Rathaniska
Townland in the civil parish of Leny, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 134700
- Area
- 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 146 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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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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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.
- Area
- 48.9 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 14,841 m² (1.48 ha, 3.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathaniska, from 57 m² to 138,144 m² (13.81 ha, 34.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathaniska 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Rathaniska 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathaniska.
Recorded monuments
- WM011-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on gently rising ground in grassland. Ringfort (WM011-018---) 240m to NW. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (H 1m with entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at WSW. The bank has been levelled from NNE-ENE. The interior slopes gently from SW-NE. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 June 2017
Architectural heritage
- Farra Cottage, house, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1865, having an earlier house attached to the rear (south). Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having exposed rather tails and with a central pair of cut stone chimneystacks having brick detailing. Snecked limestone/calp walls with flush limestone quoins to the corners and flush brick block-and-start detailing to the openings. Segmental-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed doorway to the main façade (north) having brick block-and-start surrounds, an early timber panelled door and a plain glass overlight. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the east side of house having hipped natural slate roofs, a projecting stone eaves course, coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed doorways with timber sheeted doors and a segmental-headed carriage arch to the east side of the 'L', having timber sheeted double doors. Segmental-headed window opening to the west end of outbuilding having brick surrounds matching detailing of windows to the house. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Bunbrosna. Main entrance gates to the east having a pair of timber gate posts supporting cast-iron double gates.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathaniska with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Rathaniska
- Area
- 489,378 m² (48.94 ha, 120.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaree
- Electoral division
- Ballinalack, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvade, Farrow, Leny, Rathbennett
- Placenames
- Rathaniska on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.