Rinnagan

131 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rinnagan, from 13 m² to 147,467 m² (14.75 ha, 36.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rinnagan 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey rear extension along with a new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works. This application has an accompanying NIS report at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660424

• 12 Jun 2025N/a

  Planning permission to install new treatment system and all ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560281

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing agricultural structure and construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560222

• 20 May 2024Refused

  Permission: 1. To refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations, 2. To construct new extension to the rear and new front porch to same, 3. To construct new domestic garage, 4. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460224

• 18 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission for the construction of single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, and construction of single storey domestic 2 car garage with adjoining workshop, new sewage treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23384

• 15 Sept 2022N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the demolition of elements of the existing dwelling and outbuildings, the construction of a new single storey extension, new private water well and new wastewater treatment system with tertiary treatment system together with all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22495

• 16 Aug 2022N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the demolition of elements of the existing dwelling and outbuildings, the construction of a new single storey extension, new private water well and new wastewater treatment system with tertiary treatment system together with all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22438

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the erection of new 1.82m high opaque steel fence to enclose a section of land measuring 35m long and 22m wide and all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21630

• 3 Jan 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new private dwelling; a detached garage; a new entrance; a new proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 192

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  for an extension to domestic garage, lean-to storage shed, pony stable and agricultural entrance at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18258

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  to construct dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area and carryout all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18231

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: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• RO046-004004 Town defences
  Description

  The town wall of Rindown (L c. 500m) crosses the peninsula NE-SW just where it emerges from the mainland, and forms the townland boundary between Warren with the town of Rindown to its SE and Rinnagan to the NW. It was probably built after 1251 when funds were granted for the enclosure of Rindown. It has a gateway and three mural towers. The wall survives in good condition (H c. 3m) with an outer base-batter, evidence of a wall-walk and a levelling-up line (H c. 1-1.5m over ground level). A programme of conservation began in 2008, beginning with the most southerly tower. (Bradley and Dunne 1988a, 68-70) At the NE end a short section (L 4.5m; H 2.25m) extends into the lake 20m from the shore where the intact wall (L 56m; max. H 3.15m) extends to the first mural tower. The wall has an outer base-batter (H 0.8m) and a levelling course (H 1.65-2.1m) but no evidence of a wall-walk (max. int. H 2.8m). The first tower is rectangular (int. dims 3m x 3m) projecting NW from the town wall which forms its SE side and has a base-batter and some surviving quoins. The ground floor is featureless, but at the first floor the SE side is open and the floor was supported on joists set in the NE and SW walls. This floor has lights in each of the three walls. The town wall continues (L 80m; ext. H 0.9-2.9m) to the second mural tower with an external base-batter (H 0.75m) and a levelling course (H 1.4m), but this section of wall is in poor condition. The rectangular tower (int. dims c. 3m x 3m) projects NW from the town wall which forms its SE side at its featureless ground floor, but at the first floor its SE side is open, the floor was supported on joists set in the NE and SW walls and there are lights in the three projecting walls. A rebate for a second floor survives at the top of the walls and there is an external base-batter and dressed quoins. The town wall continues (L 86m; H c. 3m) to the gatehouse with an external base-batter (H 1.2-1.7m), a levelling course (int. H 1-1.4m), and traces of a wall-walk (H 2.33-2.45m). The gatehouse is rectangular (ext. dims c. 7.5m NW-SE; c. 7m NE-SW) but is in very poor condition. A fragment of a portcullis niche survives on the SW pier, but the structure is otherwise featureless. The town wall continues (L 91m; ext. H 3.7-4m) to the third mural tower with some large gaps. It has an external base-batter and a levelling course, and evidnece of a wall-walk. The third rectangular tower (int. dims c. 3m NE-SW; c. 4.5m NW-SE) projects NW from the town wall, but it is open-backed at the ground floor which is featureless. The first floor was supported on joists set into the NE and SW walls and each wall has a light. There is a rebate for a second floor on the NW wall and joists were set into the NE and SW walls. The tower has a base-batter and quoins. The town wall continues (L 104m) to the SW shore, decreasing in height (H 2.2-1.15m) with many gaps, and it is continued by a drystone wall into the lake. Conservation work has been continuing on the town wall since 2009, and most of the wall has now been stabilised (Collins 2013). See the attached images of the gatehouse from N (003) and NW (007) and of the S mural tower from N (009) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 30 July 2015

• RO046-004005 Religious house - Fratres Cruciferi
  Description

  Situated c. 200m outside the town wall of Rindown. Possibly founded by King John and Philip de Angelo c. 1215 as the Church of St. John the Baptist at Tea-eon, as a house of Crutched Friars. References date positively from 1372 when the poet and historian Sean O Dubagain was buried here. It was suppressed and granted to Christopher Davers in 1569 and leased to George Goodman in 1588. In 1596 it was described as a church roofed in shingles, a cloister, and three decayed houses. A belfry is mentioned in 1605-06. (Bradley and Dunne 1988a, 76-7; Gwynne and Hadcock 1988, 215-6) Only the church oriented N-S, which may be the S transept of a larger church, survives almost complete as a rectangular building (int. dims 11.05m N-S; 5.9m E-W) with dressed quoins, those at the NW and NE angles with chamfers. The E wall is featureless, while the S wall has one robbed window in a round-headed embrasure and the W wall has two destroyed windows which have diagonal tooling on their dressed ingoings. The church was entered through a flat-arched opening (Wth 1.8m; H 2.2m) in the N wall. This was approached from the N by a passage through a later structure (RO046-004028-) (ext. dims 7.3m E-W; 4m N-S) to its N which may have been a tower. Only the base survives, but it has a mural stairs in the E wall. A post-Suppression phase of use is suggested for the church by the partial blocking of the S window over a robbed brick-lined window, but this would have been ended by the late 18th century when table tombs dating from 1779 were installed in the interior. The church was conserved in 2009 (Collins 2013, 28). Jus S of the church is a building (int. dims 8.3m plus E-W; 2.9m N-S) defined by masonry walls (max. H 0.7m) with good quoins which is truncated by the graveyard wall at W. This (RO046-004038-) could represent part of the cloistral surrounds, and a raised grass-covered and flat-topped but stony mound (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 7m; H 0.3-0.6m) extends eastwards from it (L c. 27m), with a gap (Wth at base 2.8m) just 4-6m E of the visible building. At its E end the mound turns NNE as a broad but still flat-topped stony mound (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 12m; H 0.1-0.4m). The cloister may have been contained between these structures and the church, although there is no evidence of a lean-to structure against the E wall of the church. The church is within a D-shaped graveyard (RO046-004029-) (dims 43m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, which partly fell in December 2010, revealing a stone head. This will be replaced on the outer face of the reconstructed wall. Within the graveyard is a 16th century graveslab (RO046-004037-) (dims 1.67m x 0.76m) with a raised roman inscription commemorating John Clysk who died in 1539 (Collins 2012, 3-4) and some architectural fragments (RO046-004030-) including part of a cloister arcade. The graveyard (RO046-004023-) is immediately to the NE and the walled garden (RO046-004026-) is c. 30m to the N, while the possible fish-pond (RO046-004039-) is c. 30m to the NW. (Bradley and Dunne 1988a, 76-7) See the attached views from the SE (001) and of the interior looking S (002) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December 2012 Amended: 29 April, 2015

• RO046-004023 Graveyard
  Description

  On the peninsula of Rindown, c. 160m outside the town wall (RO046-004004-). Possibly an early ecclesiastical site, although there is no evidence of a church (RO046-004036-). D-shaped graveyard (dims 59m NE-SW; 44m E-W) defined by stone walls. A fragment of a cross-slab (RO046-004024-) was recovered from the graveyard and there are fragments (RO046-004025-) of a cusped ogee-headed window at the location. The church of the crutched friars (RO046-004005-) is immediately to the SW, and the walled garden (RO046-004026-) is immediately to the NW. The two bronze bells (Bourke 1980) and the bronze crucifixion plaque from St John's, now in NMI, may be from this location (Harbison 1984). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO046-004024 Cross-slab
  Description

  On the peninsula of Rindoon, c. 160m outside the town wall (RO046-004004-). A fragment of a cross-slab (dims 0.34m x 0.26m; T 6cm) with part of a semi-circular terminal outlined by two sets of parallel lines was recovered from the graveyard (RO046-004023-). There are two letters of an inscription which might be 'an', and the stone is now kept safely at Maynooth College. (Bradley and Dunne 1988, Fig. 45). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 November, 2014 Amended: 4 May 2021

• RO046-004025 Architectural fragment
  Description

  On the peninsula of Rindown, c.160m outside the town wall (RO046-004004-). There are fragments of a cusped ogee-headed window at the graveyard (RO046-004023-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO046-004026 Walled garden
  Description

  On Rindown peninsula c. 200m outside the town wall of Rindown (RO046-004004-). This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 84m NE-SW; 50m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls (T 0.6-0.8m; max. H 2m) which are not complete on any side. There are three bee-bowls (RO046-004-027-) in the centre of the NW wall visible as pointed niches (Wth 0.45m; H 0.55m; D 0.3m). St John's church (RO046-004005-), with which it may have been associated, is c. 30m to the S and St John's graveyard (RO046-004023-) is immediately to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO046-004027 Bee-boles
  Description

  There are three bee-boles in the centre of the NW wall of the walled garden (RO046-004026-) visible as pointed niches (Wth 0.45m; H 0.55m; D 0.3m). (Collins 2016) See the attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO046-004028 Building
  Description

  The church of the Crutched Friars of St John's (RO046-004005-) was entered through a flat-arched opening (Wth 1.8m; H 2.2m) in the N wall. This was approached from the N by a passage through a structure (ext. dims 7.3m E-W; 4m N-S), which may have been a tower from the crossing of a larger church. Only the base survives, but it has a mural stairs rising in the E wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO046-004029 Graveyard
  Description

  The church of the Crutched Friars of St John's (RO046-004005-) is within a D-shaped graveyard (RO046-004029-) (dims 43m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, which partly fell in December 2010, revealing a stone head. This will be replaced on the outer face of the reconstructed wall (Collins 2013, 29). Within the graveyard is a 16th century graveslab (RO046-004037-) (dims 1.67m x 0.76m) with a raised roman inscription commemorating John Clysk who died in 1539 (Collins 2012, 3-4) and some architectural fragments (RO046-004030-) including part of a cloister arcade. (Bradley and Dunne 1988a, 76-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19th December, 2012. Amended: 30 July, 2013

• RO046-004030 Architectural fragment
  Description

  The D-shaped graveyard (RO046-004029-) at the site of the Crutched Friars of St John's (RO046-004005-) contains a 16th century graveslab (RO046-004037-) and architectural fragments including part of a cloister arcade. The majority of these fragments have been gathered together and positioned along the W wall of the graveyard just inside the entrance gateway. (Bradley and Dunne 1988a, 76-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 9 April 2015

• RO046-004036 Church
  Description

  On the peninsula of Rindown, c. 160m outside the town wall (RO046-004004-). Possibly an early ecclesiastical site, although there is no evidence of a church within the D-shaped graveyard (RO046-004023-) defined by stone walls. A fragment of a cross-slab (RO046-004024-) was recovered from the graveyard and there are fragments (RO046-004025-) of a cusped ogee-headed window at the location. The church of the crutched friars (RO046-004005-) is immediately to the SW, and the walled garden (RO046-004026-) is immediately to the NW. The two bronze bells (Bourke 1980) and the bronze crucifixion plaque from St John's, now in NMI, may be from this graveyard (Harbison 1984). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO046-004037 Graveslab
  Description

  The church of the Crutched Friars of St John's (RO046-004005-) is within a D-shaped graveyard (RO046-004029-) (dims 43m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. Within the graveyard is a graveslab (dims 1.67m x 0.76m) which was discovered in 2007 by Richard Collins (2012, 3-4) who thought it had a sixteenth century date. More recent work by the St John’s Heritage Group reveals that the inscription in false relief is in roman lettering and commemorates John Clusk who died in the early eighteenth century. Research work by the group reveals that John Clusk of Carrowphadeen signed a lease in 1725 and his widow Margaret is listed in the Elphin Diocesan Census of 1749. The inscription with its contractions reads: I WAS D / THIS MONUM ERECT BY / MARGAT CLVSK OVER Ye / BODY OF HER HVSBAND IO _ _ / CLVSK WHO DEPT THIS LI / FE IN _ 53 YEAR OF HIS AGE ON / _ _ DAY OF _ _ _ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 April 2011 Amended: 2 December 2020

• RO046-004038 Building
  Description

  Situated c. 200m outside the town wall of Rindown. Jus S of the church of the Crutched Friars (RO046-004005-) is a building (int. dims 8.3m plus E-W; 2.9m N-S) defined by masonry walls (max. H 0.7m) with good quoins which is truncated by the graveyard wall at W. This could represent part of the cloistral surrounds, and a raised grass-covered and flat-topped but stony mound (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 7m; H 0.3-0.6m) extends eastwards from it (L c. 27m) with a gap (Wth at base 2.8m) just 4-6m E of the visible building. At its E end the mound turns NNE as a broad but still flat-topped stony mound (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 12m; H 0.1-0.4m). The cloister may have been contained between these structures and the church, although there is no evidence of a lean-to structure against the E wall of the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29/04/2015

• RO046-004039 Fish-pond
  Description

  Located on a level landscape c. 200m outside the town wall of Rindoon and c. 30m NW of the church of the Crutched Friars (RO046-004005-). A rectangular sunken area (dims of top 42m plus NNE-SSW; 14m ENE-WSW; dims of base 36m NNE-SSW; 11m ENE-WSW) is defined by wide and slight scarps (H 0.6-0.8m generally, but only 0.2m on the W side). It has a rectangular form and is visible in pasture, but its S end runs under the boundary of the garden attached to St John’s House. It is visible as a feature on the OSI aerial images (1995). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 April, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rinnagan.

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 Rinnagan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Rinnagan · Rinn na gCeann

Area

3,301,939 m² (330.19 ha, 815.93 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johns, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Lecarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lecarrow electoral division: 333 people in 124 households; 93% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownamaddy, Carrownure Lower, Knockskehan, Warren

Placenames

Rinnagan 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.