Rathescar Middle

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathescar Middle, from 324 m² to 181,498 m² (18.15 ha, 44.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Rathescar Middle 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.

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660380

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission to construct 4 no. poultry houses together with roofed/enclosed service yard, 1 no. office, 1 no. generator store and 1 no. bin/general purpose store, along with all ancillary structures (to include gas storage tanks, 3 no. soilded water tanks, 4 no. meal storage bins and the provision of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area) and associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance and internal laneway, and provision for 4 no. passing bays on the local public road) associated with the development. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Requlations 1994to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211499

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, roadside entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20495

• 27 Feb 2020Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a combination domestic garage and home gymnasium

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20134

• 6 Feb 2020N/a

  Permission for the construction of a combination domestic garage and home gymnasium

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2074

• 22 Oct 2019N/a

  Permission for the construction of a combination domestic garage/home gymnasium.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19873

• 17 Jun 2019Refused

  Permission to construct 4 no. poultry houses together with roofed/enclosed service yard, 1 no. office, 1 no. generator store and 1 no. bin/general purpose store along with all ancillary structures (to include gas storage tanks, 3 no. soiled water tanks, 4 no. meal storage bins and the provision of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area) and associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance and internal laneway) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted with this planning application.*Significant Further Information submitted 11/2/2020 which provides for revised entrance details to facilitate sightlines & 4 no. passing bays on public road*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19469

• 9 Mar 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for development will consist of a dormer type dwelling house, vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and for all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18202

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 Rathescar Middle.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathescar Middle.

Architectural heritage

• Rathescar, country house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1760. Single-bay two-storey wings to north and south c. 1830, round rendered tower to rear (west) with pierced battlements and conical copper roof c. 1830, entrance portico to east, domed glass house to south-west; decorative covered veranda to south elevation. Pitched slate roof, hipped to north and south wings, red brick chimneystacks with dressed limestone corbelled courses and caps, gutter hidden by parapet, cast-iron hoppers, circular cast-iron downpipes. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, frieze with patera separating first and second floors, surmounted by moulded sill course to second floor windows, stone parapet; segmental-headed recessed blind arches, moulded rendered surround, running from ground to first floor on main house and ground floor to wings, block-and-start quoins to wings. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, painted timber tripartite windows to ground floor, six-over-six sliding sash windows to first floor, three-over-three to second floor. Doric portico to east, painted timber columns and pilasters to plain frieze and cornice, square-headed door opening, painted timber double doors with eight flat panels, two limestone steps to entrance, limestone entrance platform to portico. House opens onto oval grassed area, stableyard to north, approached by long avenue, through fields to east.

• Rathescar, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rendered and stone stableyard, built c. 1820. Irregular plan, single- and two-storey outbuildings gathered around central yard, screen wall to east. Pitched, hipped and lean-to slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks to south range, cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone and roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, some with red brick block-and-start surround, limestone sills, painted timber six-over-three, three-over-three, and three-over-six sliding sash windows, arrow loop windows to first floor west hayloft, lunettes to first floor east hayloft. Square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, some overlights, segmental-headed carriage arch opening to east, brick voussoirs, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors. Single-storey lean-to house to north attached to former carriage house with three segmental-carriage arches to ground floor and single-bay lean-to structure with ashlar stone bellcote. Segmental-headed arch to north-west leads to rear of house; segmental-headed arch to north-east leads to fields; stableyard bounded by rubble stone walling and piers at 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

At the centre of the townland of Rathescar Middle, about 1 in 20 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 Rathescar Middle.

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.

No address of the register names Rathescar Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Rathescar Middle · Ráth Eascair Láir

Area

1,283,640 m² (128.36 ha, 317.19 acres)

Civil parish

Mosstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,270 people lived in 1,088 households in the Dunleer electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cliven, Gunstown, Lismanus, Philipstown, Whiteriver, Woodhouse

Placenames

Rathescar Middle 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.