# Rushveala, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Rois Bhéala.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 613,543 m² (61.35 ha, 151.61 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 16 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md
- Barony: Moycullen
- Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20893
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63771
- Centre: latitude 53.419224, longitude -9.301394 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushveala, from 10 m² to 185,803 m² (18.58 ha, 45.91 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1995221: 185,803 m² (18.58 ha, 45.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995221.md
- Parcel 1955883: 44,419 m² (4.44 ha, 10.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955883.md
- Parcel 1955884: 32,490 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955884.md
- Parcel 1995215: 26,714 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995215.md
- Parcel 1995213: 22,355 m² (2.24 ha, 5.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995213.md
- Parcel 1995197: 19,410 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995197.md
- Parcel 1955879: 17,470 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955879.md
- Parcel 1995216: 13,975 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995216.md
- Parcel 1955880: 13,804 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955880.md
- Parcel 1995219: 12,347 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995219.md
- Parcel 1995217: 12,180 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995217.md
- Parcel 1955892: 11,393 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955892.md
- Parcel 2069434: 8,649 m² (0.86 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069434.md
- Parcel 1995220: 8,576 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995220.md
- Parcel 1995212: 7,143 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995212.md
- Parcel 4456499: 6,944 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456499.md
- Parcel 1995768: 6,195 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995768.md
- Parcel 1995202: 5,295 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995202.md
- Parcel 1995223: 5,269 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995223.md
- Parcel 1955874: 4,799 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955874.md
- Parcel 1995218: 4,496 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995218.md
- Parcel 4842389: 4,420 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4842389.md
- Parcel 6057429: 4,406 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6057429.md
- Parcel 1955895: 4,401 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955895.md
- Parcel 1955890: 4,303 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955890.md
- Parcel 4682525: 4,017 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4682525.md
- Parcel 1955872: 3,857 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955872.md
- Parcel 1955873: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955873.md
- Parcel 2022185: 3,721 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022185.md
- Parcel 1995211: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995211.md
- Parcel 1955894: 3,526 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955894.md
- Parcel 5079552: 3,480 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5079552.md
- Parcel 5521594: 3,309 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5521594.md
- Parcel 1955351: 3,297 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955351.md
- Parcel 1955876: 3,078 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955876.md
- Parcel 1955889: 3,033 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955889.md
- Parcel 1955886: 3,014 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955886.md
- Parcel 5413035: 2,994 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5413035.md
- Parcel 1955888: 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955888.md
- Parcel 1995208: 2,719 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995208.md
- Parcel 1995205: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995205.md
- Parcel 1995209: 2,564 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995209.md
- Parcel 1955885: 2,561 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955885.md
- Parcel 1995204: 2,513 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995204.md
- Parcel 1955868: 2,381 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955868.md
- Parcel 5236957: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5236957.md
- Parcel 4841768: 2,170 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4841768.md
- Parcel 1995222: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995222.md
- Parcel 1955878: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955878.md
- Parcel 1995210: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995210.md
- Parcel 5076032: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5076032.md
- Parcel 1995206: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995206.md
- Parcel 1995207: 2,019 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995207.md
- Parcel 1955891: 1,864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955891.md
- Parcel 4681957: 1,857 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4681957.md
- Parcel 1995203: 1,663 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995203.md
- Parcel 5610816: 1,588 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5610816.md
- Parcel 1995195: 1,482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995195.md
- Parcel 1995200: 1,442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995200.md
- Parcel 5281720: 1,439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5281720.md
- Parcel 1955882: 1,437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955882.md
- Parcel 1955871: 1,346 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955871.md
- Parcel 1955881: 1,309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955881.md
- Parcel 2112849: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112849.md
- Parcel 1955870: 1,216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955870.md
- Parcel 1995201: 1,215 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995201.md
- Parcel 5076030: 1,214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5076030.md
- Parcel 1995109: 1,075 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995109.md
- Parcel 5205766: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5205766.md
- Parcel 1955893: 1,030 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955893.md
- Parcel 1995199: 966 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995199.md
- Parcel 1955865: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955865.md
- Parcel 2487058: 867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487058.md
- Parcel 1995196: 737 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995196.md
- Parcel 1995198: 692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995198.md
- Parcel 1955973: 655 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955973.md
- Parcel 1995108: 578 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995108.md
- Parcel 1955875: 569 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955875.md
- Parcel 1955887: 273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955887.md
- Parcel 1955877: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955877.md
- Parcel 1955896: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955896.md
- Parcel 1955866: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955866.md
- Parcel 1955869: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955869.md
- Parcel 1955867: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955867.md
- Parcel 5294484: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5294484.md
- Parcel 1995214: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995214.md
- Parcel 5076034: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5076034.md
- Parcel 5521593: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5521593.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

16 applications, newest first.

- 1 Oct 2026, Galway County Council 26258: N/a. Retention. of an existing dwelling house and garage, the retention of a rear storage/utility building. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/26258/0
- 9 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661163: N/a. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661163/0
- 13 Mar 2026, Galway County Council 2660393: N/a. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660393/0
- 14 Mar 2025, Galway County Council 2560266: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560266/0
- 15 Oct 2024, Galway County Council 24303: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/24303/0
- 1 Aug 2024, Galway County Council 24228: Conditional. Permission. to construct an agricultural shed, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 135 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/24228/0
- 23 Nov 2022, Galway County Council 2261167: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2261167/0
- 5 Jul 2022, Galway County Council 2260684: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260684/0
- 10 Dec 2021, Galway County Council 212343: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212343/0
- 29 Nov 2021, Galway County Council 212241: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212241/0
- 7 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201855: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201855/0
- 27 Apr 2020, Galway County Council 20517: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20517/0
- 21 Apr 2020, Galway County Council 20495: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20495/0
- 20 Sept 2018, Galway County Council 181329: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works; dwelling 287sqm, Garage 60sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181329/0
- 4 May 2018, Galway County Council 18577: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18577/0
- 9 Nov 2017, Galway County Council 171614: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171614/0

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## 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 Rushveala.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA054-067: Chapel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA054-067----. 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

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)

- House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 30405403, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30405403. 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.

## 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 Rushveala, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_332, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_332.zip (ZIP).
- 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/galway/rushveala.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/rushveala.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/rushveala.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rushveala with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Billymore or Carrowntober: https://everytownland.com/galway/billymore-or-carrowntober.md
- Glebe: https://everytownland.com/galway/glebe-62153.md
- Gortrevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortrevagh.md
- Lemonfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/lemonfield.md
- Maghera More: https://everytownland.com/galway/maghera-more.md
- Portacarron: https://everytownland.com/galway/portacarron.md
- Portacarron Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/portacarron-beg.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.

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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.

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