Rhine

143 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rhine, from 310 m² to 189,785 m² (18.98 ha, 46.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Rhine 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 Nov 2025Conditional

  end of waste activities within the footprint of the existing quarry, where some activities include; 1) Acceptance, processing and recovery of in-coming inert waste material arising from construction and demolition activity, comprising concrete, bricks, soil or other such similar material, to become a certified product for reuse in construction related industries 2) The maximum annual intake of incoming waste material shall not exceed of 24,500 tonnes; 3) The processing will include standard crushing and screening using the existing quarry plant; The site infrastructure for the proposed End of Waste activities will be limited to bays comprising storage and processing; 4) All ancillary site development works. The proposed development seeking planning permission will require a 'Waste Facility Permit' for the acceptance and processing of the in-coming waste, which will be sought through a separate application to Longford County Council. The proposed development seeking planning permission will require registration with Environmental Protection Agency for End of Waste recovery under the National End of-Waste Decision EoWN00l/2023 criteria

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560252

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  the development consists of a total area of 18.6 hectares and comprises of the following: (1) Extraction of rock by blasting means down to a level of 20mOD from an area of approximately 14.2 hectares. (2) Erection of a concrete batching plant, processing plant, block yard, storage sheds, workshop, office buildings, weighbridge, wheelwash, settlement lagoon and all other associated ancillary facilities at the proposed manufacturing area of approximately 2.1 hectares. (3) Landscaping consisting of planted berms surround (1.6 hectares). (4) Entrance and access road from the public road to the manufacturing area (0.7 hectares). (5) Landscaping and restoration of the site on completion of extraction. The planning permission is for a 25 year period. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2439

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  the proposed construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360216

• 19 Jan 2023N/a

  the development of a total area of 18.6 hectares and comprises of the following: (1) Extraction of rock by blasting means down to a level of 20mOD from an area of approximately 14.2 Hectares. (2) Erection of a concrete batching plant, processing plant, block yard, storage sheds, workshop, office buildings, weighbridge, wheelwash, settlement lagoon and all other associated ancillary facilities at the proposed manufacturing area of approximately 2.1 Hectares. (3) Landscaping consisting of planted Berms surround (1.6 Hectares). (4) Entrance and access road from the public road to the manufacturing area (0.7 Hectares). (5) Landscaping and restoration of the site on completion of extractions. The planning permission is for a 25-year period

  Permission · Longford County Council, 237

• 31 Jan 2020Conditional

  the continuance of (i) extraction of aggregates on an area of 1.431 hectares; (ii) processing/loading of aggregates on an area of 0.233 hectares; (iii) manufacture of ready-mix concrete in existing plant (176m2); (iv) importation and storage of sand for use in concrete manufacturing (0.008 hectares); (v) use of existing weighbridge and wheel wash (154m2)and (vi) existing site entrance and access areas (0.956 hectares), all within 2.661 hectares of the site development authorised under Pl08/529 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2017

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 Rhine.

Recorded monuments

• LF009-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture; a spring well lies adjacent at WNW. A raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.5-0.9m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 5.8-6.4m; D 0.45-1m). A break (Wth 4m) in the bank at E marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF009-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in pasture; the Camlin River is c. 80m to the SW. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A circular area (diam. c. 25.5m) is defined by a low scarp from SE-NW; elsewhere it has been levelled. It is divided into roughly equal portions by a modern NW-SE field boundary. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over the Camlin River, built c. 1860. Constructed of coursed rock-faced limestone with rounded dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Bridge largely overgrown with ivy. Terminating piers to either side of arch having splayed bases and with dressed coping over. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced limestone voussoirs having dressed V-jointed dressed margins. Squared coursed dressed limestone to barrel and abutments. Skewed construction to barrel. Rubble stone wing walls to either end of bridge (north and south). Rock-faced string course to base of piers, possibly extending across bridge at road/deck level (overgrown). Located to the southwest of Ballinalee.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rhine.

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 Rhine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Rhine · An Roinn

Area

3,085,838 m² (308.58 ha, 762.53 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloonee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonee electoral division: 767 people in 271 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboy, Farraghroe, Garvagh, Glenoghil, Killeter, Killoe Glebe, Kilnacarrow, Mucknagh

Placenames

Rhine 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.