Rathattin
Rathattin is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Ráth Aitinn.
- Area
- 173.3 ha
- 428 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 4,881 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathattin, from 66 m² to 311,602 m² (31.16 ha, 77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathattin 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
6 Jul 2026Refused
single storey house, domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660608
3 Nov 2025N/a
single storey house, domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25313
8 Sept 2025N/a
bungalow, new entrance, deep bored well, on-site treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25260
9 Jul 2025N/a
single storey house, domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25183
27 Mar 2024Unconditional
Bus stop facilities to serve the village of Hollywood
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24148
31 Jul 2023Conditional
the proposed development is the restoration of an existing quarry through the importation of 120,500 tonnes of clean, inert soil and stones over an area of 2.26 hectares to restore the land to an agricultural end use. Permission is also sought for the continued use of a portable wheel wash, temporary staff welfare facilities and other site ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23625
24 Jul 2023N/a
the development will consist/consists of the restoration of an existing quarry through the importation of 120,500 tonnes of clean, inert soil and stones over an area of 2.26 hectares to restore the land to an agricultural end use. Permission is also sought for the continued use of a portable wheel wash, temporary staff welfare facilities and other site ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23615
7 Nov 2022Conditional
2 no. storey & a half type dwellings with 2 no. detached domestic garages, 2 no. individual domestic wastewater treatment systems to current EPA guidelines, with shared entrance and driveway to be combined with the existing farmyard entrance and for all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 221179
6 Apr 2022N/a
2 no. storey & a half type dwellings with 2 no. detached domestic garages, 2 no. individual domestic wastewater treatment systems to current EPA guidelines, to relocate the entrance to the existing homeplace developing in-lieu a replacement shared recessed entrance & access driveway and for all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22338
8 Nov 2021N/a
2 no. storey & a half type dwellings with 2 no. detached domestic garages, 2 no. individual domestic wastewater treatment systems to current EPA guidelines, to relocate the entrance to the existing homeplace developing in-lieu a replacement shared recessed entrance & access driveway and for all associated siteworks
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 211342
31 Oct 2019Conditional
importation and deposition of up to 16,606m3 of inert subsoil and topsoil arising from the N81 Knockroe Bend Realignment project only, for land re-profiling and re-contouring purposes at existing agricultural lands of 1.4 hectares and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191186
15 Feb 2019Conditional
single storey extension to the rear of the existing two storey Club House which will incorporate a ball wall and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19150
12 Feb 2019N/a
single storey extension to rear of existing two storey club house which will incorporate a ball wall and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19128
5 Feb 2018Conditional
reinstate existing sand / gravel pit for agricultural purposes which includes raising existing levels / landscaping and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18106
1 Aug 2017Conditional
single storey dwelling, vehicle entrance, domestic double garage, treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17938
22 Feb 2017Conditional
building of a two storey extension to the rear of the existing two storey Club House which will incorporate a ball wall and returns to the south gable, pitch-side scoreboard and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17192
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Newtown Marshes 001759
Recorded monuments
- WI015-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on low-lying ground in gently undulating terrain. Oval area (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank. The site appears to have been levelled in 1973; visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP, N 354-5). Not visible at ground level. 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/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathattin.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rathattin, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathattin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathattin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Rathattin · Ráth Aitinn
- Area
- 1,733,107 m² (173.31 ha, 428.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Hollywood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 820 people lived in 271 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Athgreany, Dragoonhill, Dunboyke, Knocknastreile, Knockroe, Lemonstown, Newtown, Scalp
- Placenames
- Rathattin 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.