Rathcallan
Rathcallan is a townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ráth Challainn.
Parcel 2197546
- Area
- 1,649 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 203 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Rathcallan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1507 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 99.1 ha
- 245 acres
- Land parcels
- 84
- registered freehold, median 499 m²
- Zoning
- G4
- Green Infrastructure
- Planning
- 48
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcallan, from 78 m² to 285,645 m² (28.56 ha, 70.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to: 1) Demolish the existing single storey rear extension to existing dwelling, 2) Construct a new single storey front porch, 3) A new single storey side and rear extension, 4) Install a new roof-light to the existing rear roof, 5) Construct a new domestic storage shed and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0495
1 Sept 2022Conditional
Installation of cattle underpass, soiled water tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5985
28 Jul 2022Incompleted application
Installation of a cattle underpass, soiled water tank and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5772
21 Jun 2022Conditional
The construction of 2 no. dwellings (change of house type from that which was granted under Planning Reg. No. 20/6881)
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5447
9 Feb 2022Conditional
To construct a cubicle house with slatted tank, calf house, straw bedded shed with slatted tank, silage pit with effluent tank, haybarn and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4255
21 Dec 2020Conditional
The construction of 32 no. dwellings, a stormwater attenuation tank, a vehicular entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6881
16 Nov 2020Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling house including extension to side, alterations to back and side elevations and internal alterations.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6523
11 Feb 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of change of use of former temporary living accommodation to domestic storage unit.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4247
18 Oct 2019Incompleted application
Retention of (former temporary accommodation ) as domestic garage as constructed on site.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/6525
2 Aug 2018Conditional
Retain 2 no. single storey extensions to dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6047
24 May 2018Conditional
Demolish an open slurry tank and to construct a new cattle shed over new and existing slatted tanks and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5346
21 Dec 2017Conditional
Construct a single storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with percolation area, entrance and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7426
12 Nov 2015Conditional
Construct a dwelling, treatment unit, entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6549
22 Jul 2014Conditional
Construction of agricultural machinery shed/store and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5584
1 Jul 2014Incompleted application
Construction of machinery shed/store & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5396
1 Aug 2013Unconditional
Dwellinghouse & septic tank, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/6229
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/5500
29 Jul 2013Conditional
Construction of cubicle house with milking parlour, slatted tanks, silage slab, entrance and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5465
3 Aug 2012Conditional
Construction of a single storey dwelling with an on-site sewage treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5684
1 May 2012Conditional
Demolition of an existing Calf House, to construct a Calf House, Machinery Shed and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4894
8 Jun 2010Conditional
Construction of one-and-a-half storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with percolation area, bored well & ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5411
9 Sept 2009Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling & outbuildings, and construction of a two-storey dwelling with treatment system & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6982
25 Aug 2009Incompleted application
Demolition of existing dwelling & construction of a two-storey dwelling & all associated site works including new waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6810
30 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse with sewage treatment unit and installation of sewage treatment unit to serve existing dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/6145
11 Jun 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and sewage treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/5918
23 Mar 2009Conditional
Construction of a cubicle house & ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4875
The 25 most recent of 48 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathcallan.
Recorded monuments
- CO077-058 Country house
Description
Late 18th/early 19th century, 2-storey gable-ended house. Entrance front (NE) of 3 bays, extended with addition of 1-bay 2-storey gabled wings. Central door with rectangular light; shouldered surround of cut limestone with prominent keystone. Projecting chimney (lower courses of stone, remainder brick) on NW gable of NW wing. 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
- House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Pair of semi-detached four-bay single-storey houses, built c. 1890, having recent flat-roofed and lean-to extensions to rear (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with render surrounds having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement timber panelled doors. Rendered boundary walls with square-profile piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gates to north and south side boundaries, and wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gates to north of site. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear of north house, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Stream running between two boundary walls to front (east) of site.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rathcallan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1507 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathcallan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rathcallan · Ráth Challainn
- Area
- 990,984 m² (99.1 ha, 244.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ightermurragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Ightermurragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,052 people lived in 1,085 households in the Ightermurragh electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohillane, Dromadda Beg, Dromadda East, Garrananassig, Knockglass, Lady's Bridge, Monacreagh, Parknahyla
- Placenames
- Rathcallan 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.