Rathmoon

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmoon, from 75 m² to 419,110 m² (41.91 ha, 103.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Rathmoon 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.

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  sunroom as constructed to the side of existing dwelling and to retain extension as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling, to retain stone facing portions on front elevation of existing dwelling and retention planning permission is sought to retain domestic garage as constructed to the side of existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22831

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling, a balcony area on the rear elevation of the dwelling, a single storey log cabin to the side of the property, a single storey metal profile 2 bay storage shed to the rear of the property and a single storey timber garden shed to the side of the property

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21675

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 Rathmoon.

Recorded monuments

• WI026-006001 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a ridge running N-S, with marked slopes on the SW and SE sides. Circular mound (diam. 20m; H 4m); the outer portion is formed by a low berm (Wth 3m; H 1.5m) possibly representing an eroded bank (Price 1934, 47). A cist (dims. 0.8m x 0.45m; D 0.5m; aligned E-W), S of the centre of the mound, covered by a single capstone was discovered during the destruction of the site in 1958. It contained cremations of three adult females, a newborn and a 6-8 year old child with a flint arrowhead. Not visible at ground level. (Lucas 1960, 84-8) 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

• WI026-006002 Cist
  Description

  In a burial mound (WI026-006001-) situated at the S end of a ridge running N-S. A cist (0.8m x 0.45m; D 0.5m; aligned E-W), S of the centre of the mound and covered by a single capstone, was discovered during the destruction of the site in 1958. It contained cremations of three adult females, a newborn and a 6-8 year-old child with a flint arrowhead. Not visible at ground level. (Lucas 1960, 84-8) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 December 2012

• WI026-009 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low hill in undulating countryside with good views to the S and W. Shown on the 1907 OS 6-inch map as a large, approximately circular enclosure (diam. c. 120m). When visited in 1989 the W portion of the site was on the edge of a pasture field and was well defined, while the E portion, in a barley field, had been destroyed. The bank has been destroyed since then, apart from a slight scarp visible at the S. 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

• WI026-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of enclosure (approx. diam. 27m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Hilltop enclosure (WI026-009----) 285m to SE. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 26 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathmoon, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2692 (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 Rathmoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Rathmoon

Area

1,141,772 m² (114.18 ha, 282.14 acres)

Civil parish

Baltinglass, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Baltinglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,029 people lived in 1,075 households in the Baltinglass electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baltinglass West, Bawnoge, Carrigeen South (Co. Kildare), Carrigeenhill (Co. Kildare), Irongrange Lower, Knockanreagh

Placenames

Rathmoon 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.