Rathanlon

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathanlon, from 28,557 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres) to 104,295 m² (10.43 ha, 25.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rathanlon 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathanlon in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rathanlon.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-018 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Indicated on the OS 6-inch maps as coniferous tree plantation enclosed by a field wall curving from approximately SE to NW. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence suggests it was landscape feature associated with Tulliria demesne. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• GA114-147 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 285-6, no. 52) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 46m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives. A later circular field wall may mirror its outline. There is a souterrain (GA114-147001-) in the interior which is planted with trees. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA114-147001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (Ga114-147----). This inaccessible and partially collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >19.7m; Wth 1.6m) is L-shaped in plan. The long axis runs NW-SE before turning NNE-SSW at its SE end. (McCaffrey 1952, 286, no. 52) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA114-148 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  In level pastureland, formerly within the demesne of Tullira. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed roughly subcircular mixed tree plantation; on the 1921 edition it is enclosed by a wall. Described by McCaffrey (1952, 286, no. 52a) as a ‘very ruinous’ circular ‘Stone fort (?)’ (diam. c. 54m) with a tree plantation in the interior. The enclosing wall was hidden among the trees. The plantation is still evident but the enclosing wall consists of circular field wall. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted. The current evidence is insufficient to warrant accepting this as an archaeological monument; possibly a landscape feature. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• GA114-149 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in rough grazing land. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 285, no. 50a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 37.25m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall. Traces of an internal division or remains of possible hut sites were noted in the interior (SMR file). Apart from slight traces of a bank at W, no visible surface trace survives. A unit for collecting rain water occupies the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathanlon, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_800 (ZIP).

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 Rathanlon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rathanlon · Ráth Anluain

Area

282,066 m² (28.21 ha, 69.7 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

Ballymariscal, Caheratrim, Tullira

Placenames

Rathanlon 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.