Rathshillane

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathshillane, from 1,616 m² to 102,707 m² (10.27 ha, 25.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Rathshillane 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 Rathshillane 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lady's Island Lake SAC 000704
• Special Protection Area: Lady's Island Lake SPA 004009
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lady's Island Lake 000704

Recorded monuments

• WX053-011 House - fortified house
  Description

  This house is located on a slight S-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 100m to the N and the W shore of Lady’s Island Lough is c. 250m to the E. The earliest reference is from 1616 when Robert French was seized of the castle at Rathshillane (Jeffrey 1979, 35). He was probably descended from the French family of Ballytory (WX048-042----), which is c. 850m to the N. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Robert Ellyott, an Irish Papist, owned 54 acres at Rathsheland c. 1640 (Simington 1953, 305), and Robert Elliott of Ratilane is listed for transplantation with eight dependents in 1653 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 502). By the Act of Settlement (1666) 54 acres at Rashillan was bestowed on Constantine Neale together with about 600 acres elsewhere in Tacumshin parish (Hore 1921, 50). This is a rectangular building of three storeys (ext. dims 13.1m N-S; 7.45m E-W) with granite quoins, stepped crenellations, and machicolations at the NE and SW angles. The entrance doorway (Wth 1.14m; H 1.92m) with a segmental arch in granite and a recess for a plaque (Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m) above it is towards the S end of the E wall. The doorframe has an outer rebate and may have had a yett, but it is protected by a machicolation on the parapet and inside there are two draw-bar sockets. The doorway opens directly into the ground floor, which has no masonry internal divisions. There are three rectangular windows in lintelled recesses on the W wall, while a fourth opening may have been a doorway. Apart from the doorway there are two openings on the E wall, and one on the N wall. There is a total of fifteen gun-loops in the walls (T 0.85-0.95m) at the ground floor, three of them operated from a recess (Wth 0.5m; H 0.48m) just N of the doorway in the E wall, and with two converging on the SW, NW and NE angles. A garderobe chute is broken out at the SW angle and its chamber was probably at the second floor, but it is not contained within the walls. There are no internal masonry divisions, and there is no vaulting, or evidence of a stairs. A large part of the S wall is missing, and evidence of a ground-floor fireplace may be missing here. The first floor has three rectangular windows, one with two lights, and another with three, and a fireplace with a segmental arch (Wth 1.74m) in the W wall. The N wall has a two-light rectangular window and a fireplace (Wth 1.5m), and the E wall has two two-light rectangular windows. The damaged S wall has a single surviving light, but no corbels to support the floor are evident anywhere. The second floor was supported on corbels in the E and W walls, and has a fireplace and two blocked rectangular windows in the E wall. There is a blocked two-light rectangular window at the S end of the W wall and a single light at the N end, while there is a double-light rectangular window in the N wall. The house is situated at NE corner of a square enclosure (dims. c. 40m x 40m), visible as a vegetation mark on aerial photographs (ASIAP WX, 72, 32-3), but this may be the remnants of a field marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The house was conserved as a dwelling in 2003 when archaeological testing (03E0223) identified a cobbled surface within the house, which was built on a layer of introduced clay. An E-W gully (Wth 0.5m; D 0.7m plus) c. 20m S of the house is probably a field drain associated with the mapped field bank (Ó Drisceoil 2003, 5; 2006). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 25 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathshillane, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathshillane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rathshillane · Ráth Síoláin

Area

395,264 m² (39.53 ha, 97.67 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytory Lower, Reedstown, Yoletown

Placenames

Rathshillane 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.