Rath

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 637 m² to 155,685 m² (15.57 ha, 38.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Rath 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.

• 27 Feb 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050225

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH LEAN TO

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951074

• 2 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLINGHOUSE, FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850687

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 16/50084 & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751179

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 Rath.

Recorded monuments

• DG104-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 29.4m. A subcircular area surrounded by an earthen bank, a fosse and an outer bank. A laneway cuts through the N side, the fosse having been extended for this purpose. It is very badly overgrown and situated in poor wet 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

• DG104-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 20m. A circular area enclosed by an earthen bank created by scarping the hillside and giving a steep appearance from the outside. Ploughing occurs right up to the bank and is probably responsible for a platform of earth which juts out from beneath it. It may also have obscured a fosse if one ever existed. The site is situated on top of a steep hill with excellent views in all directions but the land in the valleys is wet and marshy. 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

Architectural heritage

• Rath Bridge, bridge, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1780. Round-headed arch having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs and rubble stone masonry to arch barrel. Coursed and squared rubble stone construction with rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone coping; modern repairs in places. Rubble stone wing walls to either ends of parapets. Wing walls step-in on plan to centre. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Ballintra and to the north of Brownhall (see 40910401).

• Bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple/multiple-arched bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1780. Round-headed arches having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs and rubble stone masonry to arch barrels. Coursed and squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and piers with coursed rubble stone and rubble stone construction to parapets with roughly squared stone coping over; rubble stone wing walls to either ends of parapets having roughly squared rubble stone coping over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Ballintra and to the north-west of Brownhall (see 40910401).

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 Rath, about 1 in 10 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 Rath.

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

Name

Rath

Area

516,131 m² (51.61 ha, 127.54 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

772 people lived in 281 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintooey, Ballydermot, Carrickbreeny, Lisnapaste

Placenames

Rath 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.