Cush

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cush, from 93 m² to 98,817 m² (9.88 ha, 24.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Cush 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.

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  modifications to the permission granted under Reg. Ref. 17/492 for installation of a Renewable Gas Injection Unit. Specifically, the modification involves the minor relocation of the permitted gas injection unit approximately 25 metres further west, along with relocation of the gas flare further west and erection of a palisade security fence around the unit. The permitted propane tank will not be affected. The modified development will reduce the length of the connecting pipe from the gas grid entry unit to the gas grid which will be provided separately by Gas Networks Ireland at the former Cush Inn

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181019

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  installation of Renewable Gas Injection facility with a biomethane pressure reduction station, coupling unit, gas grid entry unit, gas flare (as safety measure which would only ever be used in exceptional circumstances), propane storage tanks, with associated fencing, new vehicular entrance to facilitate HGV access and ancillary works. Outbuildings associated with The Cush Inn (east side) will be demolished in order to facilitate HGV vehicular access to the injection unit. The Cush Inn will remain in situ. The connecting pipe from the gas grid entry unit to the gas grid will be provided separately by Gas Networks Ireland. Revised by Significant Further Information which involve the demolition of the Cush Inn and new entrance onto the R417

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17492

• 19 Jan 2017Refused

  new steel fabrication workshop for the manufacture and fabrication of steel farm buildings, gates and all associated works also an office block to include toilets, changing rooms and canteen including new car parking, new enlarged entrance gate, new effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1737

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 Cush.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cush.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Cush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Cush

Area

655,917 m² (65.59 ha, 162.08 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrackan, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Ballybrackan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybrackan electoral division: 660 people in 223 households; 86% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashgrove, Cloney, Coolagh, Derryoughter East, Derryoughter West, Pullagh, Rickardstown Lower

Placenames

Cush 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.