Rinneen

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinneen, from 48 m² to 219,791 m² (21.98 ha, 54.31 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.

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.

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  planning permission at existing dwelling to 1.) raze existing rear annex 2) construction new extension 3.) improve existing entrance and access road including new dry-stone entrance wall and improve entrance road and 4.) decommission existing septic tank and install new upgraded mechanised treatment plant and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560812

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  planning permission at existing dwelling to 1.) raze existing rear annex 2.) construction new extension3.) adopt existing kitchen window to sliding patio door, introduce 3No. Velux rooflights, and 4.) decommission existing septic tank and install new upgraded mechanised treatment plant and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560813

• 23 Aug 2025N/a

  Invalid: planning permission at existing dwelling to 1.) raze existing rear annex 2) construction new extension 3.) improve existing entrance and access road including new dry-stone entrance wall and improve entrance road and 4.) decommission existing septic tank and install new upgraded mechanised treatment plant and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560733

• 23 Aug 2025N/a

  Invalid: planning permission at existing dwelling to 1.) raze existing rear annex 2.) construction new extension 3.) adopt existing kitchen window to sliding patio door, introduce 3No. Velux rooflights, and 4.) decommission existing septic tank and install new upgraded mechanised treatment plant and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560734

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: Ballinskelligs Bay and Inny Estuary SAC 000335
• Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA 004154
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinskelligs Bay And Inny Estuary 000335

Recorded monuments

• KE105-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site is marked as a semicircular outline on the first edition of the OS map, and is located at the SE end of Calf Cove. It is named 'Caher' on the OS Fair Plan, which also depicts a rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, in its NE sector. The site survives as two upright slabs, .93m apart and aligned E-W. The N pillar is 1.55m high and measures .37m .25m at base. Inclining towards N, the S pillar stands 1.4m high and is .33m .25m at base. A barely perceptible bank extends a short distance from each pillar and there is no visible trace of the rectangular structure. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 687. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE105-004 Barracks
  Description

  Situated on top of a short undulating E-W running ridge c. 2.15kms ESE\E of the tip of Hog’s Head (OD c. 119m). The terrain slopes sharply down to the W before rising again reaching a high point (OD c. 87m) after c. 475m, and rises sharply to the E before reaching a high point (OD c. 291m) after c. 612m. The landscape surrounding the site of the signal station\barracks also slopes sharply down to the coastline at Ballinskellings Bay, located c. 322m to the NNW, where there are abrupt sea cliffs, and slopes sharply down to the coastline at Coosilenanoon, located c. 240m to the SW, where there are also steep sea cliffs overlooking Kenmare Bay. The site has unobstructed views to the N, S and W with more limited views to the E on account of the rising topography. The surrounding area is characterised by rough unenclosed rocky ground\rough pastureland in the immediate environs of the signal station\barracks with limited areas of enclosed pastureland (possibly historic), defined by linear and irregular rubble stone boundary walls, to the S (after c. 100m) and to the W (after c. 420m). The site is located c. 10.1kms to the E\ESE of the signal station at Bolus Point (KE096-024----), where the tower survives as a low ruin, and c. 9.42kms E\ESE of the ‘enclosed barracks’ site at Bolus Head (KE104-001----; survives as a ruin), which is contemporaneous and comparable in form to this signal station\barracks site at Bolus Head, and c. 20.5kms to the N of the signal station\tower on Dursey Island, Cork (CO126-005----), where the signal station\tower survives in a good condition close to its original full height. This former signal station\barracks at Hog’s Head is located c. 1.9kms W\WSW of a children’s burial ground (KE106-014----), located at Bailín, and c. 2.3kms W\WSW of a cashel, ‘Loher Fort’ (KE106-015----) at An Lóthar, where there are the remains of a number of early Medieval structures. The remains of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1810) three-bay two-storey or single-storey over raised basement rectangular-plan (ext. dims c. 10.5m NW-SE x c. 4.3m NE-SW) former enclosed barracks\signal station associated with the signal station\tower network. Possibly\probably originally with a signal mast to site. Constructed of random rubble sandstone (wall Wth c. 0.75m) with some flush roughly-dressed sandstone quoins to the corners. Surviving sections of lime render in places to exterior faces. Gable-ended (NW and SE) with tall rubble stone chimneystacks rising over gable ends (to apex to NE end). Mono-pitched roof (collapsed) with roof originally sloping from rear elevation (NE; wall H c. 9m) to front elevation (SW; wall H c. 7m). Square-headed doorway to the centre of the front elevation (SW) at first floor level. Doorway original reached up flight of freestanding rubble stone ramp\steps (L SW-NE c. 5.4m) with a gap (L c. 2.2m SW-NE) that formerly gave access to doorway via a timber gangway\drawbridge, now gone; rubble stone parapet walls to either side of entrance steps. Square-headed window openings with stone voussoirs flank central doorway at first floor level to SW elevation with corresponding square-headed window openings below at ground floor level (to NW and SE ends of entrance elevation to SW). Square-headed window opening to the SE end of the rear elevation (NE) at first floor level. Single-bay one-and-a-half storey rubble stone annexes are attached to either gable end of main structure (NW and SE) formerly with mono-pitched roofs (now collapsed) that sloped downwards from gable walls of main structure; annexes now partially collapsed, particularly the SE annex. Square-headed doorway to the front (SW) elevations of each annex at ground floor level. Internally, each floor of the main body of the building is divided into three rooms. All four side rooms (two to ground floor and two to first floor to NW and SE ends) feature square-headed fireplaces (to corners\corner fireplaces) and square-headed alcoves that retain evidence of shelving incised into the render. There are two fireplaces at ground floor level to either gable end (NW and SE) of main body of building with one fireplace over to each gable end at first floor level. The central rooms to each floor both feature plain square-headed alcoves but no fireplaces. Access into the main building from the additions\annexes was through square-headed doors to the side walls, at ground floor level to the SE addition\annex, and at first floor level on the NW addition\annex. The annexes also feature corner fireplaces. Remnants of smooth render to interior. Rear elevation of main body of building forms part of the NE side of a rectangular-plan enclosure (ext. dims c. 26.5m NE-SW x c. 23m NW-SE) defined by well-built rubble stone boundary walls (wall T c. 0.6m; max H c. 1.8m). Boundary wall to the SE side of enclosure now partially collapsed. Square-plan bastions project outwards from the boundary walls to each corner of the enclosure (N, S, E, and W) each with two splayed gun vertical gun loops to provide enfilading fire along each wall; bastions now largely collapsed. The site is shown on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, in its current form with an almost square enclosure with the bastions to each of the four corners. The building is shown against the NE wall of the enclosure and has a T-shaped plan, indicating that the external steps were drawn as being part of a singular structure. It is marked as ‘Old Light Ho.’ The site is one of four Enclosed Barracks of extremely similar form that were constructed around the coast of County Kerry (Kerrigan 1995, 162-3). Although some uncertainty remains about the age of the sites, all four of the enclosed barracks were likely constructed between 1808 and 1812. The sites seem to have been specifically related to the system of signal stations\towers constructed around the Irish coast between 1804 and 1806, added in areas where intervisibility between signal towers had proved difficult. It is not clear if these larger and more complex additions to the system were designed to house larger signal crews, or if they were designed to house the same size signal crews in more comfort than was to be found at the unpopular signal towers. The Enclosed Barracks were presumably abandoned by 1815, when the signal towers around the SW coast were decommissioned. Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Updated on: 12/10/22 Images: KE105-004----.01 View of SW elevation of main body of building. KE105-004----.02 Oblique view from the S KE105-004----.03 View of external steps serving entrance from the NW KE105-004----.04 View of annex to the SE from the SE KE105-004----.05 View of rear elevation (NE) KE105-004----.06 View from the NW KE105-004----.07 Detail of alcove to interior KE105-004----.08 Detail of corner fireplace at ground floor level to interior. KE105-004----.09 Context from the NW 1 KE105-004----.10 Context from the NW 2

• KE106-001 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface trace survives of the small circular enclosure marked on the first edition of the OS map at this location. The site now consists of a roughly square area defined on three sides by straight field boundaries and on its N side by some large boulders. The enclosed area is level and measures 17.5m N-S x 16.7m E-W. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 835. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE106-115 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on the lower NE spur of Knockstooka, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay at NW, are the very disturbed remains of a caher and souterrain. The site, not marked on the OS maps, is bisected by a N-S field wall from which a second wall runs at right angles to W. The remains of a relatively modern stone-built house occupy a portion of the site's NW quadrant. The enclosing wall can be traced from N to E, where it survives only one to two courses high and measures 3m wide. Externally it is faced with large slabs. A prominent entrance, 1.2m wide, is located at E and is marked at its four angles by small pillar-like slabs which average .77m high, .48m wide and .3m thick. The sides of the 3m long entrance passage are faced with coursed drystone masonry. An opening to a stone-built souterrain (KE106-115001-) passage is located just inside the enclosing element of the caher in its N sector. The passage is aligned N-S and is at least 4.5m long. Its sides are formed by upright slabs overlain with drystone masonry, and it is roofed with lintels. There is an accumulation of stone and earthen fill, including a collapsed lintel, along the passage, both ends of which are blocked with collapse. The passage averages 1.2m wide and is up to 1.3m high. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 614. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE106-115001 Souterrain
  Description

  An opening to a stone-built souterrain (KE106-115001-) passage is located just inside the enclosing element of the caher in its N sector. The passage is aligned N-S and is at least 4.5m long. Its sides are formed by upright slabs overlain with drystone masonry, and it is roofed with lintels. There is an accumulation of stone and earthen fill, including a collapsed lintel, along the passage, both ends of which are blocked with collapse. The passage averages 1.2m wide and is up to 1.3m high. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 614. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 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.

No address of the register names Rinneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rinneen · An Rinnín

Area

1,832,464 m² (183.25 ha, 452.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Darrynane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Darrynane electoral division: 193 people in 82 households; 86% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 65% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleen, Coomatloukane, Loher, Reenearagh

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.