Ratrass
Townland in the civil parish of Killucan, barony of Farbill, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 117976
- Area
- 56,750 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it, 646 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
- Ratrass
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Nov 2022Conditional
Planning permission for a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, shared entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2260009
5 Apr 2017Conditional
construction of a four bay cattle shed with ancillary facilities, an underground slatted tank and associated site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176103
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1730–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c.1760 with extension added c.1800. Now derelict and in use as a domestic outbuilding. Hipped corrugated-iron roof to eastern end and hipped slate roof to western-end having cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of mud/earth over battered stone plinth/base. Square-headed window and door openings having timber lintels and timber sheeted doors. Remains of a single four-over-two pane timber sliding sash window survives to rear of mud-walled section and a single two-over-two pane sliding sash window to the front of the later nineteenth century extension. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding with loft level to the north with mud/earth walls over battered stone plinth having hipped corrugated-iron roof over. Square-headed openings now containing timber sheeted doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Raharney with modern house to south. Site is accessed by a concrete pillars and mild steel gate to road edge.
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).
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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
- 105 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 10,927 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratrass, from 40 m² to 256,125 m² (25.61 ha, 63.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ratrass 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
30 Aug 2025Conditional
four bay cattle housing unit with underground slurry storage tank, concrete aprons and all site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560431
13 Nov 2017Conditional
construction of a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, installation of a new septic tank & percolation area, construct new vehicular entrance and all ancillary site services.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176323
3 Nov 2017Conditional
construction of a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, demolition of existing two storey house and sheds, installation of a new septic tank & percolation area, construct a new vehicular entrance and all ancillary site services.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176314
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 Ratrass.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ratrass.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ratrass.
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 Ratrass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ratrass
- Area
- 1,050,002 m² (105 ha, 259.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killucan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farbill
- Electoral division
- Riverdale, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonbore, Grange Beg, Grange More, Riverdale
- Placenames
- Ratrass 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.