# Rush Hall, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Baile Mhaí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,045,930 m² (304.59 ha, 752.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,317 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Castletown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27836 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101015 - Centre: latitude 52.958221, longitude -7.535812 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rush Hall, from 591 m² to 650,155 m² (65.02 ha, 160.66 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 230323: 650,155 m² (65.02 ha, 160.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230323.md - Parcel 250923: 375,634 m² (37.56 ha, 92.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250923.md - Parcel 231196: 352,106 m² (35.21 ha, 87.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231196.md - Parcel 246475: 247,378 m² (24.74 ha, 61.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246475.md - Parcel 237272: 222,648 m² (22.26 ha, 55.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237272.md - Parcel 229224: 167,855 m² (16.79 ha, 41.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229224.md - Parcel 252268: 106,081 m² (10.61 ha, 26.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252268.md - Parcel 243457: 93,310 m² (9.33 ha, 23.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243457.md - Parcel 255404: 91,918 m² (9.19 ha, 22.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255404.md - Parcel 258369: 70,090 m² (7.01 ha, 17.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258369.md - Parcel 235689: 63,437 m² (6.34 ha, 15.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235689.md - Parcel 248963: 61,178 m² (6.12 ha, 15.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248963.md - Parcel 265955: 55,168 m² (5.52 ha, 13.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265955.md - Parcel 247147: 50,893 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247147.md - Parcel 246459: 46,527 m² (4.65 ha, 11.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246459.md - Parcel 252978: 44,212 m² (4.42 ha, 10.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252978.md - Parcel 250086: 36,820 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250086.md - Parcel 268406: 36,621 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268406.md - Parcel 257180: 35,766 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257180.md - Parcel 248426: 24,883 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248426.md - Parcel 235567: 24,783 m² (2.48 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235567.md - Parcel 266176: 22,312 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266176.md - Parcel 237891: 22,210 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237891.md - Parcel 228464: 17,586 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228464.md - Parcel 250627: 11,189 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250627.md - Parcel 231529: 11,135 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231529.md - Parcel 247955: 9,499 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247955.md - Parcel 237646: 9,108 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237646.md - Parcel 239944: 8,080 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239944.md - Parcel 254219: 7,734 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254219.md - Parcel 241248: 5,408 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241248.md - Parcel 231940: 5,178 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231940.md - Parcel 4390741: 4,621 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4390741.md - Parcel 235858: 4,542 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235858.md - Parcel 4291432: 4,477 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291432.md - Parcel 257814: 4,293 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257814.md - Parcel 4588162: 4,168 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4588162.md - Parcel 4726036: 3,769 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4726036.md - Parcel 3419833: 3,571 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3419833.md - Parcel 226438: 3,354 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226438.md - Parcel 236686: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236686.md - Parcel 264626: 2,617 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264626.md - Parcel 225256: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225256.md - Parcel 4444243: 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4444243.md - Parcel 235997: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/235997.md - Parcel 254565: 1,731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/254565.md - Parcel 258692: 1,511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/258692.md - Parcel 255560: 1,039 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/255560.md - Parcel 4442805: 967 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4442805.md - Parcel 258533: 872 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/258533.md - Parcel 253983: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/253983.md - Parcel 260514: 591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/260514.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rush Hall 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 3 Sept 2025, Laois County Council 2560554: Conditional. Permission. relocate an existing haybarn and construct a new silage pit along with all other associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560554/0 - 22 Aug 2025, Laois County Council 2560515: N/a. Permission. relocate an existing haybarn and the construction of a new silage pit along with all other associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560515/0 - 4 Oct 2021, Laois County Council 21678: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct two storey extension to dwelling to create new dwelling in extension, and create 'granny flat' in existing dwelling; and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21678/0 - 13 Apr 2021, Laois County Council 21219: N/a. Permission. construct new agricultural shed and retain existing roadside entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21219/0 - 13 Feb 2019, Laois County Council 1993: Conditional. Permission. construct a new slatted cubicle house, slatted loose house, calving shed & all associated works & services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1993/0 - 12 Feb 2019, Laois County Council 1989: N/a. Permission. construct a new slatted cubicle shed, calving shed & all associated concrete work & drainage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1989/0 - 26 Jul 2017, Laois County Council 17400: Conditional. Retention. retain the existing 30m high steel lattice tower carrying radio antennae for mobile telephony, plaisade permiter fencing, equipment container and access track as previously granted under planning ref. no. 1226. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17400/0 - 18 Jul 2017, Laois County Council 17384: N/a. Retention. retain the existing 30m high steel lattice tower carrying radio for mobile telephony, palisade perimeter fencing, equipment container and access track as previously granted under planning ref. no. 1226. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17384/0 - 6 Jul 2017, Laois County Council 17357: N/a. Retention. retain the existing 30m high steel lattice tower carrying radio antennae for mobile telephony plaisade permiter fencing, equipment container and access track as previously granted under planning ref. no. 1226. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17357/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Knockacoller Bog SAC, site code 002333, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002333 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockacoller Bog, site code 000419 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA016-025002: Inn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA016-025002-. Marked as 'Rush Hall Inn' on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 183) as having, 'projecting chimneys; it had, too, the lozenge-shaped chimney stacks, but only in single rows, till 1896. It is traditionally said to have been erected to accommodate the men employed in building [Rush Hall] Court [LA016-026----]. As far as anyone remembers it was always, as its name implies, a public Inn, till about 1860'. This detached two-storey five-bay house dates to the seventeenth century with later modifications. It has heavy projecting chimney stacks at both gable ends. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 4 March 2019 - LA016-026001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA016-026001-. The Down Survey Maps of 1657 records that there were ‘at Bally[moy]more, Garrankiel and Clartane, two ruined castles with several houses and cabbins’ (Carrigan vol. 2, 182). The townland of Rush Hall was in medieval times known as Ballymoy or Ballyvoy/Ballymoymore, from the Gaelic townland of Baile-Maige Móir which means the townland of the large plain (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 181). The McCostigins were the Gaelic family who prior to the seventeenth century were the owners of the lands of Ballymoy (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 181). In 1653 the forfeited lands of Augustine Costigin consisting of Ballymoye, Garrankiel, Clartane, Shangarry, Knockbrack, Gurtnapishy [Peafield], Shangowny, Cargin, Clonefadda and part of Gurtinamalagh and Clondaglasse were confiscated by the Cromwellian government and granted to Major Thomas Davis who then sold the lands to Sir Charles Coote, afterwards first Earl of Mountrath (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 181). No medieval castle or castles are marked on any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps. The remains of the E wall, NE angle and N wall of a tower house (dims. 6.1m E-W x c. 9.4m N-S) can be seen at Rush Hall Court (LA016-026----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 October 2011 - LA016-026002: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA016-026002-. Rush Hall appears to have been the residence of the Ruish family in the first quarter of the seventeenth century and later through marriage became the residence of the Coote family (Brewer 1826, vol. 2, 90). In the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Sir Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath, married Mary Ruish, the second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Francis Ruish, of Ruish Hall, Co. Laois and of Castle Jordan, Co. Meath, who was M.P. for the King’s Co. [Offaly] and of the privy council in the reign of King James I (Burke 1866, 134; Lodge 1789 vol. 2, 77). Sir Francis Ruish of Castlejordan and Ruish Hall died in 1623 and was succeeded by his daughter Mary who around this time married Sir Charles Coote (Berwick 1819, 45). According to other sources the lands of Rush Hall then known as Ballymoy belonged to the Costigan family who lost these lands after the Irish Confederate Wars of 1641-1652 to Major Thomas Davis. The 1659 Census of Ireland lists Thomas Davis as the chief tenant or landowner of the townland of 'Ballemoy' [Rush Hall] (Pender 2002, 496). This person appears to have been Major Thomas Davis a soldier in the Cromwellian army who had received these lands which formerly belonged to the Costigans (Prendergast 1887, 72). Shortly after this date, possibly in 1660, Major Thomas Davis sold these lands to Sir Charles Coote, then Earl of Mountrath (Prendergast 1887, 72). In 1660, Sir Charles Coote of Ruish-Hall was appointed Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and one of the Lord Justices, he died a year later in 1661. By 1789, Ruish Hall was the only residence of the Coote family (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 182-183). Rush Hall was abandoned shortly after 1789 and became a ruin, the remains of which are still visible today (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 183). Carrigan suggested that this house was built c.1660 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 183), it is possible that the house was built in the first quarter of the seventeenth century by Sir Francis Ruishe and possibly modified in 1660 by Sir Charles Coote. In 1837, Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Ireland suggested that the fortified house was built around 1641 when Sir Charles Coote built Castle Cuffe (LA002-008----) in Co. Laois (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 477). The townland of Rush Hall was known in medieval times as Ballymoy. According to the Down Survey (1655-6) maps there were 'at Bally [moy]more [Rushall], Garrankiel and Clartane, two ruined castles with several houses and cabbins' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 182). Rush Hall Court may have been built on the site of one of these 'two castles' (LA016-026001-) (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 183). Alternatively the house at Ruish Hall may have been one of the castles described in the Down Survey. The diamond-set chimney stacks, large floor to ceiling windows, the double-pile floor plan are all features which indicate that this house dates from the middle to the second half of the seventeenth century. The diamond set-chimney stacks are similar to the stacks found on Derryhivenny Castle (GA118-035----), Co. Galway which dates from c. 1643 and at Grange Castle (KD002-007----), Co. Kildare. There is no evidence of any fortification in the upstanding remains of Rush Hall Court which may be better classified as a seventeenth century house defended by a large bawn with pentagonal shaped flanking towers. The evidence of a single fragment of cut and dressed stone along with the historical references suggests that this house may have replaced or incorporated fragments of an earlier seventeenth century house built by the Ruish family. Carrigan described the building in 1905 as, 'a large double house built east and west. The front wall, facing south, is razed to the ground; it was 60 ft. [18.2m] long; the remaining side-wall is 34 ft. [10.3m] high. The chimneys are massive, project from the gables, and are surmounted by double rows of lozenge-shaped chimney stacks. The building has not a single piece of cut stone, and appears to have been put together hurriedly. There was a large courtyard attached, the walls of which are still standing' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 183). The seventeenth century house is situated on a commanding height immediately N of the main road from Borris-in-Ossory to Mountrath offering excellent views from E through S to W. Rush Hall Inn (LA016-025002-) is located 250m to the SW and the village of Castletown is 3.7km to the NE. Today, all that remains are the poorly preserved ivy-covered ruins of a seventeenth century three storey high double pile house with fortified bawn (LA016-026003-) defended by polygonal shaped corner towers. The poorly preserved remains along with the ivy-covered walls makes it difficult to identify the original floor plan of this house which appears to have been a large double-pile house of rectangular plan. The present ruins of Rush Hall Court comprises the remains of a plain three-storey seventeenth century double-pile limestone house, protected on its NE side by an impressive bawn (LA016-026003-) enclosing a sizeable area. The owner of the house explained that there was formerly an enclosed and cobbled courtyard with outbuildings adjoining the house on its NW side which was unfortunately destroyed in 1977. This area is now concreted and contains several modern farm buildings. A possible well appears to be indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS six-inch map in the centre of this bawn area to the NW of the house. The poorly preserved ivy-covered three storey house possibly with dormer attic consists of a large rectangular block with its long axis running SW-NE measuring internally 28.7m SW-NE x 7.2m N-S, the dividing spine wall of this double-pile building survives intact while the external N and S side walls of the house no longer survives and the NE and SW gables (T 0.95m) are partially upstanding. The poor condition of the upstanding masonry of this ivy-covered building gives the house the appearance of possessing an L-shaped plan. The walls of the house are built with intermittently coursed limestone rubble with larger stones in use as quoins particularly at the SW corner. There is no evidence of any cut stone in the SW gable of the house. The dividing or spine wall (T 0.8m) of the main body of the house survives intact, along with the NE and SW gables which are covered in ivy making detailed examination impossible. Only a short fragment of the S wall return survives of the mainly destroyed S wall of the house on the SE (L 0.5m) and SW (L 1.5m) angles. The SW gable of the house stands today three storeys high and appears to have supported two A-shaped roofs which were supported on the dividing spine wall of the house. A tall rectangular chimney crowned with two rows of triple diamond-shaped chimney stacks rise from the top of the SW gable where it intersects with the dividing spine wall of the house. An unusual feature visible in the external face of the SW gable at second floor level is the partial infill of an embrasure which supports the impressive chimney stacks. This infill is set back from the external face of the gable which creates a shallow external recessed panel in the SW gable. To the S of this recessed feature are the remains of the N splay of a similar large opening which could have been an opening for a window now destroyed. This recessed panel with rubble infill supporting the tall chimney stacks may be evidence that the chimney stacks are a secondary feature that were added to the house in the second half of the seventeenth century. Another possibility is that this is a construction feature of how the chimney stacks were built and therefore contemporaneous with the construction of the house. There is evidence of a large broken out window embrasure at first floor level in the SW gable on the N side of the spine wall which provided light for a chamber on the N side of the spine wall. Directly above this at second floor level there are the possible remains of the S splay of a de - LA016-026003: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA016-026003-. In undulating countryside with views to S and W. According to Carrigan, Rushall Court (LA016-026----) was founded about 1660, by Sir Charles Coote was probably built on the site of one of 'two castles' (LA016-026001-) mentioned in the Down Survey of 1657 (Carrigan 1905, 183). Rush Hall Court was abandoned shortly after 1789 and became a ruin, the remains of which can be seen today (Carrigan 1905, 183). Shortly after its abandonment a new house marked on the OS 6-inch maps as Rush Hall House was built c. 10m to the S of the seventeenth century house. There appears to have been more than one bawn area attached to Rush Hall Court of which only the E bawn and a portion of the S bawn survives intact. The impressive bawn to the E of the house is defended with pentagonal shaped-flanking towers whose walls are pierced with 10 gun loops in each tower and appears to be one of possibly three seperate areas defended by a bawn wall. The flanking angle towers of the bawn are similar in shape to the flanking towers on the early seventeenth century plantation fort at Monaghan (MO009-060003-) which was built c. 1611. The main bawn area was built onto the E side of the seventeenth century house (LA016-026----), enclosing an area c. 65m square, its walls survive to a height of 3.7m and are composed of large blocks of limestone masonry, intermittently coursed, measuring 0.67m thick. The entrance to the bawn was most likely at the N end of the W wall and adjoining the E end of the N wall of the main body of the house (LA016-026----) where today there is a broken out gap in the wall. Unusually the W wall of the bawn runs beyond the S wall of the bawn for a distance of 14m with the remains of a flanking tower on the SW angle that was entered from the E side which suggests that there was a second bawn area to the S of the present bawn located to the E of Rush Hall Court. Only the SW flanking tower and the W wall of this second bawn area survives. A second broken out gap can be seen located off centre to the W in the S wall which may have been a gateway or doorway into this second bawn area to the S of the main bawn. There are no gaps in the N or E walls of this bawn which are perfectly preserved. The surface of the bawn was formerly cobbled, was later used as an orchard and is now a lawn. Three corner towers which provided flanking fire for the bawn and house survives in varying condition at the SE, NE and SW angles. All three are five-sided in plan measuring 3.85m x 3.5m internally with walls 0.62m thick, constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and stand to a maximum height of 3.2m. Both the NE and SE towers contain 10 gun loops, placed at intervals at ground floor level in all five of their component walls. The gun-loops consists of vertical slits with ca entral hole for the gun which is set into square-headed embrasures. Plain square-headed doorways now missing there surrounds measuring 1m wide provided access from the bawn into the flanking towers. The NE tower retains its cobbled floor and threshold stone. There may have been a NW tower as is suggested by some projecting masonry at the W end of the external face of the N wall of the bawn. It may have been removed to facilitate a narrow farm trackway which runs E-W alongside the external face of the N wall of the bawn. Only the W half of the SW tower survives and contains a gun loop and an angle loop. A second displaced gun loop was incorporated into the N end of the S extension to the W wall of the bawn. According to the local landowner there was a third bawn area located to the N and NW of Rush Hall Court that was defined by a wall which was pulled down in the late 1970s. Today several modern farm buildings occupy the site of this bawn area and there is no surface remains of any bawn wall in this location. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 October 2011 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rush Hall. ## 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 Rush Hall, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rush Hall. - 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/laois/rush-hall.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/rush-hall.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/rush-hall.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Rush Hall, Mountrath: 31 sales, https://everytownland.com/laois/rush-hall-mountrath.md - Rush Hall, Shannon Rd: 14 sales, https://everytownland.com/laois/rush-hall-shannon-road.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghafin: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghafin.md - Butterisland: https://everytownland.com/laois/butterisland.md - Clonfad: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonfad.md - Corrigeen: https://everytownland.com/laois/corrigeen.md - Knockacoller: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockacoller.md - Knockbrack: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockbrack.md - Lowran: https://everytownland.com/laois/lowran.md - Mannin: https://everytownland.com/laois/mannin.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/laois/newtown-100878.md - Peafield: https://everytownland.com/laois/peafield.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/rush-hall - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/rush-hall