Rathdaniel

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathdaniel, from 47 m² to 316,108 m² (31.61 ha, 78.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Rathdaniel 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  the internal modifications, renovation and single storey extension to the side and rear of an existing bungalow dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660085

• 24 Mar 2026N/a

  the internal modifications, renovation and single storey extension to the side and rear of an existing bungalow dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660075

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 Rathdaniel.

Recorded monuments

• CW003-008001 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 16 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Traces of slight fosse (Wth 3m; D c. 0.4m) apparently enclosing large polygonal area, probably a graveyard (CW003-008002-). Known as 'Church'. Skulls found at S of field c. 1910.

• CW003-008002 Graveyard
  Description

  Traces of slight fosse (Wth 3m; D c. 0.4m) apparently enclosing large polygonal area, probably a graveyard (CW003-008002-). Locally known as 'Church', probably the site of a church (CW003-008001-) though there are no visible traces above ground. Skulls found at S of field c. 1910. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW003-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Historic Monument No. HM00334, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. Circular area (diam. 50m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse, best preserved S-W-N. Inner bank rises above interior (c. 0.5m), and above fosse base (max. 4.5m). Entrance not identifiable.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathdaniel, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathdaniel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Rathdaniel · Ráth Donnaíl

Area

2,387,619 m² (238.76 ha, 589.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kineagh, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Kineagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

371 people lived in 132 households in the Kineagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhacket Upper, Phillipstown, Raheenadaw, Rathmore, Ricketstown South

Placenames

Rathdaniel 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.