Rathbaun

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbaun, from 71 m² to 253,881 m² (25.39 ha, 62.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Rathbaun 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.

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house with on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 284.70 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560519

• 28 Mar 2025Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house with onsite wastewater treatment system, domestic Garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 224.00 sqm(G), 60.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560344

• 8 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 224.69 sqm & (Garage) 31.85 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461013

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 165 sqm (house) & 45 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212428

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  for sunroom extension to enclose existing roof terrace and retention of a new garden shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 40 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 38.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18378

• 13 Sept 2017Conditional

  for an dwelling house, garage, new septic tank/treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of works 208sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171368

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 Rathbaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-150 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillslope in pastureland overlooking land that is liable to flooding to the NW. This well-preserved rath (diam. 45.45m) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. McCaffrey (1952, 286, no. 8) noted traces of a ‘stone revetment’ on the internal face of the inner bank and on both faces of the fosse. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA114-151 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pastureland at the S end of a small esker. This circular ring-barrow (diam. 24.6m), in fair condition, is defined by a flat-topped mound (diam. 9.9m; H 0.6m) encircled by a fosse (Wth 4-5m) and a low external bank (Wth 2.6-3m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.35m) which is badly eroded at N. The centre of the mound has been disturbed. (McCaffrey 1952, 29, no. 21; 1955, 225; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 68) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1970).

• GA114-152 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Marked on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a subcircular enclosure (c. 36m E-W; c. 32m N-S) defined by a bank and fosse with traces of a possible outer bank from NE to SE. A field boundary curves around the monument from WSW to N. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 287, no. 23) as an ‘Earthen fort’ which was ‘extremely damaged’; only a section of the bank (L 48m; Wth 3.6m; H 1.2m) survived; the outline of the remainder was visible in the ploughed field. In a ‘modern plantation’ to the N of the bank were traces of a ‘ditch’ that may have been associated with the rath. No visible surface trace of the bank survives. However, the outline of the monument is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photography. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA114-153 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Circular rath (diam. 33m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The interior is raised above the level of the surrounding field. The inner bank is visible for most of its circumference and is best preserved from E to S. A road overlies the outer bank from SSW to NNW. Two hollows in the E part of the interior appear to be the result of quarrying. A souterrain (GA114-153001-) is associated. (McCaffrey 1952, 287, no. 28) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• GA114-153001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA114-153----). Recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 287, no. 28) who noted that it was destroyed. On inspection in November 1982 a local man recalled entering the souterrain as child. No visible suface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• GA114-154 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 26m). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 287, no. 27) as an ‘Earthen fort’ which was ‘very ruinous’. It was defined by a raised area or scarp with some evidence of stone-facing and was completely obscured by overgrowth. No visible surface trace survives. A souterrain (GA114-154001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• GA114-154001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA114-154----). Named 'Cave' on the 1838 and 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. When McCaffrey (1952, 289, no. 27) visited the monument he could not locate the souterrain due to dense overgrowth. On re-inspection in November 1982 no visible surface trace was noted. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• GA114-155 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). McCaffrey (1952, 286, no. 22) recorded that it was 'Not present' during his survey. No visible surface trace survives. However, very faint traces of its outline are visible on the OSi Ortho_ITM aerial imagery (Google 2019). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathbaun, about 1 in 5 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 Rathbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rathbaun · An Ráth Bán

Area

1,589,065 m² (158.91 ha, 392.67 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 185 households in the Skehanagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caheratrim, Furzypark, Lackan, Moneen East, Moneen West

Placenames

Rathbaun 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.