# Rinnakill, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Glencolumbkille, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Rann na Cille.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 827,945 m² (82.79 ha, 204.59 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,192 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Glencolumbkille, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/glencolumbkille.md
- Barony: Banagh
- Electoral division: West Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14658
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52276
- Centre: latitude 54.624343, longitude -8.641927 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinnakill, from 21 m² to 445,663 m² (44.57 ha, 110.13 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1372930: 445,663 m² (44.57 ha, 110.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372930.md
- Parcel 1407597: 69,562 m² (6.96 ha, 17.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407597.md
- Parcel 1305165: 20,878 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305165.md
- Parcel 1380423: 19,917 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380423.md
- Parcel 1405430: 19,320 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405430.md
- Parcel 1321261: 17,990 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321261.md
- Parcel 1391966: 17,419 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391966.md
- Parcel 3659345: 17,061 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659345.md
- Parcel 1329624: 14,446 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329624.md
- Parcel 1384494: 13,852 m² (1.39 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384494.md
- Parcel 1526737: 12,725 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526737.md
- Parcel 1366915: 12,332 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366915.md
- Parcel 1309659: 10,324 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309659.md
- Parcel 1374891: 9,221 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374891.md
- Parcel 1347150: 8,493 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347150.md
- Parcel 1343677: 7,872 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343677.md
- Parcel 1333895: 6,453 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333895.md
- Parcel 5176711: 6,150 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5176711.md
- Parcel 1332957: 5,916 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332957.md
- Parcel 1300626: 5,877 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300626.md
- Parcel 1408208: 5,567 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408208.md
- Parcel 1393545: 5,192 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393545.md
- Parcel 3891918: 3,865 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3891918.md
- Parcel 5099143: 3,602 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099143.md
- Parcel 1394925: 3,488 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394925.md
- Parcel 1314669: 2,775 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314669.md
- Parcel 1316373: 2,730 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316373.md
- Parcel 1378464: 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378464.md
- Parcel 1526736: 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526736.md
- Parcel 1320892: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320892.md
- Parcel 4721370: 1,690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721370.md
- Parcel 1365504: 1,539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365504.md
- Parcel 1344706: 1,296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344706.md
- Parcel 1323358: 1,100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323358.md
- Parcel 1341272: 937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341272.md
- Parcel 1402386: 708 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402386.md
- Parcel 1313340: 507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313340.md
- Parcel 1335624: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335624.md
- Parcel 3659346: 403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659346.md
- Parcel 5105520: 388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105520.md
- Parcel 1526738: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526738.md
- Parcel 1526739: 24 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526739.md
- Parcel 1326129: 21 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326129.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rinnakill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 3 Nov 2022, Donegal County Council 2251799: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251799/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve League SAC, site code 000189, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000189
- Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA, site code 004150, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004150
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve League, site code 000189

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG096-018001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-018001-. 'Tobernamanna' a modernised holy well surrounded by a cairn. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'Tobar na mBan Naomh or " The Well of the Holy Women," at Teelin. The turus is still made on the 23rd June, "Bonfire Night" Often if this night is fine the pilgrims sit up all night at the well until daylight. Stations are also made on the 29th June, probably because it is a Church holiday. The "Holy Women" are called locally Ciall, Tuigse, and Naire (Sense, Under standing and Modesty), and are said to have been three sisters (some deny, however, that they were sisters) who were reared at Rann na Cille, beside the well, and who became nuns, and blessed this well. Two of them are buried at Roilig na mBan, " the Graveyard of the Women," also near the well, and the third is buried east of Teelin Bay in Dúinín, and there is a Garraidh na Roilige, or Garden of the Cemetery in James Doherty's (Jimmy Antoine) land in Dúinín. But another tradition says one of the trio is buried in Cladach na gCaorach. Stations used to be made at both Dúinín and Cladach na gCaorach, but not in the present generation. The well at the former place is now dried up by artificial drainage, but the well in the latter place exists still. One old woman says there was but one turus and that the pilgrims used cross over from the Teelin to the Derrylahan side. The station on Bonfire Night suggests that it was originally a pagan sanctuary, christianised by early missionaries. Fishermen sailing out from Teelin Bay to fish in the open sea lower their sails by way of salute on passing Tobar na mBan Naomh, take off their caps, and ask the help and blessing of the holy women. An almost similar custom is observed by fishermen on the North-West coast of County Mayo, who, when passing under a jutting cliff known as the Cailleach Crom, salute it bareheaded three times in occult terms, at the same time striking the water with the flat of their oars. Crom is undoubtedly pagan, and the similarity of these customs strengthens the belief that Tobar na mBan Naomh is a christianised pagan sanctuary. But it has been the scene of Christian devotion now for thirteen centuries, and it is to be hoped our remarks will not lessen the veneration in which it is still held locally' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 148-9). (Ó Muirgheasa Nos. 23, 24, 25) 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 06 January 2012
- DG096-018002: Penitential station, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-018002-. A cairn (DG096-018002-) 7.1m x 6.2m with an altar built in the centre, approached by a passage from the S. There is a primitive stone cross (DG096-018004-) on top of the cairn. Immediately to the NNW is a drystone-walled structure (DG096-018003-) 3.4m x 2.5m, up to .65m in height. 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
- DG096-018003: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-018003-. A cairn (DG096-018002-) 7.1m x 6.2m with an altar built in the centre, approached by a passage from the S. There is a primitive stone cross (DG096-018004-) on top of the cairn. Immediately to the NNW is a drystone-walled structure (DG096-018003-) 3.4m x 2.5m, up to .65m in height. 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
- DG096-018004: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-018004-. At a holy well (DG096-018001-). A cairn (DG096-018002-) 7.1m x 6.2m with an altar built in the centre, approached by a passage from the S. There is a primitive stone cross (DG096-018004-) on top of the cairn. Immediately to the NNW is a drystone-walled structure (DG096-018003-) 3.4m x 2.5m, up to .65m in height. 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 Lacy 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
- DG096-018005: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-018005-. A well known as Tober Na gCoracb also as 'The Well of the Fair Winds'. Occasionally also referred to as Tobar Windy or Tobar Bhindig, but this name is said by some to refer to another well nearby. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'But perhaps a better tradition is that which tells that it was not at Tobar na mBan Naomh (DG096-018001-) the fishermen used to salute but at another little well near it called Tobar na gCorach, "the Well of the Fair Winds". When Teelin boats were storm-stayed at Sligo, Ballina, or Belmullet if this Tobar na gCorach were cleaned out it would bring about favourable winds, but there was a danger that a member of the family that cleaned the well would die' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 149). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 26) 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 03 November 2011
- DG096-019: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-019----. Situated beside the road at Teelin Bay pier are the fragmentary remains of a rectangular church, 7.97m × 4.87m internally. The walls are composed of a double face of very large boulders with pinnings and a core of small stones bonded with red-sand mortar. The interior is littered with collapse and some modern rubbish. The N and S walls, c. 1.2m in maximum height, and W gable c. 0.9m high, are featureless. The E gable, 2.6m at maximum height, has a wide central ragged gap which is probably the site of a window. The gable of a factory shed is built almost flush against it and the wall of another shed hems in the church on the S. A quantity of bones were dug up close to the church in the 1890's, possibly indicating a graveyard (DG096-019001-) no longer visible. 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
- DG096-019001: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-019001-. Situated beside the road at Teelin Bay pier are the fragmentary remains of a rectangular church (DG096-019-). The gable of a factory shed is built almost flush against it and the wall of another shed hems in the church on the S. A quantity of bones were dug up close to the church in the 1890's, possibly indicating a graveyard (DG096-019001-) no longer visible. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Stáisiún Garda Cósta an Teileann, boathouse, coastguard station, 1860–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40909615, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40909615. Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey former coastguard boathouse, built 1871, originally associated with Teelin Coastguard Station (now ruinous and not in survey). Now in use as a private boathouse. Pitched corrugated metal roof. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction with rock-faced ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation (north) with dressed margins. Single segmental-headed window opening to the centre of each side elevation (east and west) having rock-faced ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with dressed margins, cut stone sills; openings now blocked. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to the front elevation (north) having rock-faced ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with dressed margins, and with replacement timber double-doors. Set back from road adjacent to Teelin Pier, and to the south-west of Cill Charta/Kilcar. Remains of associated former coastguard station to the south-west (not in survey); associated slipway to the north having rubble stone construction and with cobbled decked. Former icehouse adjacent to the west.
- Water pump, 1900–1920, Regional interest, registry number 40909616, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40909616. Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1910, comprising fluted shaft on moulded base surmounted by fluted domed capping with acorn finial over, and having lion's head motif to spout. Pull lever to side. Out of use. Foundry mark 'Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock' to shaft. Sited adjacent to rubble stone wall at the landward end of Teelin Pier, and to the south-west of Cill Charta/Kilcar.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rinnakill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rinnakill.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rinnakill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rinnakill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rinnakill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rinnakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ummerawirrinan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ummerawirrinan.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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