# Rath Upper, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Noughaval, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 709,285 m² (70.93 ha, 175.27 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,448 m² (2.94 ha, 7.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Noughaval, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/noughaval.md - Barony: Kilkenny West - Electoral division: Noughaval, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Noughaval electoral division: 417 people in 131 households; 95% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51104 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231112 - Centre: latitude 53.509809, longitude -7.774228 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath Upper, from 2,417 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 136,115 m² (13.61 ha, 33.63 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 114859: 136,115 m² (13.61 ha, 33.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/114859.md - Parcel 92086: 89,551 m² (8.96 ha, 22.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/92086.md - Parcel 115240: 81,931 m² (8.19 ha, 20.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/115240.md - Parcel 115028: 63,004 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/115028.md - Parcel 91699: 46,582 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/91699.md - Parcel 115262: 43,293 m² (4.33 ha, 10.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/115262.md - Parcel 92036: 38,676 m² (3.87 ha, 9.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/92036.md - Parcel 91697: 33,012 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/91697.md - Parcel 91442: 29,586 m² (2.96 ha, 7.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/91442.md - Parcel 115026: 29,311 m² (2.93 ha, 7.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/115026.md - Parcel 3487154: 23,394 m² (2.34 ha, 5.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487154.md - Parcel 92087: 6,130 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/92087.md - Parcel 4942252: 4,093 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942252.md - Parcel 5174187: 3,592 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174187.md - Parcel 5513155: 3,259 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5513155.md - Parcel 114931: 2,594 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/114931.md - Parcel 115032: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/115032.md - Parcel 2735112: 2,417 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2735112.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rath Upper 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 29 May 2019, Westmeath County Council 197118: Conditional. Permission. Creche with car parking and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/197118/0 - 12 Mar 2019, Westmeath County Council 197057: N/a. Permission. Planning permission for a pre-school to replace garage previously granted under planning ref 18/7041 and all associated site works at Rath Upper, Tang, Co Westmeath. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/197057/0 - 27 Feb 2018, Westmeath County Council 187041: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, bored well, treatment unit & soil polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/187041/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Rath Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM016-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM016-029----. Situated on a slight rise in an area of wet marshy land near a stream while lies 50m to the N and forms the townland boundary with Coolvin. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening shallow fosse. The inner bank is poorly preserved and fragmentary, the wide fosse has been infilled at S and W, and the low outer bank is only visible at N. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 September 2018 - WM016-030: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM016-030----. Situated on NE facing slope of a slight rise in grassland, with good views from NW-N. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair plan map as a D-shaped enclosure and annotated on map as ‘fort’. Remains consist of a large sub-triangular shaped area (approx. dims. 48m NW-SE; 51m NE-SW) enclosed by a curving earthen bank from WSW-N-E, and by two straight field fences which form the straight sides of the site from NE-S and from S-W. The interior slopes slightly from W-E. The site was originally a circular shaped monument and there are visible indications of the cropmark of the levelled enclosing element on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 September 2018 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 Rath Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 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 Upper. - 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/westmeath/rath-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rath-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rath-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rath Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghafin: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/aghafin-230010.md - Ardnacrany North: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardnacrany-north.md - Ardnacrany South: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardnacrany-south.md - Coolvin: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/coolvin.md - Doonamona: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/doonamona.md - Kilcornan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kilcornan.md - Lissaquill: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lissaquill.md - Rath Lower: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rath-lower.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rath-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/rath-upper