# Rath, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardoyne, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Ráth. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,286,922 m² (128.69 ha, 318.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,638 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardoyne, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/ardoyne.md - Barony: Shillelagh - Electoral division: Rath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55907 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251158 - Centre: latitude 52.793761, longitude -6.671791 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rath, from 574 m² to 606,137 m² (60.61 ha, 149.78 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1289510: 606,137 m² (60.61 ha, 149.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289510.md - Parcel 1263468: 120,242 m² (12.02 ha, 29.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263468.md - Parcel 1271462: 111,849 m² (11.18 ha, 27.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271462.md - Parcel 1282237: 93,087 m² (9.31 ha, 23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282237.md - Parcel 5385119: 69,462 m² (6.95 ha, 17.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5385119.md - Parcel 1256986: 57,635 m² (5.76 ha, 14.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256986.md - Parcel 1274207: 44,974 m² (4.5 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274207.md - Parcel 1283558: 42,402 m² (4.24 ha, 10.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283558.md - Parcel 5125137: 29,774 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5125137.md - Parcel 1292493: 25,249 m² (2.52 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292493.md - Parcel 1282261: 22,656 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282261.md - Parcel 1260935: 6,638 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260935.md - Parcel 5081301: 4,442 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5081301.md - Parcel 1256616: 4,168 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256616.md - Parcel 1276797: 4,101 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276797.md - Parcel 1259967: 3,934 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259967.md - Parcel 1258963: 3,433 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258963.md - Parcel 1277694: 2,917 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277694.md - Parcel 5569909: 2,309 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5569909.md - Parcel 1277196: 2,207 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277196.md - Parcel 1277544: 1,766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277544.md - Parcel 1273509: 692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273509.md - Parcel 1249852: 574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249852.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 11 May 2021, Wicklow County Council 21537: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21537/0 - 19 May 2020, Wicklow County Council 20460: Refused. Permission, 1 home. single storey residence, installation of a septic tank and wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20460/0 - 3 Dec 2019, Wicklow County Council 191294: Conditional. Permission. farm shed for animal housing approximately 630 sqm in size, to include a slatted underground effluent tank with approx. 475 cubic metre capacity. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191294/0 - 29 Nov 2017, Wicklow County Council 171419: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolish existing dwelling and erect a dwelling with domestic garage as a replacement and all associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171419/0 - 11 Sept 2017, Wicklow County Council 171102: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171102/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rath. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI042-004: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI042-004----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rath. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2773.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rath.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rath.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rath.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardoyne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ardoyne.md - Killinure: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killinure.md - Knockloe: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockloe.md - Rath East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rath-east.md - Tullowclay: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tullowclay.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rath - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/rath