Rathkenty
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltinan, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ráth an Cheantaigh
- Area
- 82 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 73,618 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathkenty, from 10,293 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres) to 261,410 m² (26.14 ha, 64.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
No zone of a development plan covers Rathkenty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2022Conditional
dormer type dwelling, separate garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system.
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22444
20 Aug 2019Conditional
construction (i) widen agricultural entrance (ii) underground effluent storage and all associated site works. Retention is required for (i) slatted feeding area with underground effluent storage tank and concrete apron (ii) agricultural entrance with farm roadway (iii) two loose shed with farm roadway and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600923
21 Jan 2019Conditional
construction of sheep shed with effluent storage tank and hardcore yard and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600043
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 Rathkenty.
Recorded monuments
- TS077-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the summit of a broad hill, the ground slopes off to the NE beyond the monument, in pasture. Though the monument has been levelled it is still evident as a bivallate ringfort (diam. 44.4m N-S; 50m E-W), with much denuded inner bank (Wth. 1.5m crest; 5.8m base; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.61m); fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.7m) and outer bank (Wth 6.3m; ext. H 0.12m). There is a small pond immediately E of the monument, the outer bank adjacent to this pond is gone and the inner bank is degraded. In the SW quadrant the inner bank is gone and there is shallow quarrying into the interior, the fosse is filled-up, may be possible causeway, there are slight traces of an outer bank in this area. On the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map a limekiln is indicated on the outer bank in the NE quadrant. The inner and outer banks in the NE quadrant are almost completely levelled. In the S quadrant thre is some quarrying into the inner bank from the fosse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS077-017 Enclosure
Description
On a W-facing incline with rock outcrop at top of slope. Slope continues to fall to roughly line of hachures on 6-inch OS 6-inch map, before levelling out by the bank of the River Moyle. Enclosure is depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as an area defined by a bank or scarp from N-S and by the river bank from S-N, and on the 2nd (1906) ed. as a roughly oval area, within the loop of a river, defined by scarp between a loop in the river on the1st (1840) 2nd 1906 ed. (dims. c. 36m N-S; c. 26m E-W). There is no visible trace at ground level. The field is under pasture and is badly poached by horses. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 15 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathkenty.
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 Rathkenty.
- 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 Rathkenty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Rathkenty · Ráth an Cheantaigh
- Area
- 819,882 m² (81.99 ha, 202.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Colman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Colman electoral division: 457 people in 156 households; 84% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baptistgrange, Carrigeensharragh, Kiltinan, Milltown Britton, Shanbally, Sladagh
- Placenames
- Rathkenty 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.