Rushveala

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushveala, from 10 m² to 185,803 m² (18.58 ha, 45.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Rushveala 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.

• 1 Oct 2026N/a

  of an existing dwelling house and garage, the retention of a rear storage/utility building

  Retention · Galway County Council, 26258

• 9 Jul 2026N/a

  for: (1) the extension and renovation of an existing dwelling house, (2) the retention of an extension to an existing dwelling house, (3) the retention of an existing detached single bed annex, (4) the upgrade of an existing septic tank system, along with all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2661163

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  for part construction of an extension to an existing dwelling and a garage. Permission is also sought for the completion of the extension to the existing dwelling and the garage; and for refurbishment works on the dwelling, along with the construction of a new effluent treatment plant and all associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660393

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 165.80 sqm(H), 48.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560266

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 179 sqm (H), 56.2 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24303

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct an agricultural shed, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 135 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24228

• 23 Nov 2022Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house and to replace existing septic tank with a new private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services.Gross floor space of proposed works 66.50sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261167

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 287.3sqm (dwelling house) and 50sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260684

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  for variations to house design, from that previously permitted under planning permission ref. no. 15/81 and the extension of duration ref. no. 20/495 with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 174.9 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212343

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.1 sqm (Ext. to house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212241

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to dwelling house and retention permission is being sought for existing annexe building for use as a home office with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Ext. to House 22.8 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 22.5 sqm

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 201855

• 27 Apr 2020Conditional

  of existing dwelling house and domestic garage on revised site boundaries as well as all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 164.32sqm (House) + 46.71 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20517

• 21 Apr 2020Unconditional

  of existing site works and permission is being sought for dwellinghouse, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services (gross floor space house 191.4sqm; garage 40sqm) Previous Planning Reference 15/81

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 20495

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works; dwelling 287sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181329

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a side extension to the south eastern elevation of the existing factory building and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 167 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18577

• 9 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new warehouse building and associated siteworks, and alterations to site layout and wastewater treatment system previously granted under planning permission 16/890. Gross floor space of proposed works 1061sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171614

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 Rushveala.

Recorded monuments

• GA054-067 Chapel
  Description

  At S end of a now-deserted house cluster called Oldchapel. No visible trace of it survives. Its absence from the 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map suggests that it may have been a 19th-C R.C. chapel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched water reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge and low rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, rear done more recently with mottled effect. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows and painted stone sills and square-headed doorway with replacement timber battened half-door. Square-headed replacement timber door to rear. Area to front of house bounded by low rubble stone wall. Outbuilding to north-east having rubble-stone walls, recent pitched corrugated-iron roof and square-headed doorways with timber battened doors.

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 Rushveala, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_332 (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 Rushveala with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rushveala · Rois Bhéala

Area

613,543 m² (61.35 ha, 151.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billymore or Carrowntober, Glebe, Gortrevagh, Lemonfield, Maghera More, Portacarron, Portacarron Beg

Placenames

Rushveala 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.