Rathmore

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 73,921 m² (7.39 ha, 18.27 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.

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  permission consisting of; the demolition of an existing bungalow and the construction of a four bedroomed bungalow, wastewater treatment system, boundary fencing, and all associated site works The height of the new dwelling is 6.95m

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360259

• 11 Jan 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a free range broiler type poultry house. The proposal includes a new site entrance, vertical feed silo, dethatched storage shed & underground washings tank, together with other associated ancillary site works. The application includes a Site Specific Flood Risk Assessment, Natura Impact Statement & a Nutrient Management Assessment Significant Further information relates to, Natura Impact Statement, Site location Map, a Site Layout map, Proposed storage shed

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 237

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  Demolish existing dwelling and replace with a dormer dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21559

• 13 Mar 2017N/a

  Permission for the development which will consist of an extension to side of dwelling previously granted under reference no 16/264 and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17111

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

• MO028-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a col with valleys to the S and E and higher ground to the SE, and SW-N-NE. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m WNW-ESE; 31.2m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.5m) and hedge W-N-SSE, which is almost reduced to an external scarp (at SW: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 3m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.6m) E-SW, and there are entrances at SE (Wth 4.3m) and NW (Wth 4.7m), both of which appear to be modern. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

• MO028-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the lower SE-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE spur. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curved field bank SW-N-E on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by traces of a low bank and fosse, with the bank incorporated into a curved field bank NNW-NE (Chord c. 25m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

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 5 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 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. Monaghan.

Name

Rathmore · An Ráth Mór

Area

644,597 m² (64.46 ha, 159.28 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Crossalare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

827 people lived in 241 households in the Crossalare electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corleck, Corlygorm, Lisnagunnion, Monalia, Tullyvaragh Lower

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.