Rinboy

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinboy, from 72 m² to 94,041 m² (9.4 ha, 23.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Rinboy 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.

• 24 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF FIRST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF. NO. 97/802, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE BLOCKWORK DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY TO ACCESS THE HOUSE AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661386

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED WITH PARTIAL USE FOR STORAGE OF LOBSTER POTS AND SALTED BAIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650095

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  MOBILE HOME, NEW ACCESS, HARDSTANDING, ANCILLARY SERVICES, DECKING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650050

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN 8M BY 6M LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561140

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN 8M X 6M GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560457

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251196

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151353

• 22 Aug 2018N/a

  A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING COMMUNAL SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851291

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rinboy.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rinboy, 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

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

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

Name

Rinboy · An Rinn Bhuí

Area

801,816 m² (80.18 ha, 198.13 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhiernan, Tonbane Glebe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Rinboy 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.