Rusheen

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rusheen, from 233 m² to 253,510 m² (25.35 ha, 62.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  a proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works, along with retention of the location of the domestic garage.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460239

• 16 Nov 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of retention alterations to elevations on dwelling house previously granted permission under Ref: 061379.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 20389

• 5 Feb 2020Conditional

  development consisting of (a) build a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, 47 square metres, (b) build a proposed garage and (c) demolish existing shed on site, together with all ancillary site work and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2022

• 23 Oct 2019N/a

  Development consisting of the building of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, 47 square metres, together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19435

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of (a) demolish existing single storey detached dwelling house and storage sheds, (b) construct a replacement storey and a half detached dwelling house, (c) install a waste water treatment system with percolation area, (d) decommission existing septic tank on site, (e) carry out all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19178

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

• SL027-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (23m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.7m). There are gaps in the bank at E (Wth 1m) and S (Wth 3m). An external fosse is evident as a shallow depression (Wth c. 2m; D c. 0.3m) SW-NW. The interior is partially covered with overgrowth while the perimeter is densely covered. A field boundary abuts the bank at NW and another lies immediately to E of the rath. 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

• SL027-109 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, on a slight rise, surrounded by ridges of high ground. A raised oval area (23m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m) with a slight internal lip (H 0.4m) along the N arc. The scarp slopes gently down to the outside. Roughly at the centre of the interior is a raised oval area (8m x 6m; H 0.6m). A short linear earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.6m on S side; H 0.3m on N side), on an E-W axis, lies 3m N of the enclosure. 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

• SL027-110001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a rock outcrop, at the S side of a ridge. A circular area (18m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m). The interior is uneven and c. 4m in from the E edge is a natural ridge of rock outcrop which extends N-S for c. 10m. To the E of this ridge the level of the interior is 0.9m lower than elsewhere. There is a souterrain (SL027-110002-) in the NE quadrant. 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

• SL027-110002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL027-110001-), against the inner face of the bank of the rath at NNE. A drystone-built passage (Wth c. 0.8m; D 1.2m) roofed with lintels, extends for 8m on a roughly NW-SE axis. 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

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.

No address of the register names Rusheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rusheen · An Roisín Riabhach

Area

1,218,074 m² (121.81 ha, 300.99 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

462 people lived in 163 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickcoola, Clooskirt, Kinkillew, Rockbrook, 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.