Rathbaun

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbaun, from 95 m² to 272,189 m² (27.22 ha, 67.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Rathbaun 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.

• 17 Oct 2025N/a

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, new entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system & soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Carlow County Council, 2560315

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  alterations to previously granted planning application PL. No. 23/60002 to include change of roof type and change to rear elevation, and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560100

• 30 Mar 2025Conditional

  to renovate and to construct an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560078

• 30 May 2023Conditional

  a ten-year planning permission for a solar energy development with a total site area of 77 hectares comprising (i) photovoltaic solar panels on steel mounting frames; (ii) electrical inverters; (iii) electrical power stations; (iv) underground electrical and communications cabling; (v) containerised battery energy storage facility; (vi) the upgrade of 2 no. disused site entrances, decommissioning of 2 no. existing site entrances and development of 1 no. new site entrance; (vii) on-site access tracks; (viii) a temporary construction compound; (ix) security fencing and security gates; (x) pole-mounted security cameras; and (xi) all associated site and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report and an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2392

• 11 Jan 2023Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to my existing garage, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360002

• 24 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission is sought to retain floor slab as constructed and full planning permission is sought for the completion of dwelling house as granted under PL Ref:17/180, full planning permission is sought for the alteration of site boundary as granted under same, all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22215

• 14 Feb 2019Conditional

  demolition of an existing domestic shed and permission for the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1950

• 11 Jul 2017Refused

  permission for the construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, new entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17217

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, uograding of existing entrance, connection to services, a domestic garage and all associated site work

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 17180

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 Rathbaun.

Recorded monuments

• CW008-023 Earthwork
  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: 15 April 2011 Revised by: Claire Breen Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as oval wooded area enclosed by bank and on 1939 OS 6" map as raised oval planted area (dims. c. 70m N-S x 50m E-W). Possible plantation. No visible surface trace. Aerial photograph (GB95.FV.31) shows cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing eastwards into a curvilinear annexe defined by a narrower fosse. A narrow curved fosse is located within the interior of the main enclosure. A cropmark of a crescentic feature is located immediately outside the south-west corner of the main enclosure, function and context unknown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathbaun, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2659 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rathbaun · Ráth Mheoin

Area

2,412,205 m² (241.22 ha, 596.07 acres)

Civil parish

Grangeford, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Grangeford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

589 people lived in 193 households in the Grangeford electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunogephlure, Cannonsquarter, Castlemore, Farranaphlure, Grangeford Old, Slaneyquarter

Placenames

Rathbaun 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.