Rathronan

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathronan, from 987 m² to 657,075 m² (65.71 ha, 162.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Rathronan 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 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND A

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200081

• 14 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOU

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171476

• 4 Aug 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171033

• 18 Jul 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOU

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170932

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 Rathronan.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-011 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a broad rise in a fairly level landscape. It is described as a castle in ruins on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Mulrankin was held by the Brown family from the 13th century at least (Brooks 1950, 34-5), but their main centre in the later middle ages was Mulrankin castle (WX047-031----). Rathronan, which is within the parish but c. 1.5km NW of Mulrankin, was probably established for a younger branch of the family. Nicholas Browne of Rathronan was listed as a gentleman in 1608, and in 1633 Nicholas Brown of Rathronan or Ballycrosse possessed 60 acres at Ballycrosse (Jeffrey 1979, 87). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Thomas Browne owned 60 acres and the castle at Rathronan (Simington 1953, 156). Rathronan passed to the Cliffe family in the later 17th century, but a branch of the Borwnes returned to Rathronan in 1851 (Browne and Whelan 1987, 479-80). The tower (ext. dims 7.1m NW-SE; c. 7m NE-SW; H c. 8m) is extensively rebuilt, but it survives to three storeys with few original features apart from a barrel-vault. A slit window on the NW side at the second floor is also original. The castle has false crenellations on the NW front, and it is incorporated in a thatched two storey house on its SW side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 October, 2013

• WX047-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gently rolling landscape. This is a D-shaped area (dims 52m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a low earthen scrub-covered bank (Wth c. 5m; H 1.2m) E-S, a straight N-S field bank at W and traces of a bank visible as differential vegetation growth N-E. There was no visible fosse or entrance, and the interior was planted with a root crop in 1988. The last remnant of the bank was removed in 1993 (Wexford People, 16-12-1993). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathronan, 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

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

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 Rathronan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rathronan · Ráth Rónáin

Area

842,949 m² (84.29 ha, 208.3 acres)

Civil parish

Mulrankin, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Bridgetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

963 people lived in 323 households in the Bridgetown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brideswell, Bridgetown North, Churchtown, Common, Moor, Mountcross, Oldhall, Rathyark, Shouks

Placenames

Rathronan 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.