# Rathroe, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killenaule, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Ráth Rua.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 545,888 m² (54.59 ha, 134.89 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,186 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Killenaule, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/killenaule.md
- Barony: Slievardagh
- Electoral division: Killenaule, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/47742
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212790
- Centre: latitude 52.567148, longitude -7.653384 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 499920: 149,607 m² (14.96 ha, 36.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/499920.md
- Parcel 563725: 145,784 m² (14.58 ha, 36.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/563725.md
- Parcel 504395: 52,918 m² (5.29 ha, 13.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/504395.md
- Parcel 563726: 48,483 m² (4.85 ha, 11.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/563726.md
- Parcel 563723: 32,077 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/563723.md
- Parcel 586468: 22,175 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/586468.md
- Parcel 587847: 14,560 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/587847.md
- Parcel 504383: 13,421 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/504383.md
- Parcel 497456: 13,186 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/497456.md
- Parcel 504394: 11,635 m² (1.16 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/504394.md
- Parcel 586205: 8,810 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/586205.md
- Parcel 563724: 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/563724.md
- Parcel 567525: 4,720 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/567525.md
- Parcel 542648: 4,646 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/542648.md
- Parcel 4144102: 4,077 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4144102.md
- Parcel 543034: 3,395 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/543034.md
- Parcel 562996: 2,521 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/562996.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 8 Jun 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560520: Conditional. Retention. a) two domestic sheds, b) a stable shed and c) boundary treatments. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560520/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- TS054-051: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTS054-051----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTS054-052----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathroe.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathroe.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/rathroe.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rathroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Castlequarter: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/castlequarter-210758.md
- Crosscannon: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/crosscannon.md
- Graigue Lower: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/graigue-lower-211704.md
- Graigue Upper: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/graigue-upper-211705.md
- Killenaule: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/killenaule-211931.md
- Kilnahone: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kilnahone.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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