Rathcor

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcor, from 751 m² to 148,594 m² (14.86 ha, 36.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Rathcor 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.

• 25 Feb 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660062

• 13 Nov 2025Refused

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560264

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a new slatted shed and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560141

• 8 May 2025Refused

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560084

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 Rathcor.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Within a slightly waterlogged hollow. Not marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A large raised oval area (99m E-W; 84m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-2m) with an external fosse (Wth 4.5-8.2m; D 0.3-0.5m), which is identifiable from SSW-W-N. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised subcircular area (35m N-S; 33.5m E-W) enclosed at NE by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6m; H 0.3-0.5m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1m). A wide external fosse (Wth 6.3-7m; D 0.2-1.4m) survives from S-N-NE . The original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a wide shallow depression, of unknown significance, at the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

• LF010-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf of level ground on an E-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed at SW by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 6-7m; H 0.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.5-2.2m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse from E-S-W, which has since been infilled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll in otherwise level pasture. A raised subcircular area (48m E-W; 42m N-S) enclosed from SW-WSW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; H 0.3m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1.15m). A shallow external fosse (Wth 7.1m; D 0.3m) survives from NW-N-E. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

• LF010-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This monument has been levelled. It is now divided into two approximately equal portions by a NW-SE field boundary. The circuit to the SW of this boundary is marked by a low but well-defined scarp (H 0.1-0.45m). No visible surface trace survives to the NE of it. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 October 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathcor, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathcor · An Ráth Corr

Area

664,431 m² (66.44 ha, 164.18 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, 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

Ballygilchrist, Ballymore, Gallid, Rathbrackan

Placenames

Rathcor 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.