Rathkeevin
Townland in the civil parish of Rathronan, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ráth Ciabháin
- Area
- 195.7 ha
- 484 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 4,691 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- Environs
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathkeevin, from 78 m² to 274,765 m² (27.48 ha, 67.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Aug 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, entrance, driveway, treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560801
3 Aug 2023Conditional
(1) the relocation of main entrance, provision of a secondary entrance to rear yard, provision of pedestrian entrance, modification of internal access roads, carparking and amenity pathways, (2) timber sheds, LPG tanks, waste receptacles and external generator, modification to percolation area and associated infrastructure, (3) advertising/information signage and external light columns
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23208
22 Jun 2023Conditional
a 10 year planning permission for development at lands to the north of the N24 National Road in the townlands of Jamestown, Kilmolash Upper, and Rathkeevin County Tipperary. The development will consist of: - Construction and operation of a c. 60MW solar PV farm consisting of solar arrays on ground mounted steel frames, with a maximum overall height of 2.6 metres; - Internal underground electrical cabling and ducting; - Up to 20 no. transformers; 2 no. temporary construction compounds; - Security fencing and cameras; - 2 no. new gated site entrances from the R687 local road; - New internal access tracks; - Site drainage; - Landscaping; - All ancillary works. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies the planning application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23172
16 Jun 2023N/a
a 10 year planning permission for development at lands to the north of the N24 National Road in the townlands of Jamestown, Kilmolash Upper, and Rathkeevin County Tipperary. The development will consist of; Construction and operation of a c. 60MW solar PV farm consisting of solar arrays on ground mounted steel frames, with a maximum overall height of 2.6 metres; Internal underground electrical cabling and ducting; Up to 20 no. transformers; 2 no. temporary construction compounds ; security fencing and cameras; 2 no. new gated site entrances from the R687 local road; New internal access tracks; Site drainage; Landscaping; All ancillary works. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies the planning application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23164
23 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and new entrance and all necessary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21551
19 Apr 2021N/a
grant of outline permission reference no. 20138 for construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and new entrance and all necessary site works
Permission consequent · Tipperary County Council, 21522
11 Mar 2021N/a
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21305
14 Feb 2020Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, garage, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and new entrance
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20138
17 Oct 2018Conditional
construction of new 2.4m high perimeter fencing to all boundaries, together with new 2.4m high entrance gates
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601254
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 Rathkeevin.
Recorded monuments
- TS082-024 Mound
Description
In flat terrain on hill top, ESE of summit. Land slopes beyond the mound to the SE. There is no visible trace of the mound above ground. Presuming that the monument was roughly circular, the S half is depicted on the 2nd (1904-05) ed. OS 6-inch map as a small, raised area. All the neighbouring field boundaries have been removed. A post and wire fence has been erected, running NE-SW, in the vicinity of the monument. A pond located SW of the mound has been filled in. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 January 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathkeevin.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathkeevin.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rathkeevin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Rathkeevin · Ráth Ciabháin
- Area
- 1,957,299 m² (195.73 ha, 483.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Electoral division
- Inishlounaght, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inishlounaght electoral division: 3,489 people in 1,248 households; 77% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barn Demesne, Carrickconeen, Chancellorstown Upper, Jamestown, Kilmolash Lower, Kilmolash Upper, Loughtally
- Placenames
- Rathkeevin 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.