Rathcool

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcool, from 81 m² to 288,476 m² (28.85 ha, 71.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rathcool 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.

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  a dwelling house, entrance, driveway, treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660910

• 27 Jun 2024Conditional

  amendments to previously granted planning permission (Reference No. 22543) to include the re-design and re-position of the proposed single-storey dwelling, and changes to the site layout and external works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460518

• 2 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a bungalow, packaged treatment plant and raised teriary infiltration area, recessed front entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22543

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 Rathcool.

Recorded monuments

• TS062-115 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On summit of flat-topped N-S ridge with Clashawley river c. 70m to W, in pasture. Monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. According to Cahill (1982) the ringfort (diam. 33m) was upstanding and in good condition in 1982 and consisted of 'low platform type; oval plan. Slight evidence of enclosing bank'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS062-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On level ground in gently undulating terrain, under pasture with channelised stream c. 250m to W. Roughly circular ringfort (diam. 29.3m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 7.8m; int. H 0.96m; ext. H 1.94m); fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 1.07m) and outer bank visible from NW-N (Wth 4.3m; ext. H 0.35m). Banks of earthen construction. Field boundary which ran E-W along S side of ringfort has been levelled and some of the material dumped in the monument, particularly in the W and S quadrants where it has filled the fosse and obscured the outer bank. The ringfort is grass covered, with scrub on the bank in the S quadrant and trees and scrub on the banks in the N sector. There is a gap (Wth 4m) in the W quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS062-119 Enclosure
  Description

  On gentle W-facing slope on a N-S ridge with Clashawley river valley to E, in pasture. The enclosure had been levelled when visited by Cahill (1982). Not visible at ground level. Only the N quadrant is depicted on the 1903-04 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-007001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On flat ground on the E bank of the Clashawley river with Rathcool motte (TS070-008---) located c. 25m to the S and Rathcool church (TS070-009----) and graveyard (TS070-009001-) 350m to the S. According to the Civil Survey (1654-56), the 'lands of Rathcoole, Farrenmabin, Cuarraghscartin Bellavady & Garryduffe...hath on it a Castle a Thatcht house, an old Oarchard & a Garden with sev[er]all small Cottages & the Rivolett Glassalin run[n]ing through it', with 'James Lord Barron of Dunboyne Irish Papist' the proprietor in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 191). The 2nd (1903-04) ed. 6-inch OS map indicates that Rathcoole house (TS070-007002-) is on the site of Rathcoole Castle. This is indeed the case as one wall of a medieval castle, probably a tower house, still survives 2.2m from the present S end of the two-storey house where it joins onto a later three-storey house. The wall, two-storeys high (Wth 1.7m) has an external base-batter (H 2m; Wth 0.3m) facing N. The rest of the castle appears to have been levelled. It is possible that the thatched house, mentioned in the Civil Survey, was built onto the exterior of the N wall of the castle and thus this wall was retained. The present two-storey house, running roughly N-S, is possibly that 17th house. During recent renovations within the house the central portion of an ogee two-light cut limestone window head, probably of 16th-century date, was recovered from the stonework of the chimney of the two-storey house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 December 2012

• TS070-007002 House - 17th century
  Description

  On flat ground on the E bank of the Clashawley river with Rathcool motte (TS070-008---) located c. 25m to the S and Rathcool church (TS070-009----) and graveyard (TS070-009001-) 350m to the S. According to the Civil Survey (1654-56), the 'lands of Rathcoole, Farrenmabin, Cuarraghscartin Bellavady & Garryduffe...hath on it a Castle a Thatcht house, an old Oarchard & a Garden with sev[er]all small Cottages & the Rivolett Glassalin run[n]ing through it', with 'James Lord Barron of Dunboyne Irish Papist' the proprietor in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 191). The 2nd (1903-04) ed. 6-inch OS map indicates that Rathcoole house is on the site of Rathcoole Castle (TS070-007001-). Rathcoole house is a two-phase building, the earlier two-storey six-bay house (L 28.7m; Wth 4.6m; wall T 0.5-0.65m) runs roughly N-S while a later mid-18th century block runs eastward from the S end of the earlier house. The two-story house is one room deep, though a corridor runs from the kitchen along the W wall giving access to other rooms. The southern end of the house probably originally was built up against the wall of a castle, the N wall of which still survives. The original large fireplace in the kitchen was modified during renovations and a cut limestone architectural fragment, probably from the castle and of 16th-century date, was recovered from the stonework of the chimney. The two-storey house has three brick chimneys, all later insertions. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 March 2012

• TS070-008 Castle - motte
  Description

  In low-lying valley of the Clashawley river which runs c. 20m W of base of motte. Rathcool castle (TS070-007001-) and possible 17th-century house (TS070-007002-) is located c. 25m to the NNW. Rathcool church and graveyard are located 350m to the S. Empey (1985, 74) mentions that the sheriff of Tipperary in 1297, Walter le Bret, was robbed of £100 from his manor of Rathcool. There is a ridge running N-S to E of motte. A well-preserved, flat-topped motte (basal diam. 32.2m N-S; 33.8m E-W; H 6.4-7.4m H), the oval summit (diam. 10.8m N-S; 10.2m E-W) is enclosed by a low stone wall, (H 0.52-0.65m) two courses high, obscured by grass. There is a steep drop on all but the N side where there is a more gentle slope. There is a beech tree growing on the summit and a post and wire fence around the base c. 3-10 from edge. There is no visible evidence of a bailey, the flat ground to the N or S could have been utilised, the former is now occupied by Rathcool castle and possible 17th-century house and landscaped garden, while the area to the S was seen as a likely candidate by Lyons (ITA files, N.D.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 6 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Rathcoole Castle, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic, built c. 1750, with projecting canted flat-roofed porch, and lower six-bay two-storey wing, possibly earlier house. Pitched slate roof with decoratively carved timber bargeboards and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks to addition. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed openings throughout, having replacement uPVC windows to main house and timber sliding sash windows to wing, one-over-one pane to ground floor and two-over-two pane to first floor. Porch comprises pseudo-three-centred openings with one-over-one timber sash sliding windows with render panels beneath, and timber panelled door with glazed overlight and cut limestone steps. Square-headed opening with glazed timber panelled door to other block. Segmental-arched carriage entrance in enclosed yard with rubble limestone walls and having two-storey outbuildings with hipped slate roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber louvred windows and timber battened doors. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to road with pitched roof porch, pitched slate roof and rendered chimney.

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 Rathcool, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathcool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rathcool · Ráth Cuala

Area

1,490,971 m² (149.1 ha, 368.43 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcool, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardsallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

470 people lived in 167 households in the Ardsallagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annesgift, Ballintemple, Carrigeen, Farranaleen, Kilknockan, Rathavin, Rocklow

Placenames

Rathcool 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.