Rinneen

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinneen, from 250 m² to 147,914 m² (14.79 ha, 36.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Rinneen 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.

• 30 Jul 2026N/a

  of house, garage and all associated site services on revised site boundaries to previously approved planning permission ref: 04/3597. Amendments also include: Minor elevational changes to existing house; Roof windows & extensions to rear elevation; Tennis court located to the rear of the property

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661324

• 16 Dec 2025N/a

  of a domestic shed and horse stables and to construct a dung stead and soiled water storage tank

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561873

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 181sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171090

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rinneen.

Recorded monuments

• GA123-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 24m). A NW-SE running field boundary cut across it from W to SSE and a NE-SW running road clipped from E to SE. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Roseville Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800, having single-bay single-storey addition to rear. Pitched scolloped reed thatched roof with decorative raised ridge to house and addition, recent rendered chimneystack, and rendered copings. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed door and window openings with replacement uPVC windows and door and painted tooled stone sills. Yard and lawn to front and outbuildings to rear.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_804 (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 Rinneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rinneen · An Rinnín

Area

783,699 m² (78.37 ha, 193.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltartan electoral division: 859 people in 290 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurphy, Ballynamantan, Carrownavohanaun, Castletown, Cloon, Kinincha, Lavally, Lisrabirra

Placenames

Rinneen 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.