Rathduff
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyloughloe, barony of Clonlonan, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 100035
- Area
- 142,347 m² (14.23 ha, 35.17 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it, 895 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
- Rathduff
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 2 recorded monuments.
- WM030-030 Castle - tower house
Description
Carn Castle situated on a rise, in gently undulating pasture. Levelled castle which stood in the centre of a bawn (WM030-030001-). Holy well (WM030-029----) named ‘Tobernakill’ lies c. 100m to NW, a settlement cluster (WM030-0123----) lies c. 160m to S. Annotated ‘a castle in repaire’ on the Down Survey map of Ballyloughloe parish and described in the terrier of this map as; ‘In Carne there is a castle in repaire’ (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the castle is depicted as a tower house with a two storey house attached to one side of the tower. In 1641 the castle stood on lands belonging to 'Awly McGawley' who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building enclosed by a bawn wall. Monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Levelled castle is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019
- WM030-030001 Bawn
Description
Carn castle (WM030-030----) and bawn stands on a rise, in gently undulating pasture. Holy well (WM030-029----) named ‘Tobernakill’ lies c. 90m to NW, a settlement cluster (WM030-123---) lies c. 125m to S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped enclosure containing several buildings including ‘Carn Castle’ (WM030-030----) which is shown as a square shaped building in the centre of the bawn. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 52m NE-SW; 45m NW-SE) with a circular-shaped flanking tower at the S, SW and N corners and containing several buildings including ‘Carn Castle (in Ruins)’. On this map the NE wall of the bawn no longer remains upstanding. Monument described in 1973 as the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure. The southern wall has circular corner towers at the ends. The northern wall appears to be relatively modern. The interior is uneven and now houses cattle. There is a hay barn built against the east wall. Some old field banks are visible to S and W. A deep stone lined well or pump hole lies c. 50m to SW. Monument is visible today as a subrectangular-shaped bawn on Digital Globe aerial photography. Bawn described by Salter (2004, 147) as following; 'The 38m long SW side of a bawn built by the Magawley family has a loopholed wall 2.5m high with a circular flanker 4.2m in diameter at each end also with gunloops. Also surviving are the featureless 50m long SE wall, and a retaining wall on the NW side which faced a slope and had a slight angle near the middle of its length'. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019
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).
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map.
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
- 64.7 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 16,798 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathduff, from 836 m² to 153,870 m² (15.39 ha, 38.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathduff 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
12 Aug 2022Conditional
construct 1 no. bungalow, garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and new entrance onto road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22410
11 Feb 2022Conditional
permission to construct 1 no bungalow, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and new entrance onto public road and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2253
19 Nov 2019Conditional
Construction of a proposed two-storey dwelling and domestic garage, a proposed septic tank and percolation area, all associated siteworks, including a proposed bored well and a site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197238
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 Rathduff.
Recorded monuments
- WM030-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise, in pasture, with commanding views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by a scarp, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The outer bank is present from SE-S-WNW and merges with a field wall at E. The interior of the earthwork is uneven whereby some stones project from the surface across the N portion and quarrying has disturbed the S portion. A depression runs inside the scarp from N-NE and then turns S towards the centre. Outline of levelled monument visible today as a earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019
- WM030-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on SE-facing slope of a large ridge running E-W, in pasture, with extensive views to S and overlooked by higher ground to N. A ringfort (WM030-060----) lies c. 180m to W. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 35m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is of earth and stone and the fosse is shallow. The interior is relatively level and there is a stone-lined entrance at E. Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible of ringfort. Levelled monument is visible today as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathduff.
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 Rathduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Rathduff
- Area
- 646,641 m² (64.66 ha, 159.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyloughloe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlonan
- Electoral division
- Mount Temple, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardyduffy, Carnpark, Clonyegan, Nahod Little, Tullaghanshanlin
- Placenames
- Rathduff 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.