Rusheen More

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen More, from 374 m² to 750,611 m² (75.06 ha, 185.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 More 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.

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  PLANNING PERMISSION TO REFURBISH AN EXISTING STORE FOR USE AS A DWELLINGHOUSE AND INSTALL A PROPRIETARY DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT RUSHEEN MORE, GLENFLESK, KILLARNEY, CO. KERRY.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660784

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, A GARAGE,A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22426

• 17 Oct 2017Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) DECOMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171028

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rusheen More.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Agatha's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1861-2, on a rectangular plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with six-bay single-storey lean-to side aisle (north); single-bay single-stage abbreviated tower (north-west). Renovated, 1974, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs; lean-to slate roof (north), ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables on trefoil-topped gabled beaded kneelers with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards with cast-iron downpipes. Repointed rubble limestone walls on benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone "slated" cushion course on plinth with stepped buttresses to corners having cut-limestone "slated" coping. Cusped lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone Y-mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Hexafoil-detailed pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-limestone Y-mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Hexfaoil-detailed pointed-arch window opening (west) with cut-limestone Y-mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with central aisle between timber pews, pointed-arch arcade (north) on cut-limestone pillars, exposed scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-limestone beaded corbels with timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1974, with replacement mosaic tiled reredos below stained glass "East Window" in glazed ceramic tiled surround. Set back from line of road in relandscaped grounds. NOTE: Designed by James Joseph McCarthy (1817-82) of Great Brunswick Street [Pearse Street], Dublin (The Dublin Builder 1st April 1862, 85). Stained glass (1932) by Richard King (1907-74) reclaimed (1974) from Collis-Sandes House (see 21302907).

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_299 (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 More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rusheen More

Area

2,736,616 m² (273.66 ha, 676.23 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, Drominaharee, Garries, Rusheen Beg, Shronaboy

Placenames

Rusheen More 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.