Rathglass

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathglass, from 120 m² to 116,060 m² (11.61 ha, 28.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Rathglass 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 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) Alter and extend existing dwelling to include attic conversion, and (2) Carry out all ancillary works on site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460443

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  to (1) Retain Existing Dwelling House, (2) Retain existing domestic garage and home office, (3) Upgrade existing wastewater treatment system, and (4) Carry out all required ancillary works on site

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460048

• 16 Dec 2023N/a

  The application will consist of planning permission to (1) Retain Existing Dwelling House, (2) Retain Existing granny flat and domestic garage, (3) upgrade existing wastewater Treatment system, and (4) carry out all required ancillary works on site.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360355

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 Rathglass.

Recorded monuments

• SL012-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in lowlying pasture c. 150m from the S shore of Sligo Bay. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 10m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m at S, 0.8m at NE). There are breaks in bank at N (Wth 1.4m) and W (Wth 4). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-015 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in lowlying pasture c. 120m from the S shore of Sligo Bay. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Circular mound (diam. 26m at base, c. 6m at top; H 3.7m at N, 3.4m at S) of stone and sand. The mound may originally have been flat-topped but it has been partly quarried out on the E side. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-065 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the E side of the top a low ridge in pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown on the 1913 edition as a shallow hachured arc curving E-SW. This enclosure has been levelled and only its outline is now identifiable. Remains comprise a slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m), most clearly defined at E-SE by a slight scarp incorporated into a naturally-occurring slope. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-066001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the E edge of a low rise in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 25m E-W) defined by a scarp (ext. H 0.5 at W, 0.8-1m at E). At the base of the scarp at S is a ditch (Wth. 2.8-3.2m; D 0.6m) of uncertain antiquity. In the E half of the interior there is a low scarp, curving NE-SE, to E of which there is a drop in interior ground level of 0.5m. Centrally located within the interior is a deep pit (11m E-W; 4-5m N-S; D 1.3m), possibly a collapsed souterrain (SL012-066002-). The rath is bisected roughly centrally by an E-W field fence. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-066002 Souterrain
  Description

  At a rath (SL012-066001-). Centrally located within the interior of the rath is a deep pit (11m E-W; 4-5m N-S; D 1.3m) which is overgrown with scrub. This may mark the site of a collapsed souterrain. Alternatively it may be a relatively modern quarry. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathglass, 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 Rathglass.

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 Rathglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rathglass · An Ráth Ghlas

Area

962,368 m² (96.24 ha, 237.81 acres)

Civil parish

Templeboy, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Templeboy North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 112 households in the Templeboy North electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgivna, Ballygreighan, Doonmadden, Kilrusheighter

Placenames

Rathglass 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.