# Rathard, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Mortlestown, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Ráth Ard.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 469,220 m² (46.92 ha, 115.95 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,918 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Mortlestown, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/mortlestown.md
- Barony: Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division: Mortlestown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,689 people lived in 568 households in the Mortlestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/48130
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212743
- Centre: latitude 52.408295, longitude -7.859443 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathard, from 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) to 148,460 m² (14.85 ha, 36.69 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 508827: 148,460 m² (14.85 ha, 36.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/508827.md
- Parcel 500373: 103,952 m² (10.4 ha, 25.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/500373.md
- Parcel 528123: 83,423 m² (8.34 ha, 20.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/528123.md
- Parcel 553412: 60,022 m² (6 ha, 14.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/553412.md
- Parcel 5720259: 25,366 m² (2.54 ha, 6.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5720259.md
- Parcel 5720244: 22,471 m² (2.25 ha, 5.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5720244.md
- Parcel 503024: 12,556 m² (1.26 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/503024.md
- Parcel 2708897: 5,786 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2708897.md
- Parcel 537341: 4,109 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/537341.md
- Parcel 4630032: 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630032.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rathard in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 15 Jan 2021, Tipperary County Council 2134: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2134/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathard.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- TS076-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTS076-029----. On E-facing slope of hill in undulating terrain. Field immediately E of ringfort under tillage, field in which ringfort is situated is under grass. Interior overgrown with nettles and scrub, though there are clear areas under grass. Roughly circular enclosure (diam. 27m NW-SE), defined by high, substantial round-topped bank (Wth 2.3-2.7m crest, 3.7--5m base; int. H 0.48-0.95m; H above fosse 1.36-2.1m; flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.3-3.1m); outer bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 1.6-3.7m base; ext. H 0.23m) measurements for NW and SE quadrants respectively. Possible outer bank, may be field boundary respecting existing monument, unusually wide intervening area if this is an outer bank. Outer bank terminates due S. Gap in inner bank (Wth 2m) in SSE possibly original entrance. Field boundary runs roughly N-S kinks around E quadrant from SSE to NNE, field boundary continues NW-SE, outer bank continues from due N to W to S. Gap (Wth 1.4m) in inner bank NNE which possible due to cattle erosion. Internal stone revetment on inner bank in NW. SW half of ringfort is heavily overgrown with nettles and dense scrub. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS076-030: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTS076-030----. On crest of broad, flat-topped hill, enclosed by tillage. Bivallate monument (overall diam. 72m N-S; 71m E-W), banks heavily overgrown with scrub, interior nettle and bramble filled. Entrance (Wth 1.6m) in WSW quad. Inner bank (Wth 5m base; int. H 1.16m; H above fosse 1.7m) is round-topped, narrower than outer bank. Intervening flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2m); outer bank is very broad and flat-topped (Wth 5m crest; H above fosse 1.71m; H above ext. 1.3m). According to landowner years ago he used to drive a tractor along the top of the outer bank when it was clear of vegetation. N quadrant located N of field boundary which is also a parish and townland boundary. NE section part of outer bank and possibly inner bank has been levelled, interior very overgrown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 February 2017

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rathard, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathard.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathard.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathard.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathard.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rathard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Knocknaboha: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knocknaboha.md
- Mortlestown: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/mortlestown-212524.md
- Mortlestown Little: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/mortlestown-little.md
- Whiteland: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whiteland.md
- Woodinstown: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/woodinstown.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathard
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/rathard