placenamesKilbush
Coill na Sceiche
Old Kilbush House preserves a substantial example of the thatched domestic buildings once more common around Rush.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Coill na Sceiche · Irish · main form
- Kilbush · English · main form
Place & story
The house on Kilbush Lane
Old Kilbush House is a long, seven-bay dwelling with an attic beneath its thatched roof. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates it approximately to 1850. Its survey records later additions: a flat-roofed rear extension around 1970 and a projecting timber entrance porch around 1980. These changes show an older house being adapted for continued occupation while retaining the low profile and roof material that distinguish it. [2]
Recording the thatching craft
Fingal’s 2022 thatch survey identifies Kilbush House as one of five Rush houses then retaining early thatched roofs. It records wheaten straw, a flush bobbin ridge and bamboo fixings arranged in rows and lattice work. The survey also distinguishes the later porch and kitchen from the main building. Its detailed record preserves evidence of both roofing craft and gradual household adaptation, placing the house within the area’s surviving vernacular architecture. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Civil parish
- Lusk
- Within
- Lusk
- Coordinates
- 53.52389, -6.08746
- Logainm ID
- 1392118 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbush. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Old Kilbush House, Kilbush Lane, record 11324032 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Fingal Thatch Project 2022: Kilbush House, recordFCC-TS-27 · Fingal County Council
- North Beach near Kilbush and Rush, as photographed in 2013 illustration: based on a North Beach, Rush by Eirian Evans. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-05-27. How this page was prepared.