Cushina

186 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cushina, from 36 m² to 1,015,651 m² (101.57 ha, 250.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cushina 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.

• 26 Jan 2026Refused

  a STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING, ENTRANCE, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660036

• 22 Dec 2025N/a

  ‘STOREY AND A HALF’ DWELLING, ENTRANCE, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560682

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING TO ACCOMMODATE A GRANNY FLAT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 236

• 7 Dec 2022Conditional

  AN ATTIC CONVERSION WITH DORMER WINDOWS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 22626

• 22 Jun 2022Conditional

  THE DEPOSITION OF SOIL AND STONE OVER AN AREA OF C. 5.88HA FOR THE PURPOSES OF LAND IMPROVEMENT WITH AN AGRICULTURAL END USE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22309

• 27 May 2022N/a

  THE DEPOSITION OF SOIL AND STONE OVER AN AREA OF C. 5.88HA FOR THE PURPOSES OF LAND IMPROVEMENT WITH AN AGRICULTURAL END USE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22269

• 16 May 2022N/a

  DEPOSITION OF SOIL AND STONE OVER AN AREA OF C. 5.88HA FOR THE PURPOSES OF LAND IMPROVEMENT WITH AN AGRICULTURAL END USE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22247

• 7 Dec 2021Conditional

  3 NO. "CONNEX" CONTAINER UNITS TO REPLACE FOOT BRIDGES, 9 NO. PLINTHS FOR ARTWORK / SCULPTURES, 1 NEW STEEL CONTAINER STORAGE UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21755

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21709

• 4 Oct 2021N/a

  3 NO. "CONNEX" CONTAINER UNITS TO REPLACE FOOT BRIDGES, 9 NO. PLINTHS FOR ARTWORK / SCULPTURES, 1 NEW STEEL CONTAINER STORAGE UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21611

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  ROAD / JUNCTION ACCOMMODATION WORKS TO FACILITATE TURBINE DELIVERIES ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT IN CO. KILDARE. A CONCURRENT PLANNING APPLICATION IS BEING LODGED TO KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL IN RELATION TO A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF 5 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169M AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE; ERECTION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEOROLOGICAL MAST OF UP TO 100M IN HEIGHT; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ANCILLARY WORKS AND EQUIPMENT. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2138

• 23 Aug 2017Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELLING AND NEW ROOFLIGHTS TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17309

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 Cushina.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cushina.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Cushina.

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.

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

Name

Cushina · Cois Eidhní

Area

7,250,574 m² (725.06 ha, 1,791.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykean, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Ballyshear, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyshear electoral division: 407 people in 134 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim (Co. Kildare), Clonsast Lower, Clonsast Upper, Cushina, Derryounce, Derryvilla, Enaghan, Moanvane, Raheenakeeran

Placenames

Cushina 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.