Rathpalatine

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathpalatine, from 592 m² to 285,816 m² (28.58 ha, 70.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Rathpalatine 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.

• 29 Jan 2021N/a

  a 2 storey dwelling house and domestic garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2174

• 31 May 2019Refused

  a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 19537

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 Rathpalatine.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight W-facing slope. Circular area (28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 4m) with an external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.2m). Farm trackway skirts site WNW->N. Interior level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 36m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.6), with an external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 0.6m) WSW->ENE. Bank levelled and fosse largely infilled with rubble ENE->WSW. Field boundaries, which abutted site at W, N and E, have been removed. Interior level and clear of overgrowth. A recently constructed farm building stands immediately E of enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Roughly circular area (44m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.85m) with an external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 2.4m). Bank has been levelled NNE->E and fosse infilled E->WSW. Farm trackway skirts site NE->E. Interior, under pasture, slopes gently up towards centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.15m) with an external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 3.6m). Most of enclosing element and all of interior are covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathpalatine.

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 Rathpalatine, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathpalatine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rathpalatine · Ráth na bPalaitíneach

Area

1,406,345 m² (140.63 ha, 347.52 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Broadford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

993 people lived in 349 households in the Broadford electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnell, Cloonmore, Feohanagh, Gortmore, Killeen, Tullaha

Placenames

Rathpalatine 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.