Rusheen

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen, from 514 m² to 270,811 m² (27.08 ha, 66.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• 6 Jul 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) To demolish the existing two storey derelict dwelling house. (2) To demolish the existing two storey stone ruin. (3) Renovate the stone out buildings for agriculture use. (4) To construct a two storey dwelling house with a single storey annex on the western elevation and the installation of a proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filters. (5) Upgrade the existing site access with the provision for road side gullies off the public road L-1303 LP. (6) Carrying out all other associated site and ground works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 21259

• 10 Feb 2017Conditional

  development consisting of: (1) retention of location of existing effluent treatment unit (2) upgrading of existing effluent treatment system by installing a packaged tertiary treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 1745

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

• SL027-087001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on an E-W ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank with the remains of an external fosse. The bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.8m) has an internal facing of large stones. Several narrow gaps or eroded areas were noted in the bank as well as two substantial gaps, one at NE (Wth 2m) and another at SE (Wth 5m). The fosse is evident as a shallow depression (Wth 4m; D c. 0.5m) SSE-SSW. There is a possible souterrain (SL027-087002-) in the W half of the interior. The perimeter of the rath is overgrown with trees and scrub. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-087002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the W half of the interior of a rath (SL027-087001-), close to the bank of the rath. This possible souterrain is evident only as a shallow depression infilled with stones. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-108 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, near the base of a gentle S-facing slope. A circular area (25m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined W-E by a low stony rise (Wth c. 5m) and elsewhere by a scarp (H 1.8) incorporating some rock outcrop at SSE. At N the rise is almost flush with the exterior ground level but has a slight internal slump. The scarp is topped with a low stony internal rim (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.3m) edged in parts with large stones. According to local information, a low stone wall similar in size and construction to a field wall once enclosed the interior. The S portion of the level interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. There is a possible souterrain (SL027-108001-) in the SE quadrant. A low stony rise (L 10m; Wth 1.4m; H 0.3m) extends E into the interior from the bank at W. There is a small water tank on the bank at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-108001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SE quadrant of a rath (SL027-108----). According to local information, a large heap of stones on the bank at SE marks the blocked entrance to a souterrain passage. The drystone-built passage extended to W into the interior for several metres at which point there appeared to be two openings suggesting branching passages to N and S. The entrance was blocked to prevent animals from falling into it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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 low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1181 (ZIP).

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.

• Rusheen, Riverstown6 sales

Name

Rusheen · An Roisín

Area

1,369,413 m² (136.94 ha, 338.39 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcolumb, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcumber, Carrowcashel, Carrownspurraun, Kinkillew, Rosmore, Rusheen

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.