Rusheen West

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen West, from 118 m² to 82,285 m² (8.23 ha, 20.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rusheen West 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.

• 4 Aug 2026Refused

  for the demolition of existing part of dwelling and the construction of a new two-storey extension to the side of existing house with alterations to existing elevations plus associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 142sqm. Gross floor space of works to be retained 85sqm.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 26193

• 15 May 2024Conditional

  for a serviced dwelling and garage/shed with all associated services previously granted under 9700. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 94 sqm (house) & 17 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460557

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of existing part of dwelling and the construction of a new two-storey extension to the side of existing house with alterations to existing elevations plus associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 142sqm. Gross floor space of works to be retained 85sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21961

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  for extension to the rear of private dwelling house (conservatory type structure) also retention for attic conversion to walk in storage area with roof lights. Also retention of internal layout changes to the house. The previous planning ref # 97972. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Conservatory: 30 sqm, Attic: 50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21549

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 Rusheen West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rusheen West.

Architectural heritage

• Poliska House, building misc, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey former dispensary, built c.1860, having four-bay first floor and five-bay ground floor, single-bay return to south end with flat-roofed canted former window, and having single-storey lean-to additions to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof, pitched to north end, and single-pitch slate roofs to additions, with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front and south elevations, smooth rendered elsewhere. Square-headed window openings throughout with limestone sills having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and replacement uPVC windows elsewhere including canted-bay. Square-headed door opening to front having raised reveals, replacement timber panelled door and two-pane overlight, square-headed replacement uPVC door to rear, square-headed replacement uPVC door to canted bay. Three-block barn to south-west having pitched slate and single-pitch corrugated-steel roofs. Rubble stone enclosing wall with limestone gate piers and recent sheet-metal gates.

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 Rusheen West, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Rusheen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rusheen West · An Roisín Thiar

Area

298,018 m² (29.8 ha, 73.64 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Cloonbur, Dooroy, Fahy, Kilbeg Lower, Rusheen East

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Rusheen West 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.