Rathhugh

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathhugh, from 2,422 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 186,392 m² (18.64 ha, 46.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Rathhugh 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.

• 16 Dec 2019Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new forestry road entrance including all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19502

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 Rathhugh.

Recorded monuments

• SL005-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on level summit broad of broad E-W orientated ridge in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 8.55m; int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. A drystone field wall lies along the outer face of the bank S-WNW and on the crest of the bank WNW-NE. A N-S orientated field wall skirts the external base of the bank NE-ESE and a WNW-ESE orientated field wall links to the bank at WNW. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-175 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built into N-facing slope of a natural terrace, in pasture. A cashel (SL005-052----) is located 180m to the NE. D-shaped structure (max. ext. dims. 2.75m N-S; 2.35m E-W), with the straight vertical side (Wth 1.4; H 0.5m) facing N, constructed of roughly quarried sandstone blocks. The bowl is infilled (int. diam. 1.05m) with rubble stone and earth and the edges, with the exception of the straight side, are covered by a scarp (ext. H 0.4m) of earth and rubble limestone. The stoking hole (H 0.1m; Wth 0.2m) is located at the central base of the N side at the rear of a rectangular lintelled recess (Wth 0.5m; H 0.3m). A short length of walling (L 0.4m; Wth 0.65m) extends N from the E end of the N side of the kiln. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-span limestone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1830. Uncoursed rubble walling rising uninterrupted to uncapped low parapets. Semi-circular arches, roughly-dressed voussoirs, semi-circular battered cutwaters to both sides. Single carriageway deck, gravelled verges. Spans south-east to north-west over narrow stream. Located in flat scenic landscape.

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 Rathhugh, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathhugh · Ráth Aodha

Area

941,212 m² (94.12 ha, 232.58 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Cliffony South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 216 households in the Cliffony South electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derry, Drumfad, Gortaderry, Kilcat, Kiltykere, Rathfrask

Placenames

Rathhugh 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.