Rath

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 574 m² to 606,137 m² (60.61 ha, 149.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rath 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.

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  the installation of a new photovoltaic solar module system on two existing south facing single storey roofs at Rathwood Garden Centre, comprising of 295 photovoltaic modules

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21537

• 19 May 2020Refused

  single storey residence, installation of a septic tank and wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20460

• 3 Dec 2019Conditional

  farm shed for animal housing approximately 630 sqm in size, to include a slatted underground effluent tank with approx. 475 cubic metre capacity

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191294

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  demolish existing dwelling and erect a dwelling with domestic garage as a replacement and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171419

• 11 Sept 2017Conditional

  single storey extension including double garage to the side and front of existing dormer style dwelling, use of existing on site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171102

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 Rath.

Recorded monuments

• WI042-004 Cist
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle S-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. Cremation and two Middle Neolithic pottery vessels from a cist. No visible remains. (Prendergast 1959, 17-29) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2008 The attached document displays a photograph of the cist.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rath, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2773 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Rath · An Ráth

Area

1,286,922 m² (128.69 ha, 318.01 acres)

Civil parish

Ardoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Rath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

287 people lived in 106 households in the Rath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardoyne, Killinure, Knockloe, Rath East, Tullowclay

Placenames

Rath 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.