Rusheen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Roisín
- Area
- 108.1 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 2,557 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen, from 55 m² to 111,269 m² (11.13 ha, 27.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Rusheen 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
30 Mar 2026Refused
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system services together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2665
23 Feb 2026N/a
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system services together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2639
16 Jan 2025N/a
retain revisions to the existing dwelling previously granted under permission under P94/113 and retention for existing dry storage shed and associated entrance and ancillary works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2516
17 Dec 2024Refused
Construction of a private dwelling house with adjoining garage and effluent treatment system together with all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460777
22 Jul 2024Refused
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system services together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24292
26 Jun 2024Conditional
extend the garage previously granted under planning permission reference P23/96 together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24246
27 Apr 2023Conditional
Planning Permission for land reclamation and improvement works over an area of 2 acres, following the successful reclamation completed under P12/631. The works will consist of the stripping of top soil, the importation and levelling of subsoil and clean fill and the recovering with top soil together with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360127
24 Feb 2023Conditional
Demolish an existing dwelling house and to construct a replacement dwelling house, garage and proprietary effluent treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2396
11 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22287
10 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21463
14 Dec 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE DOMESTIC GARAGE PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STIE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20977
7 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20627
27 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19938
14 Jan 2019N/a
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1913
30 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17696
17 Jul 2017Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING AN UPGRADE TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17572
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
Recorded monuments
- MA087-002001 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.
- MA087-002002 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.
- MA087-003 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.
- MA087-004 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.
- MA087-005 Windmill
Description
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- MA087-060 Barrow - unclassified
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.
- MA087-078 Standing stone - pair
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
- Mill (wind), 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1838, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1897. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with rough hewn limestone lintels. Set in own grounds.
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 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rusheen.
- 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 Rusheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Rusheen · An Roisín
- Area
- 1,080,902 m² (108.09 ha, 267.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeena, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmeena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowcally, Money, Mucklagh, Rosmoney, Tonaraha West, Westport Demesne
- Placenames
- Rusheen 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.