Rathgallen

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathgallen, from 543 m² to 650,531 m² (65.05 ha, 160.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Rathgallen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathgallen 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.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• TS068-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, on a generally level area with gentle downslope to N, E and S. Raised circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by earthen bank (Wth 9.6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 2m). Flat-bottomed intervening fosse (basal Wth 2.4m; total Wth 12.6m; D 0.6m). Wide berm (int. Wth 2.6m; top Wth 10m; ext. Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) is flat-topped and visible E-SE-S due to overgrowth. Possible that this is relatively recent formation where two banks have been pushed into one wide berm feature, as grass cover is fresh here. Difficult to confirm as berm only visible on SE side, however two banks and an intervening fosse are visible WSW-NW instead of berm. Wide outer fosse (total Wth 9m; basal Wth 4.5m; D 0.5m) SE-S-W-NW defined by mature thorn trees on outer edge. Entire site covered in over and undergrowth and only accessible in SE quadrant. Interior inaccessible, even from SE, however appears to slope downwards to NNE. Possible entrance at WNW. Ringfort fenced-off from cattle, although round feeder in SE corner, just outside ringfort. Farm track way at a tangent to S side. Mound (TS068-142----) c. 135m to SW and ringfort (TS068-039----) intervisible c. 315m to SSE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS068-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In fallow arable field, ploughed right up to edge of monument. On top of low rise at spot height 268ft. Raised circular area (dims. c. 46.3m N-S; c. 44m E-W) defined by earthen bank (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.55m). Possible modification of exterior of bank on E side. Interior rises upwards gradually from base of bank to raised (H 0.65m) circular area (dims. c. 36m N-S; c. 34m E-W) which tilts gently downwards to SE. Possible that this is original interior and that internal bank has been levelled into a possible intervening fosse (Wth 5.1m; D 0.5m), leaving the slight depression around the raised circular area within interior. Furthermore, steep drop to deep fosse like feature within E edge of interior. Ringfort (TS068-038----) intervisible c. 135m to NW and ringfort (TS068-040----) intervisible c. 285m to SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS068-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In fallow arable field, atop low rise, land falling gently downslope to E, S and W. Oval circular area (dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by earthen bank (Wth 4.65m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1m) at WSW and bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.2m) at ESE. Top of bank flat-topped (Wth 0.95m). Bank reduced to scarp in places at SW. Causewayed entrance (Wth 1.5m) at WNW and break (Wth 2m) covered in undergrowth, in bank at E. Broad, U-shaped external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.6m) visible, however encroached by plough line at outer edges. Interior generally level and covered in nettles with briars around edges. Ringfort (TS068-039----) inter-visible c. 285m to NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS068-142 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (dims. c. 9m N-S; c. 8m E-W) defined by gentle scarp (H 0.55m; Wth 1.5m at N; Wth 2m at E). Mound is flat topped and tending downslope to E. External fosse (Wth 5.3m; D 0.45m) visible NW-N-ENE. Established hedgerow field boundary truncates S sector slightly and electric fence crosses W sector. Curvilinear depression E-SE-S extends from base of mound at ENE. Ringfort (TS068-038----) c. 135m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathgallen, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathgallen · Ráth Choileáin

Area

1,362,336 m² (136.23 ha, 336.64 acres)

Civil parish

Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Thomastown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

385 people lived in 146 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnbrack, Lisgibbon, Raheen, Ross, Suirville, Templenahurney, Thomastown Demesne South

Placenames

Rathgallen 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.