Bushypark
Townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Páirc na Sceach
- Area
- 112.2 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,187 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bushypark, from 281 m² to 193,289 m² (19.33 ha, 47.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bushypark 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Aug 2024Conditional
for an extension to an existing stable block comprising of 3 no. stables & a tack room, a new detached stable block comprising of 2 no. stables, a detached Equine shed, an Equine walker, change of use of detached domestic garage to home office & store, Foul water to existing onsite effluent treatment system, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a new effluent treatment system & percolation area is to replace the existing septic tank
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460857
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bushypark.
Recorded monuments
- KD031-029 Moated site
Description
In level pasture. A rectangular area (60m N-S; 40m E-W) is defined by traces of a fosse visible at the N, E, and SE; best visible at the centre of the S side. Also visible on a 2010 OSi Orthophoto. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 October 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bushypark.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2543 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bushypark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Bushypark · Páirc na Sceach
- Area
- 1,122,304 m² (112.23 ha, 277.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Kilrush, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilrush electoral division: 698 people in 228 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolyphullagh, Eaglehill, Fearaun, Ironhills, Kilboggan, Kildoon, Mullaghmoyne West
- Placenames
- Bushypark 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.