Rathmoney

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmoney, from 716 m² to 68,069 m² (6.81 ha, 16.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Rathmoney 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 Rathmoney 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 Rathmoney.

Recorded monuments

• SL021-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In poor pasture, on a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 23m N-S), covered with overgrowth, enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.4m; H 1.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m). Another rath (SL021-075----) lies c. 10m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL021-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In poor pasture, on the gentle W-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 27m), covered with overgrowth, defined by a scarp (H 0.8m) along the W, N and E arcs and by faint traces of a bank (int. H 0.2m) along the S arc. An external fosse (Wth 3m) is evident all round. A possible entrance is at SE. A possible outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.6m) is evident NW-NE. A N-S Field boundary lies immediately to E. Another rath (SL021-074----) lies c. 10m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL021-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge. A raised circular area (47m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.6m). A N-S field boundary crosses the edge of the scarp at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL021-215 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on the gentle S-facing slope of an E-W ridge, bordering the N side of a small, shallow valley. Two raths are located immediately upslope, crowning the top of the ridge, one (MA021-074----) 25m to N, and the other (SL021-075----) 40m to NNE. A third rath (SL021-076----) is located 90m to SSE on top of the low ridge which defines the S side of the valley. An E−W drain cuts through the wet, rushy ground in the base of the valley. This enclosure is not indicated on the 1836 and 1913 OS 6-inch maps. It is visible on current aerial mapping. It consists of a circular area (30m E−W; 28m N−S) defined by a levelled bank. At ground level the bank can be traced as a barely discernible, broad low undulation (Wth 3.4-4m). It is almost entirely obliterated at E. Outside the bank on the W−N there is a hint of a depression/cropmark (Wth c. 3m), marked by soft, poached ground and a growth of yellower grass; this may indicate an enclosing fosse. The interior is not raised relative to exterior ground level; it mirrors the natural contours of the ridge slope, exhibiting a gentle slope down from N to centre, where it levels out. Although located in close proximity to three raths, this enclosure differs from them in its siting and morphology: it is located on the slope rather than on top of the ridge, and its interior is not raised relative to exterior ground level. It may be a rath or it may be an enclosure dating to an earlier period. Attached images: SL021-215---_01.JPG -viewed from E SL021-215---_01.JPG -viewed from S, with two raths (SL021-074----; SL021-075----) on crest of ridge in background. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 November 2018

• SL021-216 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on the narrow, level top of a steep-sided E−W ridge, in an area of hilly, undulating terrain interspersed with damp valleys. It is sited at the highest point of the ridge, and there are extensive views in all directions, with many natural landmarks clearly visible on the horizon: Carrowkeel and Kesh Corran Mountains to S, Knocknashee to SW, the Ox Mountains to W, Ben Bulbin and the Dartry Mountains at N−NE. This enclosure is not indicated on the 1836 and 1913 OS 6-inch maps. It is visible as an arc of bank on current aerial mapping. An arc (C. 24.5m NE−SW) of upstanding bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.75m) curves SW−N, and appears to represent the W half of a circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m). There is, however, no trace at ground level or in aerial views of the E half of the enclosure. The bank has broadly slumped sides: the external slope is quite pronounced, especially at SW; the internal slope is low and merges seamlessly with surrounding ground. A section (L 4-5m) of the bank at NW is lower than the rest. The SW terminal of the bank coincides with the break of slope of the ridge top, where ground falls away very steeply. Outside the bank there is a slight depression (Wth 2-2.5m) marked by soft, rush-grown ground; this may indicate the presence of a fosse. Remnants of cultivation ridges traverse the ridge top on a roughly N−S axis, including the area that would have encompassed the enclosure interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathmoney, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathmoney · Ráth Uí Mhaolmhána

Area

608,866 m² (60.89 ha, 150.45 acres)

Civil parish

Killerry, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballintogher West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

457 people lived in 148 households in the Ballintogher West electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartrontaylor, Clooneally, Drumcondra, Knocknageeha, Woodfield

Placenames

Rathmoney 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.