Rathshane

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathshane, from 76,663 m² (7.67 ha, 18.94 acres) to 482,112 m² (48.21 ha, 119.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Rathshane 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 Rathshane 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 Rathshane.

Recorded monuments

• WM001-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on elevated W facing slope of Mullaghmeen Hill. Ringfort (WM001-023----) 420m to NW, second ringfort (WM001-026----) 350m to SSE. A heavily overgrown ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 52m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and wide deep fosse with no entrance feature visible. From S to W outside the fosse there are the remains of a low stone wall which appears to be post-1700 in date and probably represents a field boundary. The interior slopes from NE-SW. Inside the ringfort there is a low curving bank of earth and stones the significance of which is unclear. The Wend of the ringfort is cut off by the remains of a low stone wall running N-S through the interior. Near the bank on the W side is a depression which looks like a hut site. However this is probably a more modern feature, the result of digging or the removal of bushes. The overgrown nature of the monument makes detailed examination impossible. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016

• WM001-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W side of Mullaghmeen Hill with extensive views to W and NW but now obscured due to location in modern forestry plantation. Ringfort (WM001-025----) located 360m to NNW. Heavily overgrown ringfort which is impossible to examine due to forestry plantation. A roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 39m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank with traces of an external fosse visible at SE only and an entrance gap at SE. The interior has been planted with coniferous trees and a modern forestry road running NNE-SSW cuts through the SE quadrant of the ringfort. The interior of the site slopes from E-W. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Rathshane

Area

712,808 m² (71.28 ha, 176.14 acres)

Civil parish

Foyran, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Finnea, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Foyran, Mullaghmeen, Tullystown

Placenames

Rathshane 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.