Rath

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 80 m² to 108,032 m² (10.8 ha, 26.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 70 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of construction of a two storey style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance to public road. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561169

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  a two storey dwelling with single storey rear element, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560984

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  the development consists of retention of an existing 2 storey rear extension, a side glass porch, an existing second vehicular entrance and two domestic sheds. The development will consist of the installation of a new septic tank, percolation area, and surface water soakaways in accordance with the site suitability assessment design, and all associated site development works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2560550

• 23 May 2025N/a

  the development consists of retention of an existing 2 storey rear extension, a side glass porch, an existing second vehicular entrance and two domestic sheds. The development will consist of the installation of a new septic tank, percolation area, and surface water soakaways in accordance with the site suitability assessment design, and all associated site development works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2560526

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of Dog Kennels/Cattery, two wastewater disposals systems, mains water connection and upgrading of the existing agricultural entrance to serve the development. Permission is also sought for all associated site works and services to serve this development. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460251

• 30 Jun 2022Refused

  planning permission for Demolition of existing derelict sheds and erection of a new storage unit, with new upgraded site access and associated site access and associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 22861

• 3 Sept 2020Conditional

  a part storey and a half, part bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls piers and all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA201208

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

• ME033-010 Font
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Octagonal font with champfered lower portion and resting on octagonal base. Used as holy water font in RC church.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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. Meath.

Name

Rath · An Ráth

Area

864,780 m² (86.48 ha, 213.69 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcath, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Ardcath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,119 people lived in 721 households in the Ardcath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcath, Balgeeth, Bunnianstown, Commons Upper (Co. Dublin), Irishtown, Moorepark, Princetown

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.