Rathcogue

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcogue, from 4,140 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres) to 568,619 m² (56.86 ha, 140.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathcogue 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathcogue 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 the townland of Rathcogue.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise in flat grassland, now enclosed within a modern forestry plantation. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 35m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is very poorly preserved, reduced to little more than a scarp. The fosse is shallow, and the outer bank is low and poorly preserved; both are only visible from NW-NE. The interior slopes from NW-SE. A post-1700 field fence running E-W intersects the S perimeter of the site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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

Name

Rathcogue

Area

761,242 m² (76.12 ha, 188.11 acres)

Civil parish

Piercetown, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Piercetown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnabohy, Ballincurra, Fiveacres, Moyvore, Piercetown, Williamstown New

Placenames

Rathcogue 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.