Rathmooley

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmooley, from 799 m² to 206,375 m² (20.64 ha, 51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathmooley 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.

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  an extension to the rear of dwelling house and for retention permission for the storage shed on the site including all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561272

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  a) proposed new single storey extension to the existing dwelling; b) associated alterations to existing dwelling external elevations to accommodate proposed new extension & internal layout; c) new wastewater treatment system and percolation area; d) all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560980

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460405

• 29 Apr 2020Conditional

  a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, install waste water treatment system including associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20425

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  construction of a one and a half-storey extension to the side of existing dwelling and single-storey extension to front, alterations to roof and elevations, associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600326

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 Rathmooley.

Recorded monuments

• TS054-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on high ground with good panoramic views in all directions in upland region. Modern bungalow in adjoining field to S and SW. Large impressive but overgrown hilltop enclosure which was impossible to examine or take any measurements due to dense cover of vegetation. Raised circular platform (approx. int. diam. 36m; overall diam. 90m N-S; 85m E-W) enclosed by a bank and wide water-filled moat (Wth 7m; D 1-2m) and external bank (base Wth 7m; ext. H 1-1.5m). Monument was visited in summer after dry spell of weather and moat was deep and filled with water. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) in 1640 as an 'Old rath by the side of a wood called Barnacuillnagapoge' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 105). In 1925 two silver armlets of Viking date were discovered on the middle bank of the trivallate enclosure by cattle poaching of the middle rampart where the two armlets were uncovered (Scott-O'Connell 1938, 125-6; Sheehan 1992, 210-216). Scott-O'Connell describes the monument as as a 'fort' of the 'triple ring type….of the three ramparts, the central one is the broadest, and the fosse inside this rampart is filled with mud and water. The three ramparts are constructed of broken shale - the bedrock of the neighbourhood - and parts of them and particularly, near the entrance to the fort are slowly being levelled by cattle seeking the water. The entrance to the fort faces east, and on the central rampart and to the south of the entrance the armlets were uncovered by the cattle during the Autumn of 1925. Both ornaments lay together on the shale'. An inscribed slab (TS054-044001-) was also uncovered during drainage works in a section of the inner fosse. In the OS Namebook Rathmooley was derived from Ráth Maol meaning the Bald or Flat fort and was described as a Danish fort consisting of four rings or embankments. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1992).

• TS054-044001 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Recovered from a hilltop enclosure (TS054-044----) situated in grassland on high ground with good panoramic views in all directions in upland region. An inscribed slab was uncovered during drainage works in a section of the inner fosse (Scott-O'Connell 1938, 125-6). The slab has since been destroyed but is described as being a 'roughly rectangular slab (type of stone unknown) divided into four sections by crossed lines and each section being engraved with figures and lines' (ibid.). 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 Rathmooley.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rathmooley.

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.

No address of the register names Rathmooley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rathmooley · Ráth an Mhúiligh

Area

1,178,414 m² (117.84 ha, 291.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killenaule, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Cooleagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cooleagh electoral division: 582 people in 210 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cathaganstown, Dunguib, Graystown, Kilbreedy, Lismortagh, Mortlestown, Mountaylor

Placenames

Rathmooley 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.