Bushyisland

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bushyisland, from 4,225 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) to 118,709 m² (11.87 ha, 29.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bushyisland 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bushyisland in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435

Recorded monuments

• LI003-007 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular area (diam. c. 20m) within wooded area. Levelled; no visible surface trace evident. Wooded area has been cleared. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bushyisland, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bushyisland.

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.

No address of the register names Bushyisland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Bushyisland · An tOileán Mór

Area

625,543 m² (62.55 ha, 154.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacourty, Castletown, Milltown

Placenames

Bushyisland 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.