Rathculbin

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathculbin, from 232 m² to 444,183 m² (44.42 ha, 109.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Rathculbin 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.

• 26 Jul 2023Refused

  for the retention of imported inert material from a slatted shed excavation elsewhere on the farm holding. For land reclamation works involving raising existing ground levels by c0.8m and associated works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360345

• 14 Jun 2022N/a

  for bank protection and stabilization works on both sides of the Kings River over a length of approximately 210 metres. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22383

• 9 Dec 2021N/a

  for bank protection and stabilization works in the townland of Rathculbin on both sides of the Kings River over a length of approximately 250 metres. An Appropriate Assessment screening Report will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 211008

• 24 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct (i) storage shed (ii) walled silage slab and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2033

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct (i) Roofed Drafting area with dairy room, office, plant room, slatted floor channel, collecting yard, extension to slatted tank, Meal bin & water storage tank (ii) loose shed and concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19506

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• KK027-025 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  On the summit of a low hill with good views to the N and W. The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Kells, Co. Kilkenny, depicts a substantial castle in 'Rathculbyne' with an adjacent gabled house with a chimney at one end (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). It is shown on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1948 revision as, 'Castle (in ruins)' and the 25-inch OS map indicates the N gable. Only the N gable (wall T 0.83m; surviving L 5.5m - E end is missing) and a short length of the W wall (L 1.55m) at the NW angle survives of a rectangular three-storey house, composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. It has a externally projecting chimney (Wth 3.4m; D 0.35m) roughly centrally placed in the gable, which is heavily ivy clad both internally and externally. Internally at first-floor level there are the remains of a small fireplace flanked to the E by a rectangular wall-cupboard. At second-floor features there are two poorly preserved windows (now collapsed) one on either side of the chimney breast and the fragmentary remains of a fireplace. According to local information the greater part of the E side of the house had collapsed in 1954 and the rubble subsequently removed. Also there had been a small archway adjoining the E side of the N gable and the area around the house was formerly cobbled (local information). The depiction on the Down Survey map would suggest that there is also a castle at this location which is no longer visible at ground level. See attached: KK027-025----_01 Extract from the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Kells, Co. Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) KK027-025----_02 N gable - exterior KK027-025----_03 N gable - interior KK027-025----_04 N gable - interior - location within yard Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 March 2023

• KK027-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Surrounded by pasture, the monument itself is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. It is not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, probably as it was located in a small tree plantation, however, a lime kiln and adjacent quarry are indicated immediately to the NW. The roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 48m) is indicated on the 1948 revision of the OS 6-inch map, and the quarry is shown as having encroached on the monument in the NW quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 March 2023

• KK027-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Surrounded by pasture, the monument itself is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. It is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as an irregularly shaped area and the 1948 revision as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). Another enclosure (KK027-028----) is located c. 45m to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 March 2023

• KK027-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Surrounded by pasture, the monument itself is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. It is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1948 revision as an irregularly shaped area (diam. c. 44m). The latter edition shows a deep fosse enclosing the monument from NW-N-SE and a pond immediately to the SW. Another enclosure (KK027-027----) is located c. 45m to the N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 March 2023

• KK027-067 Enclosure
  Description

  According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 324), ‘The townlands of Rathculbin and Spruce’s Hay made up the ancient parish of Rathculbin. This parish is mentioned in the Red Book of Ossory as Rathgulby, Ragulby and Rakylbyn. Soon after the Norman Invasion Rathculbin was granted to Ralph de Borard, who appropriated its free chapel (contulit liberam capellam praedictae villae de Rathgulby,) to the Priory of Kells…The chapel of Rathgulby, with its glebe, is mentioned among the possessions of Kells Priory in 1411’. The location of the church is unknown, however, Carrigan suggests several possibilities, including, ‘a very large circular rath in Rathculbin, about 4 acres in extent, and enclosed by an earthen rampart, which, though much obliterated, is still traceable. The public road from Mallardstown to Newtown chapel runs right through it, dividing it into two nearly equal parts. Within the circuit of the rath, in Mr. Hoyne’s yard [Hoynes?], are the remains of an old house, which was occupied by one Elliot about 1760’. Based on this description this 'large rath' or possible ecclesiastical enclosure (see KK027-067----) has been located to the farmyard on the N side of the road between Mallardstown and Newtown church and which also contains the ruins of a late 16th/early 17th-century house (KK027-025----). However, there is no visible trace of this enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 April 2023

• KK027-090 Enclosure
  Description

  Located c. 160m WSW of the cross-roads of Rathculbin, on the N side of the Mallardstown-Newtown church road and c. 30m E of the farmyard which contains the remains of a ruined late 16th/early 17th-century house (KK027-025----). A circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 50m), identified as a cropmark on satellite imagery (OS Ortho, imagery date 2004-2006; DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2011-2013). It is possible that this is the 'rath' which Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 324-5) describes as, ‘another rath in the townland [Rathculbin], in a large field at the cross-roads of Rathculbin, called Bawnarawha, or the Rath field. This rath is known to the old people as the “Rellig,” that is, the churchyard, and though its interior now presents no appearances of a churchyard, or of foundations of walls, there can be no question that it is the site of the ancient chapel of Rathculbin’. The 'rath' or burial ground described by Carrigan had previously been assigned the SMR no. (KK027-059002-) and, as it cannot be determined with certainty that these are the same monument, both records have been retained. See attached: KK027-090----_01 satellite imagery (OS Ortho, imagery date 2004-2006) KK027-090----_02 satellite imagery (DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2011-2013) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 April 2023

Architectural heritage

• Newtown Bridge, bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, pre-1840, on site. Random rubble stone walls with limestone ashlar triangular cut-waters to piers, and ivy-clad dressed limestone coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning Kings River with grass banks to river.

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 Rathculbin, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3410 (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 Rathculbin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathculbin · Ráth Cuilbin

Area

2,620,499 m² (262.05 ha, 647.54 acres)

Civil parish

Mallardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Kells

Electoral division

Mallardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

217 people lived in 80 households in the Mallardstown electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunemon, Caherlesk, Castle Eve, Goodwinsgarden, Mallardstown East, Mallardstown Great, Mallardstown Lower, Newtown (Baker), Spruceshay

Placenames

Rathculbin 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.