Rathneestin

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathneestin, from 167 m² to 603,353 m² (60.34 ha, 149.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Rathneestin 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.

• 7 May 2026Refused

  Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660272

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  1. Permission to renovate and extend an existing derelict dwelling to include a new single storey/ 1 and a half-storey extension to the existing dwelling. 2. Permission for a new wastewater treatment system to include all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25116

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 Rathneestin.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-114001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Field known locally as the 'Castle Field'. Reputedly the site of Niselrath Castle, a probable tower house, described in 1599 as 'a square castle and a great bawne with a good dytche rounde abowte it' (Paterson 1944, 321-2). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

• LH011-114002 Bawn
  Description

  Field known locally as the 'Castle Field'. Reputedly the site of Niselrath Castle, a probable tower house, described in 1599 as 'a square castle and a great bawne with a good dytche rounde abowte it' (Paterson 1944, 321-2). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 12 April 2012

• LH011-129 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.G.03) shows cropmark of an incomplete circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• LH011-130 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.G.03) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• LH011-152 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The faint cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 60m ENE-WSW; c. 50m NNW-SSE) defined by fosse SSW-N-NE is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathneestin, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathneestin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Rathneestin · Ráth Nístin

Area

2,563,857 m² (256.39 ha, 633.54 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Ardee Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Tallanstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,069 people lived in 382 households in the Tallanstown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavanrobert, Coolrath, Louth Hall, Lowrath North, Lowrath South, Philipstown, Rathbody, Thomastown

Placenames

Rathneestin 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.