Rinecaha
Rinecaha is a townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare.
Parcel 1441864
- Area
- 8,996 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Rinecaha
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- CL011-040 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture at the NE end of a narrow spit of land extending SW into Ballyeighter Lough. A possible ring-barrow (max. diam. c. 14m) defined by a fosse and outer bank visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotography. A second possible ring-barrow (CL011-041----) lies c. 18m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025
- CL011-041 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture at the NE end of a narrow spit of land extending SW into Ballyeighter Lough. A possible ring-barrow (max. diam c. 11m) defined by a fosse and outer bank visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotography. A second possible ring-barrow (CL011-040----) lies c. 18m to the NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 207.8 ha
- 514 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 25,370 m² (2.54 ha, 6.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinecaha, from 252 m² to 958,523 m² (95.85 ha, 236.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rinecaha 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
No planning application touches the townland of Rinecaha 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
- CL011-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture c. 250m E of Ballyeighter Lough. Hachured on both the first edition (1842) and later, Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular rath (int. diams. 27m WNW-ESE; 23.2m NNE-SSW; ext. diams. 35.8m WNW-ESE; 30m NNE-SSW) is defined by a broad earthen bank which is best preserved W-N (Wth 4-6.4m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 0.5m), but reduced elsewhere to a low scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) with a slight bank (int. H 0.2-0.5m; Wth 1.7-2.7m) along its top. There is a livestock gap at NNW and the enclosing bank is covered with fist-sized fieldstones and occasional boulders – the result of field clearance - and is overgrown with trees and bushes. A later field wall runs WNW-ESE over the S edge of the interior and another field wall overlies the enclosing bank NE-SSE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 January 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rinecaha.
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 Rinecaha, 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 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 Rinecaha.
- 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 Rinecaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Rinecaha
- Area
- 2,078,325 m² (207.83 ha, 513.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Ballyeighter, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyeighter, Castlequarter Kilkeedy, Cross, Garvillaun, Lyan, Magheranraheen or Rockforest, Poulmacrih, Treanmanagh, Turkenagh
- Placenames
- Rinecaha 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.