Ringeelaun
Townland in the civil parish of Drumacoo, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Rinn Ghiolláin
- Area
- 85.2 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 32,844 m² (3.28 ha, 8.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ringeelaun, from 993 m² to 176,049 m² (17.6 ha, 43.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ringeelaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 May 2018Unconditional
for (1) refurbishment and alterations to existing dwellinghouse (2) construction of new extension (3) replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, (4) demolition of existing front porch and rear extension and (5) demolition of outbuildings/sheds, including all associated site works (gross floor space proposed 184.46sqm; retention 133.4sqm). Previous Planning Ref. No. 12/1632.
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18672
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
- Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ringeelaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ringeelaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ringeelaun.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ringeelaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ringeelaun · Rinn Ghiolláin
- Area
- 852,121 m² (85.21 ha, 210.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumacoo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Drumacoo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumacoo electoral division: 1,561 people in 514 households; 83% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Killeenaran, Mulroog East, Mulroog West
- Placenames
- Ringeelaun 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.