Rushaun

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushaun, from 266 m² to 170,750 m² (17.07 ha, 42.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
  Not Applicable, Clare · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Apr 2026Unconditional

  to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268004

• 10 Apr 2026N/a

  to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268003

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  (P21/492), to construct a dwelling house, and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associted site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24240

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  (P21/493), to construct a dwelling house, and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24241

• 10 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22220

• 20 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21492

• 20 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21493

• 20 May 2021Conditional

  to change the site boundaries of an existing dwelling as granted under Planning Permission No. P90-740, with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21494

• 20 Nov 2019Conditional

  for the following works (A) Change use of existing garage attached to dwelling, to living accommodation, (B) Construct extension to rear and side of the proposed converted garage space and (C) for the use the proposed converted garage space and extended area as a granny flat, all with associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19901

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 Rushaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL033-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the summit of a hill within a coniferous forest. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subcircular scrub-covered area (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m) NW-NE and by a scarp (H 1.8-2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April 2016

• CL033-004 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying position with higher ground all around. Marked only on the 1921 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 61.2m N-S; 59.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) at the base of the rise (H c. 1.5m) and a fosse or silted drain (Wth 1-2.5m; D 0.1-0.4m), which widens into a pond (dims. c. 10m) at E. There is no visible entrance, and it may be a drainage feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rushaun, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Rushaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Rushaun · An Roiseán

Area

1,051,543 m² (105.15 ha, 259.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamona, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Kilnamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

959 people lived in 318 households in the Kilnamona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Cloongowna, Garrynagry, Islandgar, Knockatemple, Leckaun

Placenames

Rushaun 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.