Rathbrackan

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbrackan, from 44 m² to 173,219 m² (17.32 ha, 42.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Rathbrackan 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 Rathbrackan 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 Rathbrackan.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-010 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. A large oval enclosure (c. 84m N-S; c. 52m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1.5m) with a berm (Wth 3m) evident from W-N-E. A report in 1986 (SMR file) recorded a shallow fosse running E-W through the monument, noting that it was related to field boundary, shown on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, that had been removed. The house shown on the map to the S of the boundary had also been removed. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised oval area (34m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8-0.85m) with a wide external fosse (Wth 6.5m; D 0.8-1m), which is identifiable from SE-S-W. The original entrance is not recognisable. A NE-SW field boundary divides the rath into unequal portions. The smaller portion, to the N, has been partially levelled. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-013 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’. The monument has been levelled and all that survives is the remains of a scarp (H 0.1-0.8m) from WSW–W–N and from E–SE–S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 February 2012

• LF010-014001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the base of an ENE-facing slope. This is the N example of two conjoined ringforts. It is separated from the S example (LF010-014002-) by its fosse. It comprises a raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed from SW-N-E by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.2-0.6m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1m). The shallow fosse (Wth 5-7m; D 0.2-0.6m) is evident all round. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

• LF010-014002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This is the S example of two conjoined ringforts and it is separated from the N one (LF010-014001-) by its fosse. It comprises a raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed from WSW-W-N by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.2-0.7m). Elsewhere the defining element is a low scarp (H 0.3-0.8m). The intervening shallow fosse (Wth c. 5m; D 0.2-0.4m) is visible from SW-W-N and from NE-E-SE. At E an outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.2-0.4m) and an outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.15-0.2m) are evident. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

• LF010-115 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture. This spring well is within a relatively modern stone setting. In 1837 O’Donovan recorded that this well retained ‘a name of the most remote antiquity, namely Tober Gamhna, or the Well of the Calf. It was said to be the source of Lough Gowna. According to a local man, Farrell Linchy who was almost 100 years old, it was ‘a well of great sanctity’ in the old days but it was ‘stopped up some years ago by the hand of cultivation (OSL, 4-5). No longer in use. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 June 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathbrackan, 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 Rathbrackan.

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 Rathbrackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Rathbrackan · Ráth Bhreacáin

Area

1,232,546 m² (123.25 ha, 304.57 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeylara, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Dalystown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

188 people lived in 62 households in the Dalystown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooey, Ballinulty Lower, Ballinulty Upper, Ballygilchrist, Ballymore, Gallid, Rathcor, Tober

Placenames

Rathbrackan 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.