Rathdrishoge

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathdrishoge, from 17 m² to 413,793 m² (41.38 ha, 102.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Rathdrishoge 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 Rathdrishoge 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 Rathdrishoge.

Recorded monuments

• WM025-138 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to E, S and W. Rathdrishoge Castle depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small square structure with field boundary intersecting the E side of the castle. However on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map the castle is shown as a long rectangular structure, with its long axis aligned ENE-WSW. Castle appears in S quadrant of a large D-shaped enclosure (WM025-138001-). Upstanding remains described in 1971 as the remains of a long rectangular-shaped building (approx. L 36m; Wth 6m) defined by grass-covered wall footings and two short upstanding sections of the SE and SW wall. A portion of the SE wall (L 6m; H 5m) and the centre of the SW wall (L 9m; H 5m) are constructed of rubble stone. The quoin stones visible in the S corner are roughly hewn, and there is no dressed stone visible. Two main subdividing walls which survive as low grass-covered wall footings are noted within the interior. A range of buildings defined by a pair of parallel banks (approx. L 35m; Wth approx. 6-7m) extend at a right angle from the SE end of the NE wall. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments 18/12/1987. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 27 September 2019

• WM025-138001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to E, S and W. Rathdrishoge Castle (WM025-138-----) stands along SW side of large semi-circular shaped enclosure Bivallate enclosure possibly the remains of an castle bawn described in 1978 as the remains of a large roughly semi-circular-shaped area (approx. dims. 60m NE-SW; 45m NW-SE) defined by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is substantial and both it and the outer bank comprise of earth and stone. The perimeter of the earthwork is best preserved along the straight side to SW and from NW-NE. It is quite denuded from NE-E-SE where it is visible as a low, wide grassy bank. This may suggest a possible entrance at this location. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 27 September 2019

• WM025-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in low lying gently undulating wet pasture, with extensive views to SE and SSW. Monument described as a roughly oval-shaped area enclosed by a steep inner earthen bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is almost reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) which has a slight concavity from N-NE, possibly due to part of it having been removed. A small portion of the scarp has been dug away at W. Several later field banks intersect the base of the scarp and it is slightly defaced at SSE for this reason. The intervening fosse is shallow and there are traces of a low outer bank. No entrance feature visible. The interior has a general WNW-facing slope, is fairly even with a slight rise toward the centre. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments 18/12/1987. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 27 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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 Rathdrishoge.

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

Name

Rathdrishoge

Area

1,554,365 m² (155.44 ha, 384.09 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownkindalen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 824 people in 277 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Conranstown, Glomerstown, Rathnamuddagh

Placenames

Rathdrishoge 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.