Rathglass

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathglass, from 109 m² to 157,097 m² (15.71 ha, 38.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathglass 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  RETENTION for: (1) the additional first-floor windows to the front elevation, (2) a ground floor front bay window, (3) the altered window configurations to northwest and southeast gables, (4) the location and design of the domestic garage and lean-to shed, (5) the revised entrance and driveway location, (6) the revised location and design of the raised percolation area and intermittent filter modules and, PERMISSION to: (7) Replace the existing septic tank with a packaged wastewater treatment system, (8) carry out of all ancillary site works at Rathglass Td., Enniscrone, Co. Sligo, F26 KC84.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660343

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  to Retain: (1) the additional first-floor windows to the front elevation, (2) a ground floor front bay window, (3) the altered window configurations to northwest and southeast gables, (4) the location and design of the domestic garage and lean-to shed, (5) the revised entrance and driveway location, (6) the revised location and design of the raised percolation area and intermittent filter modules and, (7) the carrying out of all ancillary site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660213

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  intend to apply for planning permission for (1) the construction of a new waste water treatment system and percolation area (2) and all associated site works all at Rathglass, Enniscrone, County Sligo.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560216

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  single storey dwelling house with roof/attic space accommodation, complete with separate garage, boundary fencing, septic system and percolation area, complete with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 256

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the following: construct dwelling house, construct domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360201

• 19 Aug 2019N/a

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, construct domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19343

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 Rathglass.

Recorded monuments

• SL022-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on an area of level ground in undulating pasture. Oval area (30m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 5.3-5.7m; int. H 1.5-1.8m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m) outside which at SSE-WNW is an external fosse (Wth 2.4m). At the outer foot of the fosse at SSE-WNW is a second bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.5m) and a third bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m). There is a break (Wth 3m) in the inner bank at E. At SW there is a another break (Wth 3.5-4m) in the inner bank and corresponing breaks in the two outer banks. Adjacent to this in the interior is an irregularly-shaped sod-covered mound (9.8m N-S; 8.8m E-W - H 1.8m). Located against the inner face of the bank at NE and S are two hollows (max dim. c. 6-8m; D 0.3-0.5m). The mound and and hollows appear to be the result of relatively modern disturbance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL022-014001 Font (present location)
  Description

  In a modern Catholic Church at Corbally. Rectangular stone block (0.45m x 0.42m; H 0.2m) with circular hollow in upper edge (diam. 0.29m; D 0.14m). The original location (SL022-015003-) of this font was in Killanley Church (SL022-015001-) (Mary Timoney 1989, pers. comm.). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL022-014002 Cross (present location)
  Description

  In a modern Catholic church at Corbally. Cross constructed from a single block of stone (H 0.76m; max. Wth. at arms. 0.42m; T 0.14-0.16m) with carvings in relief on both faces, and a short tang (D 0.05m) at the base of the cross. On one side is a depiction of the crucifixion. The carving of the figure of Christ shows simplified facial features and a loin cloth. Nails are shown piercing each hand and a single nail pierces the overlapping feet. Beneath the feet is a skull. On the other side of the cross is a depiction of a ladder, which extends the full length of the cross, and hammer and tongs, which are carved on one arm of the cross. The original location (SL0016-071----) of the cross is said to be in Carrowcardin townland where a church, marked 'R. C. Chapel' is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (Mary Timoney 1989, pers. comm.). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL022-024 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in lowlying, poorly-drained pasture adjacent to a modern drain. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Low, approx. kidney-shaped, mound (dims. 12.8m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE - H 0.7m) largely composed of small sandstone fragments in a black soil matrix. The open side is at NW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rathglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rathglass · An Ráth Ghlas

Area

1,357,007 m² (135.7 ha, 335.32 acres)

Civil parish

Castleconor, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Castleconor West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleconor West electoral division: 1,095 people in 379 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attichree, Corbally, Cottlestown, Emlymoran, Fiddaun

Placenames

Rathglass 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.