Rapla North

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rapla North, from 40 m² to 269,516 m² (26.95 ha, 66.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Rapla North 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rapla North in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rapla North.

Recorded monuments

• TN015-095001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a hilltop, the summit of which appears to be scarped to form a roughly circular platform (dims. 48m N-S; 56m E-W; H 1.15m) for the castle. The site is indicated as being levelled on both the 1st and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch maps and is mentioned in the Civil Survey as being 'a demolished Castle; the old rotten. Walls standing with two Cabbins' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 252). No visible trace survives above ground level. The platform on which it stood has been much disturbed in recent years, partially levelled and quarried, giving an uneven surface. A stone, barrel-vaulted icehouse was built into the W side of the platform and is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-095002 Mound
  Description

  Platform described under tower house site entry TN015-095001. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Rapla House, icehouse, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Icehouse, built c.1760, comprising rubble limestone masonry walls with barrel-vaulted roof. Square-headed entrance in north gable.

• Rapla House, outbuilding, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Outbuildings of now-demolished Rapla House, built c.1760, comprising central courtyard with ranges to north, west and south. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rubble limestone walls. Multiple-bay two-storey north range, now partly in use as house Building has rendered chimneystacks and square-headed openings having replacement timber windows, cut limestone sills and dressed limestone voussoirs, and timber panelled door with carved limestone surround with keystone. Building has advanced three-bay part to west containing integral carriage arch converted to window. Single and two-storey west range has rendered rubble limestone walls, brick and dressed limestone carriage arches and doorways with cut limestone surrounds with keystones and timber battened doors. South range has rendered rubble walls. Dressed limestone piers to entrance gateway having cast-iron gates. Cut-stone piers to road entrance with wheel guards.

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 Rapla North, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rapla North · An Raplach Thuaidh

Area

664,979 m² (66.5 ha, 164.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilruane, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Nenagh Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,980 people lived in 694 households in the Nenagh Rural electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinwear, Ballymacue, Ballynamurragh South, Clashnagraun, Kyle, Rapla

Placenames

Rapla North 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.