Rathurles

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathurles, from 1,116 m² to 641,657 m² (64.17 ha, 158.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Rathurles 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.

• 24 Jun 2023Conditional

  demolition of existing kitchen and outbuildings, construction of new single-storey extension to existing dwelling, renovations & alterations to existing dwelling, construction of new domestic garage, provision of new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360453

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  a slatted cubicle house. The development is within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22628

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  alterations to existing dwelling to include 1. Changes to elevations 2. Extension to the rear 3. New entrance and closing of existing entrance 4. Provision of new treatment plant and percolation area 5. and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211882

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of a straw bedded loose house extensions to existing slatted livestock shed and machinery shed/store together with associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211386

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  existing garage and storage shed, including boundary wall, entrance and associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600397

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  (1) extension & alterations to existing house (2) provision of new treatment plant and polishing filter bed (3) construction of new garage and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600028

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 Rathurles.

Recorded monuments

• TN021-012001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in undulating pastureland. A roughly circular area (diam. 55m N-S) defined by an inner bank largely reduced to a scarp, a fosse (Wth 6m), a berm or walkway and an outer fosse (Wth 6.5m; D c. 2.5m). The central bank was probably backfilled into the central fosse to provide the walkway which has the stone foundations of a building at N. A fifteenth-century church (TN021-012002) occupies the interior of the ringfort. The outer bank is levelled in the NE quadrant. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN021-012002 Church
  Description

  Situated in the interior of a ringfort (TN021-012001). A well-preserved fifteenth-century rectangular church (dims. 9.1m N-S; 17.4m E-W; wall T 0.85m) of roughly coursed limestone. The N and S walls stand to a maximum height of 3m with coping stones in situ on both gables and an external base-batter (H 1.4m; Wth 0.15-0.2m) is visible. At the W end of the N wall there is a segmental arched doorway with its sides altered. A central two-light ogee-headed window occupies the E gable while there are single-light flat-headed windows near the E and W ends of the S wall, at the E and W ends of the N wall and at first-floor level in the W gable. Beam-holes at the W end of the N and S walls supported first-floor accommodation with attic above. There is an aumbry in the E gable and a piscina in the S wall with basin missing. In 1306-8 William Haket was chief tenant of the lands around Rathurles and held the land of Theobald le Bottiller (PRI rep. DK 39, 24). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN021-012003 Gateway
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1998) as piers. These gatepiers are located in the field NE of Rathurles ringfort (TN021-012001). They consist of two large recumbent limestone blocks fomerly used as gatepiers to mark the entrance to the ringfort and are likely to be of nineteenth-century date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN021-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing slope in rolling pastureland. A roughly circular area (diam. 28.4m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. and ext. H 1.13), levelled at N and E. No entrance feature visible. Mature beech trees on the bank suggest reuse as a tree-ring. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN021-032 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on relatively level ground in a small wood, with the Ollatrim River c. 25m to the E. A round, three-storey tower house (int. dim. 6m; wall T 3m) of roughly coursed limestone blocks, largely destroyed above first-floor level. The entrance at ground-floor level at E is through a pointed doorway, rebated externally, with a yett-hole in the S jamb. There is a lobby with a murder-hole overhead and a doorway to the S leads to a second lobby which in turn gives access to spiral stairs in the S and the main chamber to the W via a round-headed doorway. This chamber is lit by three flat-headed single-lights in large rectangular embrasures. The first floor was carried on wooden beams and has a corbelled dome ceiling. It was lit by four round-headed single-lights. A doorway in the S embrasure of the E window gives access to a mural chamber containing the murder-hole. The spiral stairs are lit by small, flat-headed loops and have collapsed above first-floor level. The exit chute of the garderobe is visible in the external SW face, though much of the exterior is greatly obscured by ivy. Well-executed details such as hanging-eyes, together with punch tooling and drafting on stonework indicate a late sixteenth-century date for this tower house. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Rathurles House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1800, with three-bay gable elevations. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls to upper storeys, roughly dressed limestone walls, moulded limestone eaves course, basement string course and having round-headed alcoves to gables. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to first floor, timber casement to ground, and replacement timber with brick voussoirs to basement, all with cut-stone sills. Inserted early eighteenth-century carved limestone Gibbsian doorcase, flanked by sidelights with replacement windows and having replacement glazed timber door with lintel and cobweb fanlight above, surmounted by open-bed pediment supported on consoles. Flight of limestone steps leading to door. Ruins of earlier castle to site.

• Rathurles Bridge, bridge, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch humpback road bridge, built c.1775, with round arches and with triangular cut-waters to north side. Partially rendered limestone rubble walls, with roughly-dressed limestone cut-waters, voussoirs and coping stones to parapets.

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 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 Rathurles.

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

Name

Rathurles · Ráth Durlais

Area

1,231,327 m² (123.13 ha, 304.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilruane, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Ballygibbon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballygibbon electoral division: 673 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashnevin, Cunnahurt East, Cunnahurt West, Lisgarode, Moanfin, Rathfalla

Placenames

Rathurles 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.