Rinnacurreen

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinnacurreen, from 964 m² to 98,636 m² (9.86 ha, 24.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Rinnacurreen 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 Rinnacurreen 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 Rinnacurreen.

Recorded monuments

• LE031-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a low drumlin with a shore of Lough Corry on the River Shannon c. 135m to the NW at the closest point. This is a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 36.5m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.25m), which is overlain by a field wall and hedge NW-NE, and there are traces of an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.1m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 16 October 2019

• LE031-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position with a shore of Lough Corry on the River Shannon c. 75m to the SE at the closest point. This is a grass-covered subcircular earthen platform (dims 43m N-S; 37.5m E-W) that slopes down to the E. It is defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.45m) incorporated into a field bank and hedge SE-W-N, with evidence of a fosse in a band of lush vegetation (Wth 3m) N-SE. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 16 October 2019

• LE031-096 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position with a shore of Lough Corry on the River Shannon c. 60m to the SE. This is depicted as a small triangular field on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and on the 1945 revision. It is an overgrown oval area (int. dims c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.25m). It has no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance but it is known locally as a ‘fort’ The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 17 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1457 (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 Rinnacurreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Rinnacurreen · Rinn an Choirrín

Area

784,073 m² (78.41 ha, 193.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Carrick-On-Shannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrick-On-Shannon electoral division: 4,445 people in 1,721 households; 56% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attirory, Ballynacleigh, Drumkeeran

Placenames

Rinnacurreen 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.