Rathmore

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 26 m² to 254,229 m² (25.42 ha, 62.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Rathmore 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.

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460387

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  construct single storey private dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicle entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2485

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  change house design from previously granted permission 22-651

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360341

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  construct new dwelling and domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22651

• 6 May 2020Conditional

  retain dwelling and attached garage as constructed, partially demolish same to enable modification and construct new extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20211

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  construct extensions to the sides of an existing dwelling house, permission is also sought to alter the front elevation of the existing dwelling house and to construct a new domestic shed along with all ancillary site services and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18740

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 Rathmore.

Recorded monuments

• LA014-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 1.4m, int. H c. 1.5m, ext. H c. 1.9m), and external fosse (Wth c. 2.8m) from NE-W. No evidence of original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA014-096 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BM.22) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 05 December 2009 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathmore, 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

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

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.

• Rathmore, Stradbally8 sales

Name

Rathmore · An Ráth Mhór

Area

1,658,257 m² (165.83 ha, 409.76 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Stradbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,912 people lived in 725 households in the Stradbally electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaddock, Ballynowlan, Garrans, Kilrory, Knocknambraher, Newtown, Park Lower, Stradbally

Placenames

Rathmore 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.