Rathglass

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathglass, from 1,307 m² to 114,941 m² (11.49 ha, 28.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathglass 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.

• 24 Jun 2024Conditional

  Full planning permission for alterations to dwelling elevations as previously granted under planning permission Ref. No: P22/561 and to include all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460389

• 18 Jun 2023Conditional

  1. Demolish existing dwelling house 2. Construct new Dwelling House 3. All ancillary services associated with the development

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360219

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, RETAIN EXISTING GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22561

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 Rathglass.

Recorded monuments

• MA029-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rathglass, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Rathglass, Rehins Fort5 sales

Name

Rathglass · An Ráth Ghlas

Area

458,108 m² (45.81 ha, 113.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Fortland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 192 households in the Fortland electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Ballynacloy, Fairfield Lower, Treanagh

Placenames

Rathglass 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.