Rathhugh
Townland in the civil parish of Ahamlish, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ráth Aodha
- Area
- 94.1 ha
- 233 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 22,524 m² (2.25 ha, 5.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathhugh, from 2,422 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 186,392 m² (18.64 ha, 46.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathhugh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Dec 2019Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a new forestry road entrance including all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 19502
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathhugh.
Recorded monuments
- SL005-052 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on level summit broad of broad E-W orientated ridge in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 8.55m; int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. A drystone field wall lies along the outer face of the bank S-WNW and on the crest of the bank WNW-NE. A N-S orientated field wall skirts the external base of the bank NE-ESE and a WNW-ESE orientated field wall links to the bank at WNW. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-175 Kiln - lime
Description
Built into N-facing slope of a natural terrace, in pasture. A cashel (SL005-052----) is located 180m to the NE. D-shaped structure (max. ext. dims. 2.75m N-S; 2.35m E-W), with the straight vertical side (Wth 1.4; H 0.5m) facing N, constructed of roughly quarried sandstone blocks. The bowl is infilled (int. diam. 1.05m) with rubble stone and earth and the edges, with the exception of the straight side, are covered by a scarp (ext. H 0.4m) of earth and rubble limestone. The stoking hole (H 0.1m; Wth 0.2m) is located at the central base of the N side at the rear of a rectangular lintelled recess (Wth 0.5m; H 0.3m). A short length of walling (L 0.4m; Wth 0.65m) extends N from the E end of the N side of the kiln. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Double-span limestone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1830. Uncoursed rubble walling rising uninterrupted to uncapped low parapets. Semi-circular arches, roughly-dressed voussoirs, semi-circular battered cutwaters to both sides. Single carriageway deck, gravelled verges. Spans south-east to north-west over narrow stream. Located in flat scenic landscape.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathhugh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathhugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Rathhugh · Ráth Aodha
- Area
- 941,212 m² (94.12 ha, 232.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ahamlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Cliffony South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cliffony South electoral division: 577 people in 216 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Rathhugh 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.