Kilrush

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrush, from 633 m² to 297,002 m² (29.7 ha, 73.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Kilrush 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.

• 25 May 2009Conditional

  Demolition of remains of dwelling ruin and construction of dwellinghouse with associated site works including wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5693

• 5 May 2009Incompleted application

  Demolition of remains of existing dwelling ruin and construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works including wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5418

• 13 Aug 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8379

• 28 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8178

• 13 Jun 2007Refused

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/8620

• 5 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of extension to existing cow house incorporating slatted slurry storage and easi-feed, steel overground slurry storage tank, general purpose livestock shed to house suckler cows and cattle over existing slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5664

• 6 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of 72 no. cubicle cow house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13037

• 17 Feb 2006Conditional

  Installation of treatment plant to serve existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4884

• 2 Sept 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6378

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 Kilrush.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilrush.

Architectural heritage

• Kilrush House, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1810, having two-storey return and recent extensions to rear (south). Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with slate hanging to rear elevation. Diminishing camber-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed stairwell window opening with stone sill to rear elevation, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight to upper sash. Front door altered, having square-headed door opening with rusticated split concrete block surround and replacement glazed timber door. Two-storey rubble stone pitched roofed outbuilding to rear. Rendered enclosing walls with capped square-profile piers and gate piers.

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 Kilrush, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilrush.

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 Kilrush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Kilrush · Coill Rois an Gharraí

Area

764,591 m² (76.46 ha, 188.93 acres)

Civil parish

Desertserges, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Boulteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boulteen, Breaghna, Drombofinny, Farrannasheshery, Knockmacool

Placenames

Kilrush 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.