Rushwee

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rushwee, from 415 m² to 247,978 m² (24.8 ha, 61.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 9 Jun 2022Conditional

  changes to that approved under application 21/1953, including the deconstruction and reconstruction of the existing dwelling with amended floor and ridge heights. All other aspects of the development to remain as previously approved

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22758

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  a new two-storey extension to the southwest of the existing dwelling and wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211953

• 2 Sept 2020Refused

  the conversion of the existing dwelling on site to become an external store area, the construction of a new single storey dwelling, associated wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB201195

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 Rushwee.

Recorded monuments

• ME019-118 Font (present location)
  Description

  The subcircular sandstone font (diam. 0.63-0.7m; max. surviving H 0.46m) with a circular basin (int. diam. 0.5m; max. surviving D 0.16m) and damaged side-walls that was in the graveyard (ME019-006001-) at Gernonstown (Cogan 1862-70, 2 303; Roe 1968, 119) is now outside the Roman Catholic church at Rushwee, c. 1km S of its original location. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 December, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rushwee, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Rushwee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Rushwee

Area

425,533 m² (42.55 ha, 105.15 acres)

Civil parish

Slane, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Upper

Electoral division

Slane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,936 people lived in 687 households in the Slane electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abelstown, Carrickdexter, Gernonstown, Pighill, Rushwee

Placenames

Rushwee 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.