Rathmore

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 16 m² to 119,929 m² (11.99 ha, 29.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Rathmore 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.

• 18 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350036

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE SERVICED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH POLISHING FILTER & DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151454

• 16 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY- AND- A- HALF DWELLINGHOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY DOMESTIC EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750213

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 Rathmore.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 50m. Marked 'Rathmore' on the OS 6-inch maps the site consists of a subcircular area enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, a fosse from 1m to 2m wide, a second bank and fosse and a small outer bank. The fosses are almost fully silted-up and covered by rushes. The S half of the site is badly overgrown and the outer bank almost totally covered by bushes. The site is situated on the crest of a ridge commanding extensive views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 No archaeological significance NGR G857595 Excavation Licence No. 05E0528 The footprint of a house, access road and sewage lines located some 200m south-east of Rathmore rath (SMR 107:79), near Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, were tested by means of a series of trenches excavated by a machine fitted with a toothless bucket. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted (Excavations Bulletin 2005). Eoin Halpin, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.

• DG107-090 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.7m high × 0.4m wide × 0.16m thick; N-S. Situated on fairly wet pasture land with extensive views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG107-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 26.6m. Marked 'Rathgreaghan' on the OS 6-inch maps the site consists of a circular area enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, a fosse and an outer low bank worn away in places. The whole site is overgrown with trees and bushes. It is situated on the edge of a low ridge in good land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG107-092 Standing stone
  Description

  A previous account (Davies) recorded a standing stone, 2ft high, here. This could not be found but the area is heavily overgrown and it may remain concealed. Situated on a S facing slope. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG107-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 23m. A circular single-earthen-banked enclosure, badly overgrown and situated in wet marshy land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG107-111 Enclosure
  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 Rathmore.

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 Rathmore, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1335 (ZIP).

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 Rathmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Rathmore

Area

1,949,119 m² (194.91 ha, 481.64 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmacsaint, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Bundoran Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,179 people lived in 408 households in the Bundoran Rural electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardfarn, Drumacrin, Dunmuckrum, Finner, Rathglass

Placenames

Rathmore 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.