Rathcahill

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcahill, from 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 189,038 m² (18.9 ha, 46.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Rathcahill 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.

• 6 May 2024Conditional

  alterations and extension to existing garage including raised roof height, reversed roof angle, additional window and door, sliding doors instead of roller doors, additional floor area including attached extra open storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460159

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 Rathcahill.

Recorded monuments

• OF042-001 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Site of a landscape feature in the form of a Ha-ha in front of Rathcahill House, post-1700 date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathcahill, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathcahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Rathcahill · Ráth Chathail

Area

751,598 m² (75.16 ha, 185.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmurryely, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Ballincor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

185 people lived in 63 households in the Ballincor electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy, Ballincor Demesne, Curralanty, Galbally, Gortavally, Kilmurryely, Moneyshingaun, Tonagh

Placenames

Rathcahill 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.