# Rinn, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rosenallis, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish An Rinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,151,122 m² (115.11 ha, 284.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,600 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rosenallis, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rosenallis.md - Barony: Tinnahinch - Electoral division: Rosenallis, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28644 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100987 - Centre: latitude 53.144366, longitude -7.386253 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinn, from 57 m² to 165,875 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 262316: 165,875 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262316.md - Parcel 267295: 133,547 m² (13.35 ha, 33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267295.md - Parcel 245786: 105,388 m² (10.54 ha, 26.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245786.md - Parcel 234836: 88,947 m² (8.89 ha, 21.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234836.md - Parcel 226643: 80,956 m² (8.1 ha, 20 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226643.md - Parcel 258792: 73,288 m² (7.33 ha, 18.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258792.md - Parcel 264930: 46,457 m² (4.65 ha, 11.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264930.md - Parcel 228291: 43,079 m² (4.31 ha, 10.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228291.md - Parcel 245934: 41,535 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245934.md - Parcel 250258: 41,108 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250258.md - Parcel 263334: 41,083 m² (4.11 ha, 10.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263334.md - Parcel 243927: 39,729 m² (3.97 ha, 9.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243927.md - Parcel 233619: 34,057 m² (3.41 ha, 8.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233619.md - Parcel 257732: 30,548 m² (3.05 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257732.md - Parcel 232117: 29,913 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232117.md - Parcel 247965: 28,445 m² (2.84 ha, 7.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247965.md - Parcel 239916: 23,705 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239916.md - Parcel 258088: 16,568 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258088.md - Parcel 264412: 12,750 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264412.md - Parcel 225709: 10,450 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225709.md - Parcel 4406666: 8,583 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406666.md - Parcel 4406545: 7,791 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406545.md - Parcel 227634: 6,933 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227634.md - Parcel 229953: 6,215 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229953.md - Parcel 265171: 5,338 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265171.md - Parcel 231835: 4,574 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231835.md - Parcel 5988928: 3,823 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5988928.md - Parcel 268511: 3,819 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268511.md - Parcel 233276: 2,806 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233276.md - Parcel 4406397: 2,575 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406397.md - Parcel 232589: 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232589.md - Parcel 357859: 2,089 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357859.md - Parcel 254848: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254848.md - Parcel 263916: 1,307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263916.md - Parcel 5983468: 825 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5983468.md - Parcel 4406706: 447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406706.md - Parcel 256216: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/256216.md - Parcel 3935474: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3935474.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 3 Feb 2026, Laois County Council 2660050: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construct a dwelling house, detached garage/shed, waste water treatment system, new entrance, and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660050/0 - 10 Jun 2025, Laois County Council 2560347: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560347/0 - 23 Mar 2023, Laois County Council 2360105: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well , new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360105/0 - 21 Mar 2023, Laois County Council 2360103: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360103/0 - 26 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19230: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain domestic extension, retain domestic garage/fuel store and all associated ancillary works to include alterations to site boundary. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19230/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rinn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA003-019: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA003-019----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rinn. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/rinn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/rinn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/rinn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rinn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Camira Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/camira-glebe.md - Cappabeg: https://everytownland.com/laois/cappabeg.md - Nutgrove: https://everytownland.com/laois/nutgrove.md - Nyra: https://everytownland.com/laois/nyra.md - Shanbeg: https://everytownland.com/laois/shanbeg.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/rinn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/rinn