Rushin

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushin, from 35 m² to 322,293 m² (32.23 ha, 79.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C3General Business (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Jul 2023N/a

  construct a new slatted shed incorporating loose house area and associated concrete yard apron and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23220

• 1 Feb 2023Conditional

  erect slatted shed incorporating robotic milking system and milk silo and for retention permission for (1) an existing slated shed and (2) a feed and machinery storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2332

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct new dwelling house and garage, new site entrance and connection to mains sewage and all associated site works ( previous outline permission Ref 19/153)

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20485

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  a prefabricated motor home garage on existing concrete yard

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20370

• 10 Jul 2020N/a

  a prefabricated motor home garage on existing concrete yard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20348

• 17 Apr 2019Conditional

  retain domestic shed

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19219

• 19 Mar 2019Conditional

  construct a new dormer/storey and half style dwelling, domestic garage, new site entrance and connection to mains sewage

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19153

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  Construct a new dwelling house as replacement for existing sub-standard old dwelling; new septic tank with percolation area and change of use from dwelling to agricultural store and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18567

• 11 Sept 2018N/a

  Construct a new dwelling house as replacement for existing sub-standard old dwelling; new septic tank with percolation area and change of use from dwelling to agricultural store and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18556

• 24 May 2018Conditional

  construct a new agricultural shed together with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18319

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rushin.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rushin, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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_2002 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Rushin, Mountrath7 sales

Name

Rushin · An Roisín

Area

3,024,326 m² (302.43 ha, 747.33 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Mountrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,681 people lived in 962 households in the Mountrath electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clash, Clonincurragh, Deerpark, Derryhay, Derrylusk, Mountrath, Paddock, Sconce Lower

Placenames

Rushin 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.