Rath

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 362 m² to 242,448 m² (24.24 ha, 59.91 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.

• M4RV (Built up area)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  as constructed and complete 2 Storey Dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, borehole, Wastewater treatment system with Percolation area, soakpits & all other associated works. PLANNING PERMISSION to convert Domestic Garage to Office space with associated storage

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560506

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  the demolition of the ruinous, detached, single-storey dwelling house and renovation / alterations to the adjacent, detached stone barn building to facilitate conversion to residential use. Permission is also sought for the construction of new single-storey extensions to the northern and southern ends of the barn building to provide additional associated living, sleeping and ancillary spaces, a detached, single-storey garage, a new septic tank and percolation area, boundary alterations, hard and soft landscaping and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460526

• 26 Aug 2024N/a

  The demolition of the ruinous, detached, single-storey dwelling house and renovation / alterations to the adjacent, detached stone barn building to facilitate conversion to residential use. Permission is also sought for the construction of new single-storey extensions to the northern and southern ends of the barn building to provide additional associated living, sleeping and ancillary spaces and shall include a new septic tank and percolation area, boundary alterations, hard and soft landscaping and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460486

• 1 Aug 2024Refused

  1) to retain as constructed and complete 2 Storey Dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, borehole, Wastewater treatment system with Percolation area, soakpits & all other associated works. 1) Planning permission to convert Domestic Garage to ‘Granny Flat’

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460441

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  to construct new cattle shed with slatted tank and feed passage and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2438

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  extension and alterations to existing dwelling consisting of: i) demolition of existing extension and construction of new single storey extension to rear of dwelling, ii) internal alterations and alterations to existing elevations, iv) and all other associated landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360484

• 27 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct single-storey dwelling, entrance, treatment plant, percolation area and auxiliary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23202

• 1 Nov 2021Conditional

  SECTION 254 LICENCE for 79 no. customer connection poles for upgrade/installation of Broadband Network (2021WD0534 / DA081)

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 211006

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  Section 254 Licence Application - The erection of overground electronic communications infrastructure and any associated physical infrastructure along public roads including:- 1. The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles 2. The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables (2021WD0329)

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21819

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a new cattle shed with slatted tank and feed passage and all associated works at

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21221

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, borehole, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18357

• 12 Apr 2018N/a

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, borehole, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18245

• 6 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17844

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rath.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1790, retaining most early fenestration. Part refenestrated, c.1965. Hipped roof with reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond squat chimney stack. Painted lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. 2/2 timber sash windows with one replacement timber casement window, c.1965. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt having limewashed random rubble stone boundary wall, limewashed rendered piers, and wrought iron gate. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1840, to west with square-headed carriageway to left. Reroofed, c.1940. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1940, iron ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Limewashed lime rendered walls. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded doors. Square-headed carriageway with replacement painted corrugated-iron door, c.1940.

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 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. Waterford.

Name

Rath · An Ráth

Area

1,484,407 m² (148.44 ha, 366.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kinsalebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Within Drum

Electoral division

Kinsalebeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

616 people lived in 229 households in the Kinsalebeg electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnacommera, Clashanahy, Grange, Knocknageragh or Summerhill, Moord, Mortgage, Pilltown, Springfield Lower

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.