# Rathure South, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Ráth Iúir Theas. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 841,294 m² (84.13 ha, 207.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,003 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumcullen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/drumcullen.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Killyon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41424 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181055 - Centre: latitude 53.114767, longitude -7.817055 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 292353: 180,233 m² (18.02 ha, 44.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292353.md - Parcel 309375: 151,889 m² (15.19 ha, 37.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309375.md - Parcel 3598380: 126,068 m² (12.61 ha, 31.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3598380.md - Parcel 292640: 100,760 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292640.md - Parcel 292889: 40,360 m² (4.04 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292889.md - Parcel 280185: 40,080 m² (4.01 ha, 9.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280185.md - Parcel 5358705: 36,641 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5358705.md - Parcel 274734: 32,592 m² (3.26 ha, 8.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274734.md - Parcel 281929: 28,855 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281929.md - Parcel 303385: 26,364 m² (2.64 ha, 6.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303385.md - Parcel 277727: 17,064 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277727.md - Parcel 4222642: 16,003 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222642.md - Parcel 307684: 7,964 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307684.md - Parcel 309227: 4,934 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309227.md - Parcel 305364: 4,533 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305364.md - Parcel 279825: 4,391 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279825.md - Parcel 306116: 4,235 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306116.md - Parcel 5098631: 4,151 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5098631.md - Parcel 308901: 3,068 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308901.md - Parcel 312092: 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312092.md - Parcel 5611885: 2,860 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5611885.md - Parcel 292638: 2,798 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292638.md - Parcel 2445123: 2,666 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2445123.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Jun 2025, Offaly County Council 2560222: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560222/0 - 3 Sept 2019, Offaly County Council 19426: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. BUILDING ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19426/0 - 4 Jul 2018, Offaly County Council 18291: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18291/0 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 Rathure South. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF035-010: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-019----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathure South. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/rathure-south.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathure-south.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathure-south.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinree: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinree-180080.md - Clonbeale More: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonbeale-more.md - Coole: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coole-180478.md - Rathgibbon North: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathgibbon-north.md - Rathgibbon South: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathgibbon-south.md - Rathure North: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathure-north.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/rathure-south - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/rathure-south