Rathure South

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathure South, from 2,666 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 180,233 m² (18.02 ha, 44.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Rathure South 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.

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  construction of a side extension to our existing dwelling house, and alterations to the existing dwelling house to include proposed windows and doors, installation of rooflights in the existing roof and a proposed front porch and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560222

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  BUILDING ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19426

• 4 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18291

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 Rathure South.

Recorded monuments

• OF035-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (Air Corps 755/754) shows faint outline of circular enclosure to the S of a large ringfort (OF036-019----). 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

• OF036-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was levelled several years ago. Hachured as large circular enclosure on 1912 edition of the 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathure South.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathure South · Ráth Iúir Theas

Area

841,294 m² (84.13 ha, 207.89 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Killyon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killyon electoral division: 276 people in 95 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Clonbeale More, Coole, Rathgibbon North, Rathgibbon South, Rathure North

Placenames

Rathure South 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.