Bushypark
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Mothar an Bhainbh
- Area
- 135.5 ha
- 335 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 3,340 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bushypark, from 55 m² to 208,912 m² (20.89 ha, 51.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bushypark 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
26 Jun 2025Conditional
of developed attic space in dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25209
20 Jun 2024Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission for P 18/967 for development at Bushypark Addiction and Treatment Centre, Bushypark, Ennis, Co. Clare. Bushypark House is a protected structure RPS No. 044. The development will consist of (1) the construction of a single storey rear extension to Bushypark House comprising bedroom accommodation, social spaces, group rooms, kitchen and associated spaces, staff offices and storage facilities, (2) internal renovations to Bushypark House comprising of change of use of bedrooms to office accommodation, (3) construction of a new carpark, together with associated site development works and services
Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 24197
8 Nov 2023Conditional
to (a) construct a new dwelling house complete with a sewage treatment system and (b) change of use from an outbuilding to domestic garage to include completion of same, along with ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360468
10 Aug 2023Conditional
to demolish existing single storey rear extension and to construct a new single storey rear extension, upgrading of existing sewerage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23437
31 Aug 2022Conditional
to add an extension to existing garage and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22778
7 Nov 2019Conditional
to erect a playground with all ancillary site works at Bushypark Addiction and Treatment Centre. Bushypark house is a Protected Structure RPS no, 044.
Permission · Clare County Council, 19871
14 May 2019Conditional
for development consisting of: A) Demolition of 2 no. existing straw bedded sheds and 2 no. existing storage sheds. B) Construction of a cow cubicle house with underground slatted slurry storage tanks. C) Construction of a storage shed and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19381
25 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a dwelling with onsite wastewater treatment and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19135
28 Nov 2018Conditional
for development at Bushypark Addiction and Treatment Centre, Bushypark, Ennis, Co. Clare. Bushypark House is a protected structure RPS No. 044. The development will consist of (1) the construction of a single storey rear extension to Bushypark House comprising bedroom accommodation, social spaces, group rooms, kitchen and associated spaces, staff offices and storage facilities, (2) internal renovations to Bushypark House comprising of change of use of bedrooms to office accommodation, (3) construction of a new carpark, together with associated site development works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 18967
7 Aug 2018Refused
to construct an entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, advanced wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, together with all ancillary site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18636
5 Mar 2018Conditional
to change the design of dwelling previously granted under existing planning permission No. P17-142, with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18152
23 Nov 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of a) RETENTION of a domestic garage as constructed and b) RETENTION of two windows to the southern elevation of the existing dwelling house together with ancillary site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 17901
2 Mar 2017Conditional
to construct a replacement dwelling for the existing derelict dwelling on the site, construct garage, install effluent treatment system and create a new entrance from public road, all with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17142
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bushypark.
Recorded monuments
- CL033-061 Ringfort - cashel
Description
At the crest of a S-facing slope in a karst landscape. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32.2m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4.7-7.7m; int. H 0.5m at S to 1.4-1.8m generally; ext. H 1.4-1.6m). Internal and external facing stones can be intermittently seen, especially externally NNW-E (original Wth 3.2m at N and E). There is no visible entrance and the inner face of the wall is re-built ENE-ESE (ext. diam. 36.6m N-S; 32.2m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 April 2017
- CL033-158 Cairn - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Bushypark House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey over part-raised basement former house, built c. 1820, with recessed central entrance bay approached by flight of steps and two-bay two-storey return with single-bay single-storey lean-to end bay. Now in use as health centre. Hipped artificial slate roof with sprocketted eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins. Channelled render walls to basement. Render architraves to timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-arch door opening with timber panelled double leaf doors flanked by sidelights with cobweb fanlight above. Retaining interior features. Detached single-bay two-storey rubble stone summer house, with single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch added to front, c. 1990. Cut-stone stone gate piers to site with wrought-iron double leaf gates.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_478 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bushypark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Bushypark · Mothar an Bhainbh
- Area
- 1,355,334 m² (135.53 ha, 334.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Kilnamona, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilnamona electoral division: 959 people in 318 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyneillan, Cragleagh, Drumcaran Beg, Drumcaran More, Fountain, Gortmore, Shallee
- Placenames
- Bushypark 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.