Rathsallagh
Rathsallagh is a townland in the civil parish of Tullamain, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Ráth Salach.
- Area
- 113.5 ha
- 281 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathsallagh, from 793 m² to 300,417 m² (30.04 ha, 74.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathsallagh 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
28 Apr 2025Conditional
the erection of a memorial plaque and including all associated site development works. The memorial will be erected near the site of the former Third Tipperary Old IRA Brigade Headquarters
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2566
16 Apr 2025N/a
to erect a memorial plaque and including all associated site development works. The memorial will be erected near the site of the former Third Tipperary Old IRA Brigade Headquarters
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560
10 Mar 2020Conditional
the construction of new entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands on the Northern side of the public roadway, to comprise the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcored structure to access area and all associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20223
10 Mar 2020Conditional
the construction of new entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands on the Southern side of the public roadway, to comprise the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcored structure to access area and all associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20224
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 Rathsallagh.
Recorded monuments
- TS069-043 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (dims. 20m N-S; 20m E-W Measurements taken from latest edition OS 6-inch map as overgrowth too dense) defined by inner earthen bank (Wth 9.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) reduced to scarp in places. Badgers set in exterior of inner bank at E. Intervening fosse (Wth 8.8m; D 0.4-0.6m) truncated by field boundary (long axis E-W) to N. Outer bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.2m) NE-E-S-NW truncated by field boundary to N. Interior inaccessible due to impenetrable growth of thorn trees. Ringfort-rath (TS069-042----) located 220m to W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS069-055 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on low rise. No visible surface trace. Depicted as oval area (dims.) on 1840 edition OS 6-inch map. Farm buildings to SE. Enclosure (TS069-056----) located c. 190m to S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS069-056 Enclosure
Description
In pasture. No visible surface trace. Natural knoll with sharp drop on E-side utilised to site monument. Depicted as a roughly circular enclosure on the 1840 edition OS 6-inch map. Not depicted on latest edition map and according to Cahill (1982), is levelled. Enclosures (TS069-055----) located c. 190m to N and (TS069-054----) located c. 210m to SE. 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 Rathsallagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rathsallagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathsallagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rathsallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Rathsallagh · Ráth Salach
- Area
- 1,135,209 m² (113.52 ha, 280.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullamain, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Tullamain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 706 people lived in 250 households in the Tullamain electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnatanvoher, Castleblake, Rathmacarty East, Rathmacarty West, Tullamain
- Placenames
- Rathsallagh 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.