Rush

More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland: too many to draw here.

• R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• M2TC - Town and District Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• R1RA - Residential Area (New/proposed residential)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan
• C7RB - Rural Business (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Aug 2026Referral

  Planning Permission for construction of new pre-fabricated, detached d

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0732E

• 12 Aug 2026Referral

  For the construction of 3no. three bedroom with study two storey detac

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0726E

• 20 Jul 202635 day assessment

  Planning Permission is sought for construction of a new 3 bedroomed de

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0652E

• 20 Jul 2026Invalid application

  Retention Permission in respect of the works carried out to existing d

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0650E

• 13 Jul 2026Refuse permission

  The proposed development comprises of 2 no. three bedroom two storey s

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0612E

• 24 Jun 2026Request additional information

  A detached sauna, along with ancillary items: ice baths; plunge barrel

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0547E

• 19 Jun 2026Grant permission

  The proposed development will comprise: (i) demolition of existing si

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0531E

• 12 Jun 2026Grant permission

  Replacement of existing temporary boat storage facilities, with constr

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0502E

• 11 Jun 2026Grant permission

  1. a single storey porch extension to the front ( northwest). 2. a sin

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0494

• 9 Jun 2026Request additional information

  Permission for development on this site located on lands to the east o

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0483E

• 5 Jun 2026Invalid application

  Replacement of existing temporary boat storage facilities, with constr

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0473E

• 5 Jun 2026Withdraw application

  Permission for development on this site located on lands to the east o

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0471E

• 25 May 2026Grant permission

  The development will consist of the construction of a detached dormer

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0434E

• 19 May 2026Grant permission

  Planning permission for attic conversion with roof windows to front to

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0403E

• 14 May 2026Invalid application due to site notice

  The development will consist of the construction of a detached dormer

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0391E

• 13 May 2026Request additional information

  Greenleaf Homes Limited intends to apply for PERMISSION for developmen

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0384E

• 8 May 2026Withdraw application

  Fingal County Council I Luis Miguel intend to apply for Planning perm

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0361E

• 27 Apr 2026Refuse outline permission

  the demolition of an existing chalet, the construction of a replacemen

  Outline permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0337E

• 20 Apr 2026Refuse permission & refuse retention

  Retention of a horticultural shed, apiarist processing area,

  Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0315E

• 4 Apr 2026Request additional information

  Retention Planning Permission for renovation works to existing propert

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0276E

• 24 Mar 2026Refuse permission

  Permission for the construction of one new detached dwelling, amendmen

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0230E

• 24 Mar 2026Grant permission

  The demolition of an existing garage, and the construction of one new

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0227E

• 13 Mar 2026Request additional information

  Planning Permission is sought for retention for conversion of existin

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0190E

• 12 Mar 2026Refuse permission

  1. Demolition of existing single storey derelict cottage c. 59sqm and

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0182E

• 3 Mar 2026Grant permission

  Permission for the construction of a single storey home gym and all as

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0149E

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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: Rogerstown Estuary SAC 000208
• Special Protection Area: Rogerstown Estuary SPA 004015
• Special Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rogerstown Estuary 000208

Recorded monuments

• DU008-012 Windmill
  Description

  Situated on an artificial rise in a triangular green within Rush Village. This is a three-storey, cylindrical-shaped tower (ext. diam.6.10m, wall T 0.95m). It is built of randomly coursed masonry, which was once rendered. Now covered in graffiti. There is a relieving arch on the E side. It has opposed doorways in the N and S with flat segmental arches. These have been secured with metal doors. The interior is lit by slit opes above the doors in the SE and NNE. A basement feature extends south east of the tower (L 2m). (Healy 1975, 20). The vault arch has been stabilized. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 December 2014

• DU008-013001 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Situated on a small headland south of Loughshinney village. Prior to c. 1838 the site comprised a circular cairn (diam. c. 30m) with a funnel-shaped entrance and a rectangular chamber (L 2.4m; Wth 1.8m). Human bones were found in the chamber and midden material containing a possible microlith (DU008-013003)-) was found underneath (Newenham 1838, 247; Flanagan 1984, 15). Two cist burials were found in the cairn and a third W of the kerbstones (DU008-013002-).The cairn was partially removed by land improvement in 1838, the remainder incorporated into a field boundary. Remains of this field boundary extend almost from the cliff edge for c. 21m NS. Large stones (> 1m diam.) and small stone cairn material are visible within the overgrown field boundary. One large boulder is out lying c.2m south-east of the field boundary. No markings or decoration visible on these stones. Magnetic gradiometry undertaken by the Discovery Programme (Licence 08R247) did not succeed in establishing a location for the passage tomb as a large part of the area had been subject to intensive ploughing. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 December 2014

• DU008-013002 Cist
  Description

  Two cist burials were found in the cairn of a passage tomb (DU008-013001-) and a third lay W of the kerbstones (Newenham 1838, 247; Ó Ríordáin 1968, 165). The cist at the N end of the cairn contained a food vessel and skeletal remains, the cist at the E contained a food vessel and cremation. The cist burial outside the cairn contained a human skull (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 176-180). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU008-013003 Midden
  Description

  Midden material containing a possible microlith was found underneath a passage tomb (DU008-013001-) situated on a small headland S of Loughshinney Village (Flanagan 1984, 15). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU008-014 Well
  Description

  This is a very overgrown, enclosed well on the south side of a stream at the junction of Brook Lane and Farrans Lane in Rush Village. No local tradition of veneration. Some kerbing left but essentially a spring. Locally known as source of drinking water for cottage on opposite side of the lane. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 December 2014

• DU008-015 Martello tower
  Description

  Rush Martello Tower No. 8 (Kerrigan 1995, 174). According to Kerrigan (1995, 168) construction of the Dublin area Martello Towers and their batteries commenced in 1804 under the supervision of Colonel Benjamin Fisher of the Royal Engineers and by December 1805 all towers were armed and complete. Kerrigan (ibid.) recorded that; 'Twelve towers were constructed north of Dublin: each tower mounted one 24-pounder, apart from the tower on Ireland's Eye with two 24-pounders. No batteries were constructed with these towers'. Located in a private garden on Harbour Road overlooking the E coast. Two pillars on the street indicate land entrance to tower. Access now completely overgrown. This is a squat cylindrical tower with a parapet level marked by offsets. The entrance is in the W. It has a rendered finish which has begun to fall away especially around the door. Bricked features have been added to roof. There are flat roofed chalets built around the tower (Kerrigan 1996, 175). It sat within a circular stone boundary wall now visible as a low circular bank and fencing. It was manned by a full complement of artillerymen until the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815. It was then occupied by an invalid Gunner of the Royal artillery until at least 1830. The tower was handed over to the Coast Guard in 1865. It was sold in the 1930's by the Minister for Defence (Bolton et al. 2012, 169). Martello Tower described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Martello tower, c.1805, on a circular plan with tapered profile, having machicolation above former entrance' (NIAH Reg. No. 11324023; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11324023/rush-martello-tower-fingal) See attached plans of Rush Martello Tower No. 8 courtesy of the Irish Military Archives - Archival Reference Code: IE/MA/MPD/ad134124-004 Photo © Eirian Evans (cc-by-sa/2.0) DU008-015----_02 Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3110, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, County Library, Town Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 January 2023

• DU008-022 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  This is a natural spring well in a hollow at the base of a cliff. No tradition of devotion. (Ó Danachair 1958, 74). Known as Tober Caillin it survives as a slight pooling of water on rocky foreshore. Holy well described in 1975 as a; 'small stream flowing down onto rocky strand. No regular pool but one or two natural hollows. Fragment of wall just above high tide water mark may have been intended to collect water' (Henry A. Wheeler 20/05/1975, SMR File). Folklore collected from Rush School recorded the following tradition about this well; 'There is another well on the South Strand called "Tubber Colleen," (St Mac Cuilín, Lusk) but no saints name connected with it. If a stranger takes a drink out of this well it is said that he will make his home in Rush' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 61; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4498364/4384286). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023

• DU008-072 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Pre-development monitoring of soil-stripping revealed an area of charcoal-blackened soil with fragments of burnt bone and a shallow gully which ran E-W (L 17.5m, D 0.15m). This contained heat-split fragments of burnt bone associated with 95 sherds of Late Bronze Age coarse vessels representing 5 vessels c. 1200-800 BC (Meenan, R.2008, 121). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU008-090 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Possible promontory fort described by Casey (2003, 17) as follows; ‘A 4m wide straight earthen bank, probably a field boundary, cuts off a subrectangular headland measuring 90m long and 90m wide. The former presence of a megalithic tomb on the site and a possible levelled enclosure close to the north-eastern corner as well as the substantial bank, shows that the headland was occupied in the past and may suggest that the headland was a defended promontory fort. However, not enough remains to be certain. The area is one of flat fertile tillage, mainly market gardens, and the promontory is surrounded by a low cliff with access to the shore difficult but possible.’

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraces two-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1850, on an L-shaped plan with projecting entrance porch.ROOF: Double pitch thatched roof with rendered coping and brick and rendered chimney stacks. WALLS: Pebble dashed. OPENINGS: Square headed rendered reveals, concrete cills, timber casements, c1970, timber panelled and glazed door, c.1980.

• Saint Maur's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, c.1845, site enclosed by wrought-iron railings.ROOF: Hipped asbestos tiled; terracotta ridge tiles; rendered chimney stacks; yellow terracotta chimney pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Rendered lined and ruled; rendered quoining. OPENINGS: Square headed windows; rendered soffits; reveals & cills; uPVC eliptical headed front door; reproduction doorcase and timber and stained glass door having original console brackets which support moulded timber cornice.

• Saint Maur's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1755–1765 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1760, with six bays to side elevation. Transepts added, c.1820, square profile bell tower and polygonal apse added c.1860. Several gabled single-bay additions. ROOF:T-plan; double pitched; slate; cast-iron cresting; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS:Coursed rubble; nap rendered plinth and string courses; sandstone quoins to tower. OPENINGS: Sandstone hood mouldings; pointed arched openings with sandstone reveals; leaded stained glass windows; timber panelled doors with ornate hinges. INTERIOR: Rib vaulted ceilings; stained glass windows by Early Bros., Dublin; decorative paint work to apse; marble altar and memorial plaques; rear gallery with balustrade supported by marble arcade; terracotta tiling to porches.

• House, 1850–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1880.ROOF: Double-pitched thatched roof; red brick chimney pots. WALLS: Cement rendered; rubble-stone gable wall; may be remainder of former house to left. OPENINGS: Square-headed; rendered reveals; probably original 3/6 timber sash windows; timber panelled door, c.1980.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1905, with 'ER VII' monogram.

• Sion House, house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace three-bay two-storey house, c.1845, with projecting entrance porch. Two-storey extension to rear.ROOF: M - profile; slate terracotta pots & roof ridge tiles; rendered chimney stack; uPVC rainwater goods. WALLS: Nap renderd walls; lined and ruled rendered quoins; rendered plinth course with metal ventilation grilles; rendered cornice to porch. OPENINGS: Square headed windows; rendered and chamfered soffits and reveals; painted granite cills; timber panelled door; glass overlight, chamfered door surround contained in projecting flat roofed nap rendered porch with cornice; metal cill guards to ground floor ground floor; 2/2 timber sash windows; timber top hung casement to rear extension.

• Desio, house, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house with attic storey, c.1875. Three-bay extension to rear, c.1990.ROOF: Double-pitched thatch roof with decorative roped ridging and eaves; cement rendered stack; concrete asbestos tiles to extension; plastic rainwater goods to extension. WALLS: Cement rendered. OPENINGS: Square-headed; rendered reveals; granite cills; timber sash windows, c.2000, timber door, c.2000, uPVC windows to extension.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of square profile with a curved handle.

• Harbour/dock/port, 1820–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Harbour, c.1835, with dressed and rubble limestone pier and seawall.

• Mill (wind), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Windmill, c.1800, with rubble stone walls, now in ruined condition. WALLS:Random rubble limestone. OPENINGS: Segmental headed, limestone rubble reveals with mild steel gate enclosing entrance. Square headed narrow window openings.

• House, 1750–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey rendered mud-walled thatched house, c.1800. Single-storey extension to rear, c.1960.ROOF:Double pitched thatch with small rendered chimney stack. WALLS: Nap rendered front elevation with rendered dressings and granite coping to parapet wall; nap rendered plinth right side elevation with rendered coping on gable wall and exposed section of mud wall. OPENINGS: Square headed with renderd reveals, stone cills and fixed panes currently boarded up, timber panelled door, c.1980.

• Tigín, house, 1750–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1780. Single-bay extension to rear, c.1930. Rubble stone shed to rear of site, c.1880.ROOF: Double pitched thatched. WALLS: Nap rendered with plinth. OPENINGS: Low square headed door with rendered reveals, tongue and groove door leaf; square headed window; rendered reveals, no cills.

• Shamrock Cottage, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1850, with projecting entrance porch.ROOF: Double pitched thatch roof with a nap rendered chimney stack; corrugated iron and thatch to porch. WALLS: Nap rendered, ruled and lined with rendered dressings. OPENINGS:S quare headed with rendered reveals, stone cills, probably original 2/2 timber sash windows; small timber windows with margin panes, probably original, tongue and grooved timber door with overlight.

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of square profile. Now missing parts.

• House, 1750–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1780.ROOF: Steeply thatched double pitched, concrete coping to gables, overhanging thatched eaves. WALLS: Rough cast render to front elevation having nap rendered plinth wall; nap rendered gable. OPENINGS: Square headed; patent reveals; painted stone cills; uPVC casement windows; replacement door.

• House, 1720–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey thatched house, c.1760, with projecting entrance porch, c.1920. Associated wit Jack the Bachelor, a notorious eighteenth century smuggler.ROOF: Double pitched thatched with a central rendered chimney stack. WALLS: Rough cast render and rendered coping to gable walls, nap plinth course and surrounding porch. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered reveals; granite cills; probably original, 2/2 timber sash windows, narrow, small window opening to first floor; projecting porch with square headed opening and timber door, c.1980.

• Rush Martello Tower, martello tower, 1800–1810 · National interest
  Description

  Martello tower, c.1805, on a circular plan with tapered profile, having machicolation above former entrance.ROOF:Hidden behind thick parapet; red brick wall built on roof, now ruinous. WALLS: Nap rendered. OPENINGS: Square headed, rendered reveals, tongue and grooved timber panelled door set high into wall; numerous square haded, square shaped window openings.

• The Thatched Cottage, house, 1740–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1780, with projecting entrance porch. Single-storey extension to left-hand side, c.1950.ROOF: Double pitched; thatched, raised rendered gable ends, three small rendered chimney stacks, clay tiled roof to extension, slate roof to porch roof. WALLS: Nap rendered to thatched house, rouogh cast render to extension. OPENINGS: Square headed windows; rendered reveals; painted granite cills; single pane sash windows; small timber casement window to gable end indicating loft to interior; tongue and groove door.

• The Old Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland rectory with half-dormer attic, built 1866, on an T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch abutting single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bay. Designed by James Edward Rogers (1838-96) who also designed the nearby Kenure Church (see 11324026). ROOF: Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on gablet; pitched slate roof (west), terracotta ridge tiles, snecked limestone chimney stacks having red brick stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping, timber bargeboards on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Red brick banded snecked rock faced limestone walls. OPENINGS: Pointed segmental-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and one-over-one timber sash windows. INTERIOR: Intact. SITE: Set back from road in landscaped grounds with margined tooled limestone ashlar piers having pyramidal capping and cast-iron double gates.

• Kenure Church (Lusk), church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built 1866. Four-bay side elevation to nave with a single-bay apse to the east, having an adjoining vestry. Gable-fronted projecting entrance porch. Designed by James Edward Rogers.ROOF: Double pitched; slate; terracotta ridge tiles; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Tooled and snecked limestone; sandstone string courses. OPENINGS: Bi-partite Portland stone lancet windows; leaded diamond panes; tri-partite window to chancel; rose window to opposite gable; pointed arched doorcase; Portland stone carved capitals; sandstone columns; polychromatic stone voussoirs above opening; replacement timber doors.

• W.F. Price, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1890, with plaster and timber shopfront to ground floor.ROOF: Double pitched; asbestos tiles; red brick corniced chimney stacks with clay pots; uPVC rainwater goods. WALLS: Nap rendered, lined and ruled, partially remaining nap rendered quoining. OPENINGS: Painted timber panelled stallrisers with timber cill support two square headed fixed display windows having three upper panes while lower pane is divided in two by mullions, display windows flank two leaf timber panelled doors with fixed overlight above; uPVC timber casement windows to first floor openings

• House, 1820–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey thatched house with attic storey, c.1850. Timber projecting entrance porch, c.1980. Flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear, c.1970.ROOF: Double pitched thatched roof with overhanging thatch eaves, concrete coping to gables; small rendered chimney stack. WALLS: Rough cast render; nap rendered to rear. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered reveals; concrete cills to ground floor; granite cills to attic; timber casement windows; projecting timber and glazed porch.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Rush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Rush · An Ros

Area

4,734,773 m² (473.48 ha, 1,169.99 acres)

Civil parish

Lusk, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Rush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rush electoral division: 11,116 people in 3,551 households; 74% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballustree, Drumanagh, Haystown, Horestown, Rathartan, Rush Demesne, Whitestown

Placenames

Rush 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.