Rathroe

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathroe, from 830 m² to 466,618 m² (46.66 ha, 115.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Rathroe 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.

• 27 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission for demolition of single storey sheds, alterations to the existing single storey dwelling, the construction of a single-storey extension to the side of the dwelling, the construction of a single-storey garden shed, decommission the existing septic tank and install a secondary waste water treatment system, tertiary system, infiltration area, together with all ancillary development.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4073

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6673

• 29 Aug 2019Conditional

  Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6143

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4793

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4803

• 6 Jan 2011Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house with domestic garage, to install a proprietary treatment unit and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4011

• 22 Apr 2010Conditional

  Two-storey dwellinghouse, out house, entrance, septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4963

• 4 Dec 2006Conditional

  Extension to side of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12944

• 23 Sept 2005Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling and alterations, extension and conversion of garage for use as private artists studio

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6962

• 29 Jul 2005Incompleted application

  Alterations and additions to house and outbuildings and site entry

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5439

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 Rathroe.

Recorded monuments

• CO097-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Sub-circular area (35m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.3m); many gaps through bank, possible entrance to S and SW. Interior level and raised (H 1.95m) on N side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO097-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage on N-facing slope. Circular area (57m N-S; 55m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m) with external fosse; outer bank (ext. H 1.1m) survives NW->NNE. Entrance to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathroe, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Rathroe · An Ráth Rua

Area

609,589 m² (60.96 ha, 150.63 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Templemichael, the unit of the census

Census 2022

778 people lived in 243 households in the Templemichael electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaboy, Ballyheedy, Raheen, Stookeen

Placenames

Rathroe 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.