Rinn

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinn, from 57 m² to 165,875 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Rinn 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.

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, detached garage/shed, waste water treatment system, new entrance, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660050

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  carry out the following development: (A) construction of dwelling house, detached garage/shed, waste water treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works, (B) the relocation of an existing field entrance, and (C) the formation of a new field entrance.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560347

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well , new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360105

• 21 Mar 2023N/a

  full planning permission to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well , new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360103

• 26 Apr 2019Conditional

  retain domestic extension, retain domestic garage/fuel store and all associated ancillary works to include alterations to site boundary

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19230

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 Rinn.

Recorded monuments

• LA003-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown as a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m NW-SE) on OS 6-inch maps. Site has been quarried out and back-filled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rinn, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Rinn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rinn · An Rinn

Area

1,151,122 m² (115.11 ha, 284.45 acres)

Civil parish

Rosenallis, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Rosenallis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

442 people lived in 140 households in the Rosenallis electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camira Glebe, Cappabeg, Nutgrove, Nyra, Shanbeg

Placenames

Rinn 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.