Rinnerroon

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinnerroon, from 189 m² to 96,846 m² (9.68 ha, 23.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rinnerroon 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.

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a Dwelling House, Sewage Treatment System and Domestic Garage. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 194 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201705

• 18 Nov 2019Conditional

  for a 39sq.m boathouse. Gross floor space of proposed works: 39 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191792

• 22 Aug 2019Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 194 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191303

• 13 Jun 2017Conditional

  of domestic shed and associated works (gross floor space 61sqm)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17858

• 6 Jun 2017Conditional

  to erect a boat shelter over the shore side of the existing jetty to cover a Corrib type open fishing boat. The structure will be approximately 8 metres in length and 4 metres wide. Construction will be in red granite to match the existing house and pier, with teak doors. Roofing will be with tiles to match the existing house. The structure will span app. half of the existing width of the jetty, with a slipway remaining for the other half.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17832

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rinnerroon.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rinnerroon, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rinnerroon.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Rinnerroon · Rinn Oiriún

Area

327,893 m² (32.79 ha, 81.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Letterfore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

283 people lived in 108 households in the Letterfore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farravaun, Gorterwulla

Placenames

Rinnerroon 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.