Rathmanoo

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmanoo, from 164 m² to 375,862 m² (37.59 ha, 92.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Dec 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: (1) to construct a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, (3) to make a new entrance onto the road including entrance walls, gates and piers, (4) all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561326

• 27 Nov 2025N/a

  The development will consist of the following: (1) to construct a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, (3) to make a new entrance onto the road including entrance walls, gates and piers, (4) all ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561288

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  planning permission for the following works; (a) construct an external underground slatted tank and concrete feed apron to rear and side of existing cubicle and dairy shed, (b) to extend existing cubicle shed, (c) to install additional cubicles in said cubicle shed including all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21828

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 Rathmanoo.

Recorded monuments

• ME005-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the N summit of a NNW-SSE ridge. It is not recorded on any OS map. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 43m N-S; 17m E-W) sloping down to the S. It is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 3.8m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) NNW-E-SSE backing onto a NNNW-SSE field bank at W with no evidence of a monument W of the field bank. There is no visible fosse or entrance but it is probably a rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 5 September 2018

• ME005-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a summit of a NNW-SSE ridge. This is a raised but overgrown circular area (diam. c.30-35m) defined by an overgrown scarp (at NE: H 1.7m) separated by a fosse (at NE: Wth of top 5.4m; Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 1.4m) from an outer bank (at NE: Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1.8m; ext. H 0.5m). An original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 5 September 2018

• ME005-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a raised circular and grass-covered platform (diam. 55m NNE-SSW; c. 50m NW-SE) that slopes down to the S (H c. 2m) defined by a by an earthen bank (Wth of base 5-6m; int. H 0.3m at S to 1.1m at N; ext. H 1.6-2m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 0.5m at SSE to 1.3m; at NNW) from a largely overgrown outer bank (Wth of base 4-5m; ext. H 1.5m at NNW) that only survives SE-W-N as a field bank with an outer drain. The ramp entrance (Wth of base 2.9m) and causeway (H 0.6m) are at SSE. A NW-SE field bank that overlay the monument has been removed from the platform but is extant in the fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 5 September 2018 Amended; 14 December 2022

• ME005-109 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated in a small hollow with a small oval lake (dims c. 100m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) c. 80m to the S and another occasional lake (dims c. 150m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) c. 60m to the E.A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on OSI aerial images (1995), which may be a rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathmanoo, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathmanoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Rathmanoo

Area

1,563,245 m² (156.32 ha, 386.29 acres)

Civil parish

Moynalty, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Moynalty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

650 people lived in 234 households in the Moynalty electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickspringan, Curraghtown, Horath, Moat, Newrath, Screeboge, Walterstown

Placenames

Rathmanoo 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.