Rathmulpatrick
Rathmulpatrick is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacallan, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Ráth Mhaolphádraig.
- Area
- 90.6 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 27,409 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmulpatrick, from 1,069 m² to 117,803 m² (11.78 ha, 29.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathmulpatrick 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
No planning application touches the townland of Rathmulpatrick in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Rathmulpatrick.
Recorded monuments
- SL027-156 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on a NE-facing slope overlooking the Feorish River and just below the summit of a ridge. A circular area (23m NW-SE) raised 1.1m above the surrounding ground level and truncated at SW by a field boundary. The interior is defined by a 3m wide band of grass that may mark the line of a levelled enclosing bank. The interior slopes gently down to NE and is overgrown with rushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL027-159 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 21m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m). An external fosse (Wth 4m) is evident NE-NW. Stones incorporated into the bank may be the remains of stone facing. The interior is level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL034-062 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, near the base of the S-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.4m) NNW-ENE, a stone-faced scarp (H 1.4m) ENE-SW and incorporated into an overgrown field boundary SW- NNW. The S half of the interior is slightly raised to compensate for the hillslope though it still retains a slope down to S. The perimeter and part of the interior are densely covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmulpatrick.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rathmulpatrick, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathmulpatrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Rathmulpatrick · Ráth Mhaolphádraig
- Area
- 905,863 m² (90.59 ha, 223.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Drumcolumb, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 273 people lived in 106 households in the Drumcolumb electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghcarthy, Coollemoneen, Drummacool, Glen, Knockbreenagher, Mount Town, Ummeryroe
- Placenames
- Rathmulpatrick 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.