Rathkea

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathkea, from 1,014 m² to 130,333 m² (13.03 ha, 32.21 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 Rathkea 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.

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  the two extensions to dwelling, pitched roof on front porch, open storage area, open canopy, septic tank, upgrade of septic tank to waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560839

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560795

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  demolition of 2 sheds and haybarn, partially completed extension, raising walls of dwelling and construction of new roof and windows to roof and gable ends of dwelling and associated site works and PERMISSION to extend and renovate existing dwelling, install waste water treatment system and percolation area and to modify existing vehicular entrance

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460992

• 22 Sept 2021Conditional

  works carried out to date to construct a single storey side and rear extension which are not covered by previous planning permission reference 19601322, and PERMISSION to complete said works in accordance with revised drawings and documentation now being proposed and all associated ancillary works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211407

• 27 Nov 2019Conditional

  renovation of the existing dwelling house (including to carry out some minor alterations to same), to construct a single-storey side and rear extension, to carry out minor alterations to the existing front boundary and site entrance and to also upgrade the existing on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system serving the existing dwelling house and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601322

• 8 Jun 2018Conditional

  (i) to extend an existing dwelling in conjunction with minor elevational amendments to existing elevations to accommodate the proposed extension including new roof windows over existing kitchen/dining area and (ii) for a proposed garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600742

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 Rathkea.

Recorded monuments

• TS066-114 Mound
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 12.7m) defined by steep scarp (Wth 7m, H 2.6m at S; Wth 5.7, H 2.25m at N; Wth 6.25, H 2.25m at E; Wth 6.4, H 2.15m at W). Large mature sycamore tree growing out of base of scarp at S. Grass covered, but eroded by livestock. Field boundary to W has been removed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathkea, 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 Rathkea.

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

Name

Rathkea · Ráth Cae

Area

1,142,717 m² (114.27 ha, 282.37 acres)

Civil parish

Bruis, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Bruis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

333 people lived in 116 households in the Bruis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardavullane, Ballinleenty, Ballynahow, Bruis, Shrough, Toor

Placenames

Rathkea 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.