Rath

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 143 m² to 61,144 m² (6.11 ha, 15.11 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.

• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Apr 2026Refuse permission

  Permission is sought for the construction of a horse training facilit

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0311E

• 6 Mar 2026Invalid application due to site notice

  Construction of a horse training facility comprising of a 24 horse st

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0161E

• 17 Jul 2020Refuse permission

  The construction of a new two storey dwelling (280m²), a garage (44m²)

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0346

• 6 Dec 2017Grant permission

  Permission for the addition of a dormer window to the rear roof and mi

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17B/0285

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 Rath.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rath.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rath, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Rath · An Ráth

Area

676,409 m² (67.64 ha, 167.14 acres)

Civil parish

Balscaddan, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Balscadden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drummans, Milestown, Sevenparks (1st Division), Sevenparks (2nd Division), Sevenparks (3rd Division), Stadalt (Co. Meath), Stamullin, Stamullin (Co. Meath), Tobersool, Tobertaskin, Tobertown

Placenames

Rath 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.