Rath

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 1,309 m² to 373,690 m² (37.37 ha, 92.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Rath 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rath in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rath.

Recorded monuments

• WM002-026 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a very low rise in fairly well-drained pasture land with wide views of the surrounding countryside, bogland 200m to NNE. Stream 30m to W which marks county boundary with Longford. Ringfort (LF020-020---) 40m to NNW, second ringfort (WM006-001----) 250m to SSE. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort possible. The enclosure is marked on all editions of the OS 6 inch maps as an antiquity. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

• WM006-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on S facing slope of low natural rise in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Bogland 200m to N, and ringfort (WM002-026----) 250m to NW. Levelled ringfort the outline of which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. The monument was levelled c. 1975 and was described in this year as consisting of a sub-circular area (approx. diam. 40m N-S) defined by a low poorly preserved earthen bank with traces of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. The interior was described as uneven and had been recently bulldozed. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• WM006-002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise in gently undulating pasture-land. Ringfort (WM006-003----) 400m to E. A slightly raised sub-circular area (approx. diam. 27m N-S) enclosed by a very low bank with slight remains of an external fosse, and traces of a poorly defined outer bank and external fosse. The outer bank and external fosse are intersected at SE by a post-1700 field fence running NE-SW. The slightly raised interior has traces of cultivation ridges running across the monument. The profile of the earthwork and its appearance on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 may suggest that this monument is a ring-barrow rather than a ringfort. Gap in outer bank and fosse at NNW visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph may be an entrance feature Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2016

• WM006-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise in gently undulating pasture land with good views in all directions. Ring-barrow (WM006-002---) 420m to W. A roughly circular area (diam. 45m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight fosse from E-S. The outer bank and external fosse are intersected at NE by a post-1700 field fence running NW-SE. The slightly raised interior has traces of cultivation ridges running N-S across the monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 January 2017

• WM006-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a steep narrow ridge, surrounded by gently undulating pasture-land with excellent views to the W, N and E. Ringfort (WM006-010----) 180m to the S. A partially levelled sub-circular area (diam. 25m NS; 21m EW) defined by a poorly preserved bank from SW-W-N and elsewhere by crop-mark, represented by a band of vegetation (Wth 6m). A levelled field boundary running NE-SW intersects the site at SE. The interior is slightly uneven, with a slight slope from NE-SW and is crossed by cultivation ridges running NNE-SSW. Limekiln depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map immediately N of the ringfort. This levelled kiln is depicted as a hachured mound on the revised 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 December 2016

• WM006-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on SE face of a low ridge running NW-SE in gently undulating pasture-land. River Riffey located 85m to SW and S which marks townland boundary with Loughanstown (Moygoish barony). Ringfort (WM006-009----) 180m to the N. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 48m N-S; 46m E-W) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.3m). This fosse is completely filled in from NW-N. A levelled field boundary running NE-SW intersects the site at N. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE and has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run ENE-WSW. Outline of monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 January 2017

Architectural heritage

• Rath National School, school, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height national school, built c.1950, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed recessed flanking entrance end bays to either side (north and south). Now in community use. Hipped natural slate roof (small slates) having clay ridge tiles, central metal vent and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofs to flanking recessed entrance bays/wings. Constructed of brick below sill level with roughcast rendered finish above sill level. Cut stone plaque to centre of entrance façade (east). Square-headed window openings (grouped in two sets of three arrangement) having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing pattern. Square-headed doorcases to flanking wings having plain rendered surrounds and timber doors. Set back from road with modern rendered wall to road-frontage (east). Located to the south of Street Village.

• Street and Rathowen Railway Station, railway station, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former railway station, built in 1877. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of squared rusticated limestone over projecting chamfered plinth with flush brick quoins to the corners. Square-headed openings with brick dressings having the remains of timber sliding sash windows and the remains of timber door to the centre of the front façade (south). Located adjacent to level crossing (15400608), to the northwest of Rathowen and the south of Streete.

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 Rath.

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 Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Rath

Area

2,621,578 m² (262.16 ha, 647.81 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Rathowen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathowen electoral division: 386 people in 143 households; 71% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barradrum, Clonwhelan (Co. Longford), Culvin, Longfield (Co. Longford), Loughanstown, Loughanstown Lower or Slievelahan, Monadarragh (Co. Longford), Russagh, Tinode

Placenames

Rath 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.