Rathcaled

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcaled, from 59 m² to 181,305 m² (18.13 ha, 44.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Rathcaled 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.

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed with slatted area, feed passage, creep area and ancillary concrete area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560340

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  proposed construction of a two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, site entrance, drilling of a bore hole/well, proprietary secondary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360213

• 13 Jan 2023Refused

  proposed construction of a two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, site entrance, drilling of borehole/well, proprietary secondary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 231

• 12 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with concrete areas with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176178

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM010-022 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Situated in low-lying wet grassland. Annotated as ‘Bull Ring’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. A small sub-rectangular shaped platform (diam. 9m N-S; 8.1m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 0.5m; H 0.25m) and narrow shallow external fosse (Wth 0.3m). At the centre of the interior is a mound of earth and stone (diam. 3.5m N-S; 2.7m E-W) with a fallen, grass-covered stone resting on it (WM010-022001-). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-022001 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated in low-lying wet grassland. Possible fallen standing stone (H 1.15m) now lying on the surface of a possible mound-barrow (WM010-022---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a small gently rising hill, surrounded by gently undulating grassland, with excellent views in all directions. The Irishtown River which marks the boundary with Paddinstown Lower is 140m to S. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) at SSE. The bank is visible from SE-SW, and elsewhere has been levelled. A post-1837 field fence running N-S intersects the monument at SW, and a post-1837 road forms the perimeter of the monument from W-NNW. A long irregular rough surfaced mound of earth and stones with its long axis ENE-WSW is visible across much of the N quadrant of the interior. Two depressions in the W quadrant appear to represent the remains of a souterrain (WM010-023001-). A small mound in the NW quadrant is probably the remains of a trigonometrical station marking the spot height 235 ft. which is depicted on all editions of the 6-inch OS maps. See attached sketch plan of monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-023001 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on top of a small gently rising hill, surrounded by gently undulating grassland, with excellent views in all directions. The Irishtown River which marks the boundary with Paddinstown Lower is 140m to S. A wide shallow depression (dims. 14.7m ENE-WSW; Wth 2.5m; D 1m) aligned ENE-WSW with a shorter depression (dims. 9m NNE-SSW; Wth 2.3m; D 1m), appear to represent the remains of a collapsed souterrain in the W quadrant of a ringfort (WM010-023---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

No address of the register names Rathcaled with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Rathcaled · Ráth Chailéad

Area

1,556,970 m² (155.7 ha, 384.74 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Emper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emper electoral division: 217 people in 82 households; 84% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaglavy, Ballynacarrow, Castlegaddery, Paddinstown Lower, Rath (malone), Relick (longworth)

Placenames

Rathcaled 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.