Rathshane
Townland in the civil parish of Foyran, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 86355
- Area
- 482,112 m² (48.21 ha, 119.13 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Rathshane
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.
- 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
- WM001-057 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Description
Balnacart corn mill and mill race may have been built on the site of the watermill depicted in the townland of Rathshane on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore barony (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the watermill is shown standing at the meeting point of the townland boundaries of Foyran and Rathshane in the area where Balnacart Mill is depicted on the OS 6-inch maps. The present corn mill was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as following, 'Detached two-storey corn mill on L-shaped plan, built c.1810 and altered c.1900. Restored c.2000 and now in use as a private house. Joint lines along structure indicate that section to south is a later extension. Pitched artificial slate roof with raised rendered verges. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone. Square-headed openings having replacement timber casement windows and timber sheeted doors. Restored cast-iron waterwheel to west side, set into original cast-iron overshot watercourse. Remains of single-storey rubble limestone outbuilding to the southwest having pitched corrugated-iron roof over and square-headed openings. Ruins of a small corn kiln remain to the north and silted-up mill pond to the southeast. Original millrace ran from pond to the southeast, over wheel and through culvert under the road and away to the northwest. Located to the southeast of Finnea close to border with Co. Meath to the east' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 July 2015
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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; KML, for Google Earth.
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
- 71.3 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 156,211 m² (15.62 ha, 38.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
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 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Rathshane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathshane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- 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
- Census 2022
- Finnea electoral division: 248 people in 102 households; 81% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- 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. 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.