Rusheen

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen, from 158 m² to 218,267 m² (21.83 ha, 53.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 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.

• 9 Jul 2026Conditional

  Permission to extend and renovate an existing dwelling house and to install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660338

• 27 Sept 2025Refused

  Permission to extend and renovate an existing dwelling house and to install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560463

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  for planning permission to erect a new five bay double slatted shed to include under ground storage tank. The shed to contain passage area, slatted area and creep area yard and crush and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19337

• 13 Jun 2019N/a

  to erect a new five bay double slatted shed to include underground storage tank. The shed to contain passage area, slatted area and creep area and conc aprons at side and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19312

• 1 Aug 2018Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a three bay slatted shed to contain one no. cattle crush, a feed passage and straw bedded lying areas, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18386

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.

Recorded monuments

• RO006-145 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the E-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Circular grass and stone-covered area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-1m) which has been modified by quarrying and which may have been surrounded by a drystone wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-149 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.3m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.35-6.7m; int. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W; ext. H 1.55-1.8m) SW-N-SE and a scarp (H 2.1m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 7.7-8m; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.6m at S to 1.15m at W) and outer bank (Wth 3.2-3.7m; H 0.7-1m) SE-N. There is an entrance (Wth 6m), which has probably been widened, at ENE, and a quarry in the W part of the interior. The road (RO006-103012-) from this rath towards Ardcarne church (RO006-103002-) runs just to the N of the monument. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-150 Mass-rock
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a low rise in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular overgrown, flat-topped cairn (dims 4.2m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.1m at S to 0.38m at N) with an uninscribed flat slab (dims 1.17m E-W; 0.73m N-S; T 0.15m) set horizontally at its N edge. It is surrounded by trees. (Beirne 2000, 181) See the attached image taken from the N Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-152 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a low-lying position, just N of a SW-NE stream. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1m) NW-E, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2-1m) SW-NW and truncated by the stream at SE. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-013 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular wooded feature (diam. c. 25m), and situated on a low rise in an undulating landscape. Circular platform (diam. 24m; H 0.3-0.5m) planted with mature deciduous and young coniferous trees defined by a fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.5m), and an outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.5m) ENE-E which is incorporated into a field bank SE-W-NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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, about 1 in 5 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 Rusheen.

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

Name

Rusheen

Area

1,524,581 m² (152.46 ha, 376.73 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Rockingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

339 people lived in 134 households in the Rockingham electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcarn, Ardeash, Carrowmore, Carrownagashel, Cloonaghbaun, Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Reycroftspark, Tullyboy

Placenames

Rusheen 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.