Tinneel

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tinneel, from 94 m² to 403,636 m² (40.36 ha, 99.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  to (A) retain a granny flat, outdoor dining area and storage shed (B) the decommissioning of an existing septic tank and the construction of a new onsite wastewater treatment system, including all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660019

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  retention of existing sheds to the rear of the dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21833

• 8 Jul 2021Conditional

  retain existing single storey domestic extension measuring 21sqm to the rear of property and permission is sought for amendment of previously approved site boundaries to planning permission 06/1919

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21492

• 5 Jul 2021N/a

  retain existing single storey domestic extension measuring 21sqm to the rear of property and permission is sought for amendment of previously approved site boundaries to planning permission 06/1919

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21479

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 Tinneel.

Recorded monuments

• LA003-017 Burial ground
  Description

  Friends Burial ground, almost square shaped area, walled and well-kept graves. No head stones pre-1700 AD in date. The present village of Rosenallis was founded by the Quakers in the second half of the 17th century. William Edmundson came to Ireland from Scotland and settled first in Virginia in Co. Cavan and then settled in Mountmellick and Rosenallis in 1659. William Edmundson died in 1712 and is buried in the Quaker burial ground in Rosenallis, the oldest in Ireland. The plaque near his grave reads - "Near this spot is buried William Edmundson, the first member of the Society of Friends who settled in Ireland. Died 31st of 6th Month 1712 (old style). Aged nearly 85 years." (www.rosenallis.com) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 15 September 2010

• LA003-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Polygonal shaped enclosure identified on aerial photograph (GSIAP N 205-06; 406-07; Swan 35BWN_00091_31). Polygonal shape of field boundary on S side of monument may represent part of the monument identified from aerial photographs. Slightly elevated site in generally low lying area. Nothing can be seen of this possible site from the ground except for a depression at the N side which may be part of the enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1710–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quaker graveyard with various plots, c. 1725 to the present. Gateway, c. 1800, to site.

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 Tinneel, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tinneel · An Tiníl

Area

706,992 m² (70.7 ha, 174.7 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, Mullaghanard or Derreen, Rosenallis, Shanbeg, Srahleagh

Placenames

Tinneel 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.