Rindifin
Rindifin is a townland in the civil parish of Beagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Rinn Daibhchín.
Parcel 3305833
- Area
- 1,959 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 126 m².
- 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
- Rindifin
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_768 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 96.1 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 205
- registered freehold, median 463 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential Existing
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
205 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rindifin, from 28 m² to 84,313 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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
- R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 117 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.2Industrial (General industry)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N6Public Utility (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Business & Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rindifin.
Recorded monuments
- GA123-085 Ringfort - cashel
Description
At N end of a low ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. c. 24.6m) defined by a drystone wall best preserved at SW. Modern field walls overlie the monument at SE and NW. Another cashel (GA123-086----) lies c. 130m to the WSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018
- GA123-086 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Some 130m to the WSW of another cashel (GA123-085----). Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 25m E-W; c. 20m N-S). Apart from the arc of a drystone wall running from SE through S to W, no visible surface trace survives. A hay barn occupied the interior. A gravel pit lies outside the enclosing element from S to W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018
- GA123-088 House - 18th/19th century
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA129-036 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rindifin.
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 Rindifin, 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 made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_768 (ZIP).
- 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 Rindifin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Rindifin · Rinn Daibhchín
- Area
- 960,905 m² (96.09 ha, 237.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Beagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Gort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,186 people lived in 1,175 households in the Gort electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowgarriff, Cloghnakeava, Cloonnahaha, Lavally, Prospect
- Placenames
- Rindifin 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.