Rathard

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathard, from 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) to 148,460 m² (14.85 ha, 36.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rathard 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.

• 15 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2134

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 Rathard.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E-facing slope of hill in undulating terrain. Field immediately E of ringfort under tillage, field in which ringfort is situated is under grass. Interior overgrown with nettles and scrub, though there are clear areas under grass. Roughly circular enclosure (diam. 27m NW-SE), defined by high, substantial round-topped bank (Wth 2.3-2.7m crest, 3.7--5m base; int. H 0.48-0.95m; H above fosse 1.36-2.1m; flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.3-3.1m); outer bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 1.6-3.7m base; ext. H 0.23m) measurements for NW and SE quadrants respectively. Possible outer bank, may be field boundary respecting existing monument, unusually wide intervening area if this is an outer bank. Outer bank terminates due S. Gap in inner bank (Wth 2m) in SSE possibly original entrance. Field boundary runs roughly N-S kinks around E quadrant from SSE to NNE, field boundary continues NW-SE, outer bank continues from due N to W to S. Gap (Wth 1.4m) in inner bank NNE which possible due to cattle erosion. Internal stone revetment on inner bank in NW. SW half of ringfort is heavily overgrown with nettles and dense scrub. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On crest of broad, flat-topped hill, enclosed by tillage. Bivallate monument (overall diam. 72m N-S; 71m E-W), banks heavily overgrown with scrub, interior nettle and bramble filled. Entrance (Wth 1.6m) in WSW quad. Inner bank (Wth 5m base; int. H 1.16m; H above fosse 1.7m) is round-topped, narrower than outer bank. Intervening flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2m); outer bank is very broad and flat-topped (Wth 5m crest; H above fosse 1.71m; H above ext. 1.3m). According to landowner years ago he used to drive a tractor along the top of the outer bank when it was clear of vegetation. N quadrant located N of field boundary which is also a parish and townland boundary. NE section part of outer bank and possibly inner bank has been levelled, interior very overgrown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 February 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathard, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rathard · An Ráth Ard

Area

469,220 m² (46.92 ha, 115.95 acres)

Civil parish

Mortlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Mortlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,689 people lived in 568 households in the Mortlestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knocknaboha, Mortlestown, Mortlestown Little, Whiteland, Woodinstown

Placenames

Rathard 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.