Rathaniska

Area

64,972 m² (6.5 ha, 16.05 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it, 46 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

Rathaniska

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 1 recorded monument.

• WM011-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The monument was surveyed in 1980 and described as following; ‘This is a roughly circular earthwork bounded by an uneven scarp, now much defaced with a wide shallow fosse at its foot from north to east the fosse is represented by a fairly flat ledge, beyond which the ground falls away naturally. From east to south to west to north there is a wide low outer bank of earth beyond the fosse. The interior is quite uneven with rises & a general slope from the centre towards the SE. The interior measures approx. 29m NW-SE by approx. 27m NE-SW. Sited on the lower slope of a NE facing rise’ (SMR File 15/10/1980). Outline of monument clearly visible on aerial photograph taken in 1966 (CUCAP APE035/036) which shows the monument standing inside a larger rectangular enclosure or field. The outline of this monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Monument revisited in 1981 and described as following; ‘Site noted from St. Joseph (CUCAP APE036) and G. S. [Geological Survey] Air photographs in 1976. The site appears to be a destroyed ringfort. On the northern sloping face of a steepish hill. The site appears to be circular, or perhaps slightly oval (int. diam. 32.5m N-S; 32m E-W). The raised interior in enclosed by a fosse, with traces of an outer bank to the S, E & W. On the northern side the fosse and outer bank have been interfered with by old field fences which appear to have respected the site. These have since been removed, and have dug into the side of the platform on which the site is dug. There is no trace of an entrance or of any internal features on the site such as traces of house platforms or traces of a souterrain. The interior rises approx. 50cm from the fosse on the S, E and W, gently sloping into disturbed field boundary. The fosse is 3.5m-4m wide. The outer bank rises 50cm from fosse on the E, up to 70cm from the fosse on the S and W. The outer bank is approx. 3m wide all around, and is up to 30cm above the surrounding ground on S and W, level on E. Destroyed on N and NE. Possible slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth 3.5m) on W only, cutting the site off from the western end of the terace on which it is sited’ (SMR File 30/03/1981). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 6 October 2015

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.