Rinnashinnagh
Rinnashinnagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Rinn na Sionnach.
- Area
- 227 ha
- 561 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 12,823 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinnashinnagh, from 143 m² to 690,855 m² (69.09 ha, 170.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Rinnashinnagh 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
5 Dec 2025N/a
The development shall consist of permission for the erection of a shed (storage - marine equipment) structure and all associated ancillary site services and development works as described in the application documentation.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560884
21 Dec 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house, domestic garage with connection to proprietary effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23684
25 Jul 2022Conditional
Construction of a domestic storage shed/garage
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22613
8 Feb 2022N/a
SECTION 5 DECLARATION; PROVISON OF SUB-40 SQM EXTENSION TO REAR OF PROPERTY, RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2257
31 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19878
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: Broadhaven Bay SAC 000472
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Broadhaven Bay 000472
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rinnashinnagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rinnashinnagh.
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 Rinnashinnagh, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rinnashinnagh.
- 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 Rinnashinnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Rinnashinnagh · Rinn na Sionnach
- Area
- 2,269,590 m² (226.96 ha, 560.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Muings, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 223 people lived in 91 households in the Muings electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Muings, Pollagarraun
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Rinnashinnagh 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.