Rathroe

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathroe, from 2,521 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 149,607 m² (14.96 ha, 36.97 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 Rathroe 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.

• 8 Jun 2025Conditional

  a) two domestic sheds, b) a stable shed and c) boundary treatments

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560520

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 Rathroe.

Recorded monuments

• TS054-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on a W-facing slope of rising ground with good extensive views in all directions. Nearby ringfort (TS054-052----) 300m to SE. Slight raised circular area (int. diam. c. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.8m; base Wth 4m; int. H 1.2-0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) and outer fosse (base Wth 3m; top Wth 5m; ext. D 0.2m) with concrete silage pit immediately to S of external face of inner bank at S. Fosse intersected by townland boundary at W running N-S with field boundary intersecting outer face of bank at NE as depicted on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map where the fosse has been filled in. Small quarry (D 0.9m; 10m N-S x 5m E-W) located in N quadrant of interior, otherwise the interior is well preserved. No clear entrance feature visible, perimeter covered in furze bushes making detailed examination impossible. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on high ground just slightly below summit of hill on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with commanding views in all directions. Rringfort (TS054-051----) 300m to NW. Raised circular area (int. diam 27m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a steep-sided earth and stone bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H. 3.5m) and narrow deep fosse (base Wth 1.5m; top Wth 6m; ext. D 1.2m) of V-shaped profile and the poorly preserved remains of an outer bank (top Wth 1.5m; base Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.3m) of earth and stone. No clear entrance feature visible, gap (Wth 3m) in bank at W may be remains of entrance feature but it may have been a later livestock gap. Enclosing bank is partially obscured by the dense cover of furze bushes growing along the top of the bank and down the external slope of the bank. Field bank radiating out from the NNW quadrant has been levelled, otherwise the remaining three field boundaries radiating out are intact, as shown on the latest ed. OS six inch map. Very impressive monument with steep profile to outer face of inner bank and narrow deep fosse and its raised interior set this monument aside from the nearby ringfort which has different morphological features more in keeping with a classic ringfort. This monument may be a high status ringfort or a medieval ringwork. Mentioned in the Civil Survey as a “Forte called Rahroe James-oge” (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 102). On the S quadrant of the external face of the bank has been dug into exposing the stone core of the bank, small quarry (dims. 10m N-S x 5m E-W; D 0.5m) located in N quadrant of the interior, some quarrying of external face of bank at W otherwise the monument is in a fair to good condition. Platform of interior appears to be raised by about 1.5m above the outer ground surface. 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 Rathroe.

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 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 Rathroe.

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

Name

Rathroe · An Ráth Rua

Area

545,888 m² (54.59 ha, 134.89 acres)

Civil parish

Killenaule, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Killenaule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killenaule electoral division: 1,223 people in 486 households; 67% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlequarter, Crosscannon, Graigue Lower, Graigue Upper, Killenaule, Kilnahone

Placenames

Rathroe 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.