Rathbane

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbane, from 440 m² to 209,945 m² (20.99 ha, 51.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Rathbane 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.

• 20 May 2026N/a

  1. a livestock shed with underground slatted tank and straw bedded area. 2 a straw bedded livestock shed. retention permission for the construction of two existing straw bedded livestock sheds and one livestock shed with underground slatted tank and concrete silage pit

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660441

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling & domestic shed, permission for the construction of a replacement dormer style dwelling, bored well, septic tank & percolation area, use of existing entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360523

• 14 Dec 2022N/a

  proposed new dwelling, new garage, a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new access lane, a new vehicular entrance off public road and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221339

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  proposed new dwelling, new garage, well, a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new access lane, a new vehicular entrance off the public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22264

• 9 Mar 2022N/a

  construction of (1) dwelling house (2) wastewater treatment system with a sand polishing filter (3) bored water well (4) site entrance from public road and (5) associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22211

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 Rathbane.

Recorded monuments

• WI033-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope overlooking a stream valley. Oval site (dims. 22.5m NW-SE; 27.25m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth c. 2m). There are no internal features, no traces of a fosse and no definite entrance. Shown as a circular area on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as a small rectangular field on the 1907 OS 6-inch map. 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

• WI033-012 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a marked ENE-facing slope. Oval site (int. dims. 5.1m E-W; 4m N-S) defined by a low earth and stone bank, with a revetment of stone visible in places. There is a possible entrance at the E. The OS Name Books mention 'two small raths' in this townland, possibly small enclosures or hut sites. 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 Rathbane.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

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 Rathbane.

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 Rathbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Rathbane · An Ráth Bhán

Area

1,360,020 m² (136 ha, 336.07 acres)

Civil parish

Hacketstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballybeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

217 people lived in 71 households in the Ballybeg electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnaboy, Ballysallagh Lower (Co. Carlow), Knockananna, Knocknaboley, Rathnagrew Lower (Co. Carlow), Rathnagrew Upper (Co. Carlow), Rathshanmore West

Placenames

Rathbane 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.