Rath Upper

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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Upper 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.

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  Creche with car parking and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197118

• 12 Mar 2019N/a

  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

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197057

• 27 Feb 2018Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, bored well, treatment unit & soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187041

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WM016-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rath Upper.

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 Upper.

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

Name

Rath Upper

Area

709,285 m² (70.93 ha, 175.27 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Noughaval, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafin, Ardnacrany North, Ardnacrany South, Coolvin, Doonamona, Kilcornan, Lissaquill, Rath Lower

Placenames

Rath Upper 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.