Rathdrum

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathdrum, from 96 m² to 517,984 m² (51.8 ha, 128 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathdrum 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.

• 23 May 2024Conditional

  alterations to previously granted planning permission (PD. ref: 2360327) to include a reduction in footprint by 5m2 and the addition of a 5m2 plantroom to the north elevation and to change the external wall finish in part from a render finish to cladding together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460396

• 17 May 2023Conditional

  part demolition of existing cottage, and adjoining structures and construction of new extension, including raising the roof of the original cottage, construction of new detached garage, construction of new vehicular entrance to the east to replace existing, installation of new wastewater treatment system to replace existing and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360327

• 19 Jun 2019N/a

  construct a new cattle shed with underground slatted tank and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600676

• 12 Jun 2019N/a

  construct a new cattle shed with underground slatted tank and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600647

• 17 Apr 2019N/a

  construction of a new cattle shed with underground slatted tank and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600392

• 27 Mar 2019N/a

  construction of a new cattle shed with underground slatted tank and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600283

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 Rathdrum.

Recorded monuments

• TS070-065 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture, with land rising to the NE and SW. The Civil Survey (1654-56) lists 'Redmond Mocler of Rathdrom Irish Papist' as the proprietor in 1640 and on his lands there is 'a stump of a Castle the Walls standing' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 209). A tower house (ext. dims. 11m NE–SW; 8.1m NW–SE; wall T 1.9m) constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with a base-batter (H 3m; Wth 0.25m), of which the ground and first-floor survive. It appears to have rounded quoins, though these are only visible on the N angle as the W angle does not survive, the S angle has been robbed and the E angle is obscured by dense ivy growth. The tower house was entered in the SW wall, which is now missing. There are the remains of a spiral stair in the W angle and a guardroom (H 2.15m; dims. 1.8m x 0.8m) to the S of the entrance lobby which has a small wall cupboard in the NE wall. The lobby itself and the chambers above do not survive. The ground floor (int. dims. 4.47m NE–SW; 4.43m NW–SE) was lit by two windows, a narrow round-headed window in the centre of the SE wall and a now broken out window at the N end of the NE wall, which according to the OSL was also round headed ((O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 68(181)). There is a large wall cupboard towards the W end of the NW wall. The first-floor was entered from the spiral stairs, as evidenced by a door recess at the W end of the NW wall. It rested on a wooden floor supported on corbels on the NW and SE wall and is vaulted over. Much of the vault, which ran NE–SW, has collapsed, however, the vertical recesses for the vault's formwork supports are visible in the NW and SE wall. The first floor appears to have been lit by a window at the N end of the NE wall, though the only evidence is the N side of a straight-sided possible window embrasure. According to the OSL the window at first-floor level was pointed (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 68(181)). There is a garderobe chute at the S end of the SE wall which exits 1.35m above the external ground level. The chute appears to be serving a garderobe at second-floor level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2011

• TS070-088 Church
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in undulating pasture. The church is enclosed by a sub-rectangular graveyard (TS070-088001-). It survives as rectangular foundations (dims. 6.55m N–S; 3.3m E–W), defined by an earth bank (S bank int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m; Wth at top 1.1m; overall Wth 3.4m; W bank int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.55m; Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 2.2m; N bank int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m; Wth at top 1.3m; overall Wth 5m) with stone protruding. Two parallel banks, approx. 6m apart, run NE–SW from the NW and SW angles of the church, these banks (surviving max. L 5.5m E–W) appear to have been truncated by the road which runs roughly N–S 8m to the W of the church. There are the remains of a low earth-covered mound (L 12m N–S) with stone protruding along the base of the hedgerow in the field W of the road, possibly church material upcast during the road construction. An earthen bank (H 0.25-0.45m; Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 4.4m) runs NE–SW for 11.7m from the NE angle of the church foundations towards the N bank of the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2011

• TS070-088001 Graveyard
  Description

  Templemurry Church (TS070-088----) is enclosed by a sub-rectangular graveyard (dims. 24.4m N–S along the E side; 35.3m N–S along the W side; 39.5m E–W), defined to the S by a broad bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.94m; Wth at top 1.4m; overall Wth 4.5m) and to the E, at the S end, by an irregular much eroded scarp/bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth at top 1.4m; overall Wth 2.5m). There is no visible scarp or bank along the N half of the E side. The N side is defined by a broad low bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 4.3m) which appears to continue in the field across the road to the W where there is a low rise for a short distance (L 5.3m). The W edge of the graveyard is poorly preserved but is visible as a low scarp (H 0.45m). The NW angle is not visible above ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathdrum, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathdrum · Ráth Droma

Area

955,197 m² (95.52 ha, 236.03 acres)

Civil parish

Colman, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Colman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

457 people lived in 156 households in the Colman electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Colman (Cramptmore), Colman (Hennessy), Killerk North, Redcity

Placenames

Rathdrum 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.