Rinn

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinn, from 57 m² to 170,179 m² (17.02 ha, 42.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Rinn 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.

• 30 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660656

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a farm shed (grain store) & for all ancillary services & site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660250

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system & percolation area & for all ancillary services & site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660255

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  for a proposed two storey dwelling & detached garage to include a proposed wastewater treatment system with percolation area with associated site services/landscaping. The proposal includes a new road access

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561563

• 15 Oct 2025Refused

  of planning ref 20/922 to remove part of existing farm building and to construct two farm buildings (grain store and malt house). Gross floor space of proposed works: 567.6 sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 25280

• 21 May 2025N/a

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 136 sqm(H), 20 sqm(G)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560628

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  for a change of house plans from those previously approved under planning register reference no. 22/313

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360824

• 12 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a rear extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations and refurbishment of same. Permission also for the replacement of the existing septic tank with a new proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360374

• 28 Feb 2023Conditional

  the change of house plans on a revised site layout with the relocation of the proposed garage following grant of planning permission Ref. No. 22/306 and all associated works. Gross floor area: dwelling- 286msq, garage- 60msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360181

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 242.5 sqm + 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22313

• 8 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 312 sqm (272 sqm + 40 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22306

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, a detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, alterations to an existing agricultural entrance and provision of a new vehicular entrance, and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 295.9 sqm and 49.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211861

• 21 Oct 2020Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, on site waste water treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 263 sqm (H); 40 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201551

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  to remove part of existing farm building and to construct two farm buildings (grain store and malt house). Gross floor space of proposed works: 567.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20922

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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA095-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating grassland. This poorly preserved roughly subcircular rath (36m N-S) is defined by a low earthen bank (overall Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m). Gaps at N and E appears to be modern. (McCaffrey 1952, 141, no. 44) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• GA095-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Circular rath (diam. 39m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank and fosse are visible all round but the outer bank is only evident from S through W to NE. There is a stone-lined entrance gap (Wth 3.3m) at SE. A pathway overlies the fosse from NE to SE. A souterrain (GA095-121001-) lies in the N half of the interior. (Athy 1914, 135; McCaffrey 1952, 140, no. 45) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• GA095-121001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the N half of a rath (GA095-121----). This collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L 7m; Wth 2.5m) is aligned E-W. (Athy 1914, 135) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• GA095-122 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in tillage. Referred to by McCaffrey (1952, 141, no. 44a) as both as a ‘hut circle’ (diam. c. 14.3m) and a ‘fort’; it was defined by a bank with an entrance gap at SE. The interior was filled with field rubble. All that is now visible is a roughly circular mound in the corner of a field. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_623 (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 Rinn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rinn · An Rinn

Area

1,406,915 m² (140.69 ha, 347.66 acres)

Civil parish

Oranmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Oranmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oranmore electoral division: 4,721 people in 1,706 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynageeha, Moneymore East, Moneymore West, Oran Beg, Oran More

Placenames

Rinn 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.