Rinrush

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinrush, from 1,015 m² to 54,010 m² (5.4 ha, 13.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Rinrush 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rinrush in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rinrush.

Recorded monuments

• GA123-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (34.4m E-W; 31.5m N-S) defined by a bank. There is a wide gap (Wth 9m) at NNE. Another rath lies c. 75m to the NE and there is a children's burial ground (GA123-092----) c. 120m to the W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA123-092 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Some 80m to the NW of a rath (GA123-092----). This children's burial ground is marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a rectangular unenclosed area (c. 20m NW-SE; c. 15m E-W). An arc of loose stones from NW to NNE may indicate its N extent. Within it one/two possible grave-markers are visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA123-093 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying marshy ground c. 15m to the SE of a stream. This fulacht fia is defined by a well-preserved horseshoe-shaped mound (11.6m E-W; 11.4m N-S; H 0.6m) opening to the N. Burnt soil and stone are evident. A burnt mound (GA123-094----) lies c. 255m to the NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 November 2019

• GA123-094 Burnt mound
  Description

  On marshy ground c. 13m to the SE of a stream. This burnt mound is defined by a well-preserved subcircular mound (diam. 12.8m; H 0.6m) composed of burnt soil and stones. A fulacht fia (GA123-093----) lies c. 255m to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_803 (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 Rinrush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rinrush · Roinn Rois

Area

523,018 m² (52.3 ha, 129.24 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

Ballyaneen North, Ballyloughaun, Carrownavohanaun, Castletown, Deerpark, Newtown

Placenames

Rinrush 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.