Rathcoole

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcoole, from 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 249,737 m² (24.97 ha, 61.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Rathcoole 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathcoole 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathcoole.

Recorded monuments

• LH017-063 Earthwork
  Description

  According to information gathered in 1967 by Peter Danaher (ASI) this field was called the 'Mount field' and was also known as the 'moat'. It might be the location of the 'moat' recorded for this townland in the OS Letters (CLAJ 1923, 200). This is also the approximate location of an earthwork shown on Taylor and Skinner's map (1777). The field is a long, low ridge beside a stream. There was no visible trace of an earthwork in 1967. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 21 June 2012

• LH017-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the E tip of a W-E spur. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 39m E-W; c. 36m N-S) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 3-5m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October 2021

Architectural heritage

• Rathcoole House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1820. Two-storey over basement lean-to return to west, single-storey over basement lean-to to north-west, three-bay two-storey addition to south-west. Hipped slate roofs, smooth rendered flat capped chimneystacks, uPVC rainwater goods. Square-headed window openings, granite sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, three-over-three to first floor and basement, segmental-headed stair window opening to west, painted smooth rendered surround, fixed multiple-pane timber window, decorative margin lights. Segmental-headed door opening to east elevation, replacement painted timber doorcase comprising fluted pilaster, console brackets to cornice, sidelights and fanlight, painted timber panelled door,, granite steps flanked by cast-iron railing,. Segmental-headed arched opening to west flanked by random rubble wall leads to stableyard; stone outbuildings, pitched slate roof, uPVC rainwater goods; random rubble walling; square-headed window openings, brick sills and surrounds, painted timber casements; square and segmental-headed door openings, tooled stone surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, painted timber vertically-sheeted half-doors; square-headed gate opening to south-west leading to walled garden, red brick surround, cast-iron gates. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge to north-east, hipped slate roof, random rubble walling, stone quoins, square-headed window openings, stone sills, brick surrounds (now blocked); segmental-headed door opening, brick surround, timber lintel, painted timber vertically-sheeted door.

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 Rathcoole, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathcoole · Ráth Cúil

Area

908,842 m² (90.88 ha, 224.58 acres)

Civil parish

Dromin, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

679 people lived in 218 households in the Dromin electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cliven, Knockdinnin, Painestown, Paughanstown, Philipstown, Rathescar North

Placenames

Rathcoole 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.