Rutland
Rutland is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcomin, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Rutland.
- Area
- 69.3 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 691,927 m² (69.19 ha, 170.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Rutland, from 691,927 m² (69.19 ha, 170.98 acres) to 691,927 m² (69.19 ha, 170.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rutland 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Rutland in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rutland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rutland.
Architectural heritage
- Rutland House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1780, with flat-roofed Doric portico, triple-pile return, two-storey stairs return, single-storey extension and single-storey porch to rear. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to roofs to rear porch and stairs return. Pitched tiled roof to rear extension. Smooth rendered walls with moulded string courses and sandstone quoins to façade. Pebbledashed walls to single-storey extension. Tripartite timber sash windows to ground floor with stone mullions, panelled aprons and window-heads to ground floor of façade with timber sash windows having tooled stone surrounds and sills to upper floor. Timber sash and replacement uPVC windows to side and rear elevations, and to extension. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation with timber sash window with patterned glass and stained glass margin lights to rear stairs return. Square-headed door opening within portico having moulded surround and replacement uPVC door. Timber doors to side elevation and rear porch. Single- and two-storey stone and roughcast rendered outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to yards having carriage arches, windows and door openings. Walled garden with random coursed stone and yellow brick wall, accessed through segmental-arched yellow brick opening with wrought-iron gate. Tooled ashlar limestone gate piers to road with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rutland, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rutland.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rutland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Rutland · Rutland
- Area
- 692,725 m² (69.27 ha, 171.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcomin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Electoral division
- Mountheaton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 665 people lived in 179 households in the Mountheaton electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywilliam, Clonbrennan, Clyduff, Keeloge, Milltown
- Placenames
- Rutland 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.