Mountrush

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountrush, from 16 m² to 144,637 m² (14.46 ha, 35.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Mountrush 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.

• 31 Mar 2026N/a

  Permission for the erection of a temporary pavilion building fixed to an existing concrete slab, incorporating a storage room, a kitchen and servery, changing rooms with WC, an open seating area, external hot tub and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660159

• 16 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission sought for the erection of a temporary lightweight pavilion fixed to an existing concrete slab, including a small enclosed storage room, a kitchenette, an open seating area and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 25182

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for the renovation & alteration of an existing dwelling, a new single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, change of use of existing sheds to residential use, all associated elevational changes to the house and sheds, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system in a revised location and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460283

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for 1.) construction of a new spectator stand and 2.) all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460027

• 24 Jul 2023Refused

  Permission for construction of a glamping site containing 4 separate yurts, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, car-parking, provide toilet block and washing facilities in part of existing shed, modify existing entrance along with any ancillary site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360239

• 26 Jun 2023N/a

  Construction of a glamping site containing 4 separate yurts, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, car-parking, provide toilet block and washing facilities in part of existing shed, modify existing entrance along with any ancillary site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360180

• 13 May 2022Refused

  retention permission for a portal frame shed for agricultural use only. Also extended field entrance along with new access lane to facilitate the parking of a lorry *Further information received 27.2.23*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 22380

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountrush.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountrush.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mountrush, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Mountrush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Mountrush · Muine Rois

Area

733,361 m² (73.34 ha, 181.22 acres)

Civil parish

Clonkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Clonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

711 people lived in 234 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cardistown, Cookstown, Gilbertstown, Glack, Stormanstown, Tattyboys

Placenames

Mountrush 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.