Rinaneel
Rinaneel is a townland in the civil parish of Burriscarra, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Rinn an Aoil.
- Area
- 73.7 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 3,092 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinaneel, from 109 m² to 88,816 m² (8.88 ha, 21.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rinaneel 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jun 2026N/a
Planning Permission to construct an extension to existing dwelling house as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660432
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
7 Jul 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22559
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
- Special Protection Area: Lough Carra SPA 004051
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774
Recorded monuments
- MA100-110 Enclosure
Description
In rough pasture, sloping to S, overlooking ough. Carra. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. No visible surface traces. Possible ringfort site. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 388. Date of upload: 7 February 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rinaneel.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rinaneel, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rinaneel.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rinaneel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Rinaneel · Rinn an Aoil
- Area
- 737,022 m² (73.7 ha, 182.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burriscarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Burriscarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 453 people lived in 166 households in the Burriscarra electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annies, Carrownagreggaun, Clooncan, Clooneenkillew, Muckloon or Moorehall, Rooghaun
- Placenames
- Rinaneel 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.