Rusheen Beg

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen Beg, from 345 m² to 316,991 m² (31.7 ha, 78.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rusheen Beg 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.

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19763

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISITING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19692

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE075-052 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on the W side of a disused road, now a farm trackway. A Roman Catholic Church consisting of a rectangular nave (ext. dims.: 8.7m E-W; 6.05m N-S; max. int. H 2.8m) with the E end blocked off by an inserted wall; transepts and chancel indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map no longer survive. Random rubble sandstone construction with projecting coping on the N and S walls. Blocked round-headed window ope in the W gable end. Breach (Wth 2.8m) in the N wall allows access to the interior. Traces of plaster are evident on the interior wall. Three small ascending niches in the W end of the S wall may indicate a stairway. Two stone fonts, placed one on top of the other, rest on the ground against the inside of the N wall; the topmost is a D-shaped basin (1.6m x 0.69m), the lower one is a more primitive looking oval-shaped basin (c. 0.72m x 0.6cm). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rusheen Beg.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_292 (ZIP).

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 Rusheen Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rusheen Beg

Area

939,621 m² (93.96 ha, 232.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killaha, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Flesk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Flesk electoral division: 426 people in 157 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraglass, Curreal, Rusheen More, Shronaboy

Placenames

Rusheen Beg 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.