headed door opening into country house with cut-limestone step threshold, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having moulded reveals centred on keystone. Square-headed window openings in multipartite arrangement with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 moderately low, 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 Rathrobin.

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

Name

Rathrobin · Ráth Roibín

Area

4,015,075 m² (401.51 ha, 992.15 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Rathrobin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathrobin electoral division: 461 people in 152 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbrack Glebe, Clondonnell Glebe, Clonseer, Clonshannagh, Cooldorragh Glebe, Cormeen, Gortacur, Killoughy, Lugamarla, Mullaghcrohy

Placenames

Rathrobin 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.