Rath

Area

377,827 m² (37.78 ha, 93.36 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it, 880 m² on the ground

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Rath

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• WM023-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a steep knoll, with panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted as an irregular-shaped woodland plantation on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map with Ordnance Survey Trig. Station in centre of woodland marking the OD 338 ft.. Monument described in 1982 as a ringfort that was reused as a designed landscape feature in the 18th century. Site consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. 25m) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with no trace of an external fosse. The interior is flat and has a circular-shaped stone pillar (approx. H 5m) within the centre which is annotated ‘Lows Folly’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan Map. Halfway up the pillar there is a rectangular-shaped plaque with an inscription which reads 'this pier erected 1769'. 'Pillar' described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as following; 'Freestanding pillar/monument/folly on circular plan and c. five metres in height, dated 1769. Built in rubble limestone with projecting cut stone band at a high level and a shallow domed rubble limestone cap over. Cut stone date stone incised '1769'. (www.buildingsofireland.ie: Reg. No. 15402318). The base of this hillock is enclosed by a low stone wall which forms a semi-circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 100m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Field boundary running NW-SE forming enclosing element of monument on SW side represents the townland boundary with Lisnascreen. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• WM023-082 Burial ground
  Description

  The National Museum of Ireland recorded that ‘in July 1999 human remains were discovered during quarrying operations in a sandpit at Kilkenny West, near Glassan, Co. Westmeath. The south-west corner of the field in which the bones were found marks the point where the three townlands meet, and the western and southern field banks mark the boundary of Kilkenny West with Tullaghan and Kilkenny Lanesborough respectively. A low ridge runs north/south through this field and the remains were uncovered just below the crest of the ridge on the eastern side. The site is elevated and looks down on Lough Mareegan (known locally as Auburn Lake) to the north. It is located some 1.25km south/west of Kilkenny West church (WM023-025----). Human remains had been discovered just under the topsoil at a depth of 0.3m. They had been badly disturbed by the digger and no details of the orientation or layout of the burials was known. The site was reported to the Gardaí, who informed the NMI. The site was investigated by Raghnall Ó Floinn. The Gardaí had dug around the area where the remains were found but could not locate any bones in situ. The redeposited topsoil and gravel was examined and some of the lower limb bones as well as the pelvis, ribs and vertebrae were retrieved. These remains came from the first scoop of the digger and suggested that the burials had been extended. In the course of the site examination, the toe bones of a second burial, 1m west of the first, were discovered. The in situ remains consisted of a supine extended skeleton in a dug grave just large tough to accommodate the body. As that area of the gravel pit was not going to be worked in future, the in situ remains were preserved on site’ (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 521). Date of upload: 13 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• The Pinnacle, folly, 1765–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding pillar/monument/folly on circular plan and c. five metres in height, dated 1769. Built in rubble limestone with projecting cut stone band at a high level and a shallow domed rubble limestone cap over. Cut stone date stone incised ‘1769’. Located two miles to the east of Glassan on a hilltop with panoramic views over the local countryside.

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).

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