Rathgorragh Lower

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathgorragh Lower, from 162 m² to 125,316 m² (12.53 ha, 30.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Rathgorragh Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathgorragh Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122

Recorded monuments

• WI028-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 26m) defined by a stony bank (Wth 2-3.2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.9-1.6m) with slight traces of an external fosse (Wth c. 3.35m) at the NE (upslope). The entrance (Wth 2m) is at the SW. No indication of internal features. 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

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house with attic, built c.1800, but extensively refurbished and attic storey added c.1995. The walls are rendered and painted whilst the gable-ended pitched roof is thatched and has Velux windows and rendered parapets. The entrance consists of a replacement timber tongue and groove door and the flat-headed windows have replacement uPVC frames. The house is set within a small walled enclosure, which also includes a small single storey outbuilding; the enclosure may have been created at the same time as the refurbishment of the house.

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 Rathgorragh Lower, 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 high, 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 Rathgorragh Lower.

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

Name

Rathgorragh Lower

Area

1,742,543 m² (174.25 ha, 430.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Ballinguile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

153 people lived in 51 households in the Ballinguile electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinfoyle Upper, Ballyknockan, Cranareen, Rathgorragh Upper, Slievemaan, Toorboy

Placenames

Rathgorragh Lower 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.