Rinneen
Townland in the civil parish of Moycullen, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish An Rinnín
- Area
- 100.4 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 2,724 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinneen, from 35 m² to 126,118 m² (12.61 ha, 31.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jul 2024Conditional
of the dwelling house, domestic garage, shed, septic and percolation area including all associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 293.40 sqm (house) & 72.17 sqm (shed)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460810
21 May 2024N/a
for dwelling house, domestic garage, shed, septic and percolation area including all associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 293.40 sqm (house) & 71.17 sqm (garage)
Retention · Galway County Council, 2460587
23 Aug 2022Conditional
for an extension and alterations to dwelling house and retention permission for existing annexe building to form part of the proposed extension to the dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 22.30 sq m. Gross floor space of proposed works 73.60 sq m.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260839
5 May 2020Conditional
Cead le hahaidh le athrú plean an tí a bhí ceadaithe cheanna fhéin faoi uimhir pleanáil 18/391 ag an seoladh thuas. Gross floor space of proposed works: 153.1sqm +54sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20551
29 Mar 2018Conditional
chun teach nua cónaithe a thógáil chomh maith le garáiste nua córás searachais nua. Gross floor space of proposed works (teach) 181.2 sqm. & (garáiste) 54 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18391
15 Jun 2017Conditional
of existing dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank and puroflo wastewater treatment system granted under ref. no.04/2904 on revised site boundaries (gross floor space 222.47sqm)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17883
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: Ross Lake and Woods SAC 001312
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ross Lake And Woods 001312
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rinneen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rinneen.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rinneen.
- 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 Rinneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Rinneen · An Rinnín
- Area
- 1,004,251 m² (100.43 ha, 248.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moycullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Slieveaneena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Slieveaneena electoral division: 797 people in 280 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydotia, Cloonnabinnia, Corbally, Deerfield or Gortnavea, Drimneen, Killannin, Knockbane, Knockshanbally
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- 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.