Rathmore

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 798 m² to 169,171 m² (16.92 ha, 41.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• 22 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Outline Planning Permission for the demolition of a structurally compromised

  Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20250905

• 1 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of house type to that granted under planning permission

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240228

• 13 Feb 2024N/a

  Permission for alterations to house already permitted under planning no.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240138

• 6 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission consequent to grant of outline planning permission 20211985

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230210

• 23 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a metal storage shed and associated hardcore

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221731

• 16 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached g

  Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20211985

• 12 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A GRAIN STORAGE SHED, BALE STORAGE SHED, CONCRETE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180026

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

• WX048-028002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AIC 42). It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. The rath sites (WX048-028001-; WX048-028004-; WX048-028003-) are nearby within 100-200m E-S-W. 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: 7 January 2014 Amended: 1 May, 2014

• WX048-028003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYK 4). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The rath sites (WX048-028001-; WX048-028004-; WX048-028002-) are nearby within 100-200m S-W. 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: 7 January 2014 Amended: 1 May, 2014

• WX048-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. An enclosure is marked as an arc of a bank (C c. 40m) NW-NE on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It was described as a large ringfort (MacLeighim 1920, 137) but only part of the bank (H c. 1.5m) remained (OSFM 1940). It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop but it can be seen as a cropmark enclosure (diam; c. 60m) on aerial photographs (MM (10) 22-4). 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: 8 January 2014

• WX048-030001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. This is probably a Catholic church listed by Synnott c. 1680 (Hore 1862, 68; 1921, 60) as a chapel dedicated to St George. The foundations of a rectangular structure (ext. dims 9m E-W; 4m N-S) are within a subrectangular grass-covered area with some trees (dims. 29m E-W; 12m N-S) defined by a straight road bank at W, a curved field bank and townland boundary with Ballydungan townland and Kilscoran parish at N, and a low bank (Wth 1 2m; H 0.3-0.5m) at S. There are no indications of burial, so the church may have been a chapel-of-ease to the parish churches of Kilscoran (WX048-014001-) c. 1.6km to the N and St. Iberius (WX048-045001-) c. 1.3km to the S. 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: 8 January 2014

• WX048-030002 Churchyard
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. This chapel-of-ease (WX048-030001-) to the parish churches of Kilscoran (WX048-014001-) c. 1.6km to the N and St. Iberius (WX048-045001-) c. 1.3km to the S is within a subrectangular grass-covered area with some trees (dims. 29m E-W; 12m N-S) defined by a straight road bank at W, a curved field bank and townland boundary with Ballydungan townland and Kilscoran parish at N, and a low bank (Wth 1-2m; H 0.3-0.5m) at S. There is no evidence of burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 January, 2014

• WX048-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gently rolling landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AVK 35). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 8 January, 2014

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 20 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 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.

No address of the register names Rathmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rathmore · An Ráth Mór

Area

493,200 m² (49.32 ha, 121.87 acres)

Civil parish

St. Iberius, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Kilscoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,073 people lived in 388 households in the Kilscoran electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughmore, Ballyconor Little, Ballydungan, Gorteencrin, Grange, Kisha, Newtown, Stonyford

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.