Rushbrook
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmaclasser, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Faiche an Teampaill
- Area
- 42.8 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,267 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushbrook, from 262 m² to 62,886 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Rushbrook 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
8 Jun 2026N/a
construct private dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary effluent treatment unit and all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26123
8 Dec 2025Conditional
construct an extension to existing dwelling house together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25493
18 Sept 2023Conditional
full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works at (Faiche An Teampaill) Rushbrook, Clogher, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360377
12 Jun 2023Conditional
Retention of Domestic Garage
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360211
30 Aug 2018N/a
SECTION 5: CONSTRUCT A 2 BAY OPEN SLATTED SHED AND TANK AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18660
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 Rushbrook.
Recorded monuments
- MA077-022001 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA077-022002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA077-022003 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rushbrook.
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rushbrook.
- 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 Rushbrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Rushbrook · Faiche an Teampaill
- Area
- 428,334 m² (42.83 ha, 105.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaclasser, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clogher electoral division: 948 people in 330 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Ballynacarriga, Carrowtootagh, Clogher, Clooncanavan, Tawnyemon
- Placenames
- Rushbrook 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.