Rathshanmore East
Rathshanmore East is a townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Ráth Sheáin Mhóir Thoir.
Parcel 1299024
- Area
- 117,065 m² (11.71 ha, 28.93 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 347 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Rathshanmore East
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 119.4 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 49,055 m² (4.91 ha, 12.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathshanmore East, from 11 m² to 255,407 m² (25.54 ha, 63.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathshanmore East 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
9 Feb 2026N/a
Permission to construct a slatted cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works in my existing farmyard. 1no. 375sq.m Slatted Cattle Shed with 6.9m ridge height.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660084
30 Jul 2019Conditional
dwelling as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19831
23 Jul 2019N/a
dwelling as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19796
17 Nov 2017Conditional
dwelling, garage, well, effluent treatment system, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171381
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 Rathshanmore East.
Recorded monuments
- WI033-013 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on a marked SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 36.7m), defined by a stone-faced earth and stone bank (max. ext. H 1.2m (at the SE); max. int. H 0.8m (at the N); max. Wth 1.8m). The entrance is a stone-faced gap (Wth 2m) at the NW. Described by Reynolds (1973, 40) as having two banks. The site has a level interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI033-014 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope. An approximately circular area (dims. 29.5m N-S; 31.4m E-W), defined by a stone-faced bank or wall (ext. H at E 1.4m; int H 0.4m; ext. H at W 0.25m; int H 0.9m). The gap at the SE (Wth 1.2m) is probably not the original entrance. Described by Reynolds (1973, 40) as a small rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathshanmore East.
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 Rathshanmore East, 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 Rathshanmore East.
- 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 Rathshanmore East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Rathshanmore East · Ráth Sheáin Mhóir Thoir
- Area
- 1,194,213 m² (119.42 ha, 295.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hacketstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Ballybeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 217 people lived in 71 households in the Ballybeg electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnaboy, Kyle, Rathcot, Rathmeague, Rathshanmore South, Rathshanmore West
- Placenames
- Rathshanmore East 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.