# Rushaun, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamona, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish An Roiseán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,051,543 m² (105.15 ha, 259.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,975 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): N1.1 Infrastructure Safeguard, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilnamona, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilnamona.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Kilnamona, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 959 people lived in 318 households in the Kilnamona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6369 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 32103 - Centre: latitude 52.858975, longitude -9.102208 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushaun, from 266 m² to 170,750 m² (17.07 ha, 42.19 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1454326: 170,750 m² (17.07 ha, 42.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454326.md - Parcel 1504929: 136,847 m² (13.68 ha, 33.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504929.md - Parcel 4077287: 136,430 m² (13.64 ha, 33.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4077287.md - Parcel 1504926: 135,796 m² (13.58 ha, 33.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504926.md - Parcel 1454327: 101,435 m² (10.14 ha, 25.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454327.md - Parcel 1454322: 82,542 m² (8.25 ha, 20.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454322.md - Parcel 1504930: 69,478 m² (6.95 ha, 17.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504930.md - Parcel 2853470: 53,037 m² (5.3 ha, 13.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2853470.md - Parcel 4077285: 43,952 m² (4.4 ha, 10.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4077285.md - Parcel 1454328: 19,027 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454328.md - Parcel 1504927: 11,723 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504927.md - Parcel 1500706: 8,878 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500706.md - Parcel 1446544: 8,467 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1446544.md - Parcel 1496185: 7,674 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496185.md - Parcel 1454323: 5,801 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454323.md - Parcel 1468970: 5,492 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468970.md - Parcel 1445159: 5,214 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1445159.md - Parcel 1520174: 4,975 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520174.md - Parcel 1438133: 4,093 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438133.md - Parcel 1489511: 4,079 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489511.md - Parcel 1519724: 4,036 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519724.md - Parcel 1472737: 3,823 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472737.md - Parcel 1494952: 3,718 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494952.md - Parcel 1498988: 3,390 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1498988.md - Parcel 1429776: 3,342 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429776.md - Parcel 1516641: 3,092 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516641.md - Parcel 3301727: 2,578 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3301727.md - Parcel 1502826: 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1502826.md - Parcel 1508379: 2,430 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508379.md - Parcel 1441771: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441771.md - Parcel 1495056: 2,379 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1495056.md - Parcel 1516116: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516116.md - Parcel 4680906: 684 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680906.md - Parcel 3233686: 357 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3233686.md - Parcel 3303209: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3303209.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - N1.1 Infrastructure Safeguard (Road): Not Applicable, Clare; 14 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 24 Apr 2026, Clare County Council 268004: Unconditional. Permission. to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/268004/0 - 10 Apr 2026, Clare County Council 268003: N/a. Permission. to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/268003/0 - 25 Jul 2024, Clare County Council 24240: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. (P21/492), to construct a dwelling house, and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associted site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24240/0 - 25 Jul 2024, Clare County Council 24241: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. (P21/493), to construct a dwelling house, and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24241/0 - 10 Mar 2022, Clare County Council 22220: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22220/0 - 20 May 2021, Clare County Council 21492: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21492/0 - 20 May 2021, Clare County Council 21493: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21493/0 - 20 May 2021, Clare County Council 21494: Conditional. Permission. to change the site boundaries of an existing dwelling as granted under Planning Permission No. P90-740, with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21494/0 - 20 Nov 2019, Clare County Council 19901: Conditional. Permission. for the following works (A) Change use of existing garage attached to dwelling, to living accommodation, (B) Construct extension to rear and side of the proposed converted garage space and (C) for the use the proposed converted garage space and extended area as a granny flat, all with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19901/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rushaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL033-001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-001----. At the summit of a hill within a coniferous forest. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subcircular scrub-covered area (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m) NW-NE and by a scarp (H 1.8-2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April 2016 - CL033-004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-004----. On a slight rise in a low-lying position with higher ground all around. Marked only on the 1921 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 61.2m N-S; 59.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) at the base of the rise (H c. 1.5m) and a fosse or silted drain (Wth 1-2.5m; D 0.1-0.4m), which widens into a pond (dims. c. 10m) at E. There is no visible entrance, and it may be a drainage feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rushaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rushaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rushaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/rushaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/rushaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/rushaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rushaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyknock: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyknock.md - Cloongowna: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloongowna.md - Garrynagry: https://everytownland.com/clare/garrynagry.md - Islandgar: https://everytownland.com/clare/islandgar.md - Knockatemple: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockatemple.md - Leckaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/leckaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/rushaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/rushaun