Rinclevan

139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinclevan, from 15 m² to 235,679 m² (23.57 ha, 58.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rinclevan 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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF 16 NO. HOUSING UNITS, (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER PRIMARY TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH CONNECTION TO THE MAIN SEWER, (3) INSTALLATION OF AN ATTENUATION TANK AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 16 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661634

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661551

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661218

• 16 Mar 2026Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52036

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660423

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY EXTENSION INCLUDING UPPER TERRACE AREA TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562084

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, ACCESS LANE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561622

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  PITCHED ROOFS AND AMENDED FENESTRATION PATTERN TO PORCH AT FRONT OF HOUSE AND UTILITY ROOM TO REAR OF HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2550017

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION AND PART DEMOLITION OF EXTENSION AND (2) MOBILE HOME WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF EXTENSION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560049

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461356

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AUXILIARY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460626

• 18 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460546

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450066

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) EXISTING GARAGE TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR (2) RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING PROVISION OF NEW DOOR TO THE SIDE ELEVATION, NEW ROOFLIGHTS, ALTERATION OF EXISTING WINDOWS, REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING CHIMNEYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351948

• 17 Aug 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351227

• 26 Jul 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351110

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH A POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250250

• 6 Dec 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FLAT ROOFED EXTENSION & CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE, INCREASE HEIGHT OF EXISTING HOUSE, FORM NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS FROM COUNTY ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152425

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152036

• 29 Sept 2021Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION OF AN EXISTING ATTIC TO A HABITABLE SPACE (2) ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS TO INCLUDE A NEW DORMER WINDOW, A NEW WINDOW TO AN EXISTING GABLE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151937

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051346

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM WITHIN EXISTING HOUSING ESTATE CROCKNAGEEHA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051345

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051278

• 26 Aug 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM WITHIN EXISTING HOUSING ESTATE CROCKNAGEEHA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051172

• 24 Aug 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051154

• 5 Feb 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050121

The 25 most recent of 42 applications.

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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG015-018 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature was named 'Labba' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834) and on the revised 6-inch map of 1847-9. There is now no trace of it. It is described in an OS Name Book (1834) as 'a small collection of stones eight in number' said to have been a temporary residence for a husband and wife, a reference, it appears, to the Diarmuid and Gráinne legend. According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), the structure was removed in 1842. On the basis of local information gleaned on his visit to the area in 1845 he concluded that it was a 'Druidical sepulchre' of the type known to the people as 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' and that it had occupied a space 40 feet (c. 12.2m) by 20 feet (c. 6.1m) inside 'a parapet of earth and stone' and had consisted of 'sundry vaults or graves' built of large stone slabs 2-5 feet (c. 0.6-1.5m) high. A central 'vault' measured 10 feet (c. 3.05m) by 6 feet (c. 1.8m) and was covered by a single great flag. The other graves were of 'minor size', but there is no information about their number or position relative to the so-called central vault. On the destruction of the monument, 'shin, thigh and other human bones of large size' were reportedly found, as well as over three cartloads of sea shells and two 'brass' spears each c. 18 inches (c. 0.45m) long, 'one embracing the handle by a socket and the other by straps'. Many other finds of 'minor order' were lost by local children. The floors of the graves were said to have been paved with large and small stones. Although the monument appears to have been some form of chambered burial site, its nature remains uncertain. OS Name Book, Clondahorky parish (1834), book 4, 52; Fagan 1845-8, book 4, 6; Borlase 1897, 231, Kilmacrenan no. 4; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 260; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 263; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 180; SMR 1987, 15:18; RMP 1995, 15:18. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG015-024 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Diam. 25m-30m. Marked as a single-ringed enclosure on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. What remains is an inverted saucer-shaped platform, 2m in maximum height. It is not possible to say if this mound is artificial or natural or a combination of both. The souterrain, the existence of which is attested locally, is not visible. The site is on low-lying ground close to Rinclevan Strand. An artificially created 'New Lake' comes almost to the base of the mound on the S. There is good grazing available about the site today. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1539 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rinclevan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Rinclevan · Rinn Chliabháin

Area

1,058,339 m² (105.83 ha, 261.52 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Casey Glebe, Dunfanaghy, Figart, Kill, Port

Placenames

Rinclevan 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.