Rath

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 28 m² to 105,260 m² (10.53 ha, 26.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rath 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.

• 21 Jun 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the existing country museum building, an entrance hall, toilets, a cloakroom and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560365

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  construct an ESB substation and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560353

• 8 Jun 2021N/a

  develop a farm diversity project to include an organic store with shop facility, signage, carparking and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21421

• 4 May 2021N/a

  develop a farm diversity project to include an organic store with shop facility, signage, carparking and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21286

• 26 Apr 2021N/a

  for a farm diversity project to include an organic store with shop facility, signage, carparking and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21259

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  retain 6m pole, cameras, recording kiosk, ducting and associated site works for the purposes of community based CCTV system

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2120

• 15 Jan 2021N/a

  retain 6m pole, cameras, recording kiosk, ducting and associated site works for the purposes of community based CCTV system

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2111

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  144Kv or 466 No. Solar P.V. Panels (794sqm) on 2 existing buildings and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20291

• 16 Jul 2019N/a

  erect a machinery storage shed and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19403

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Nore/Abbeyleix Woods Complex 002076

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rath.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rath · An Ráth

Area

871,550 m² (87.16 ha, 215.36 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Dunmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore electoral division: 284 people in 93 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlewood, Coolcorberry, Course, Dunmore, Fermoyle, Watercastle

Placenames

Rath 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.