Rinn

Area

99 m²

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

M1 MIX – mixed uses (Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030) The objective

Townland

Rinn

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.

• SL020-203001 Church
  Description

  In the centre of a former lumber yard surrounded by recent walls and structures; at the W end of a small graveyard, between two 19th-century warehouses. A ruined rectangular structure (16m E-W; 6m N-S) built of uncoursed limestone blocks. The N and S walls are very poorly preserved and the SW corner is missing. A window embrasure, in the centre of the E wall, survives as a rough opening (Wth c. 1.5m); a drawing by Wakeman (O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 344) shows it with a double-ogee light missing its mullion. This window indicates a 15th/16th-century date for the church, which was, according to tradition, built by the O'Haras (O'Rorke 1878, 102-4). It was converted to Protestant use 'soon after the Reformation' but finally abandoned early in the 18th century (ibid.). There are a number of 18th- and 19th-century grave-memorials in the interior, some of which are listed by O'Rorke (1878, 102-4). There is no known historical record of a monastic foundation here (see Gwynn and Hadcock 1970). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-203002 Graveyard
  Description

  A rectangular graveyard (23m E-W; 12m N-S), no longer used and much covered by overgrowth. The ruin of a late medieval church (SL020-203001-), situated at its W end, takes up most of the space between two warehouses. The interior of the church and graveyard have thirteen memorials 'for some of the leading families of Tirerrill' (O'Rorke 1878, 103). The tomb dated 1707, which O'Rorke (ibid.) noted as the oldest, is no longer evident (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). An archaeological assessment, carried out in the early 1990s, revealed 'a massive degree of ground disturbance' in the area, but three skeletons and a possible fosse were discovered in small trenches to the SE and NE of the graveyard respectively (Simpson 1994). These suggest a possible early medieval date for the site though there is no documentary evidence for such a foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970). Archaeological monitoring of the site in 2000, prior to development, confirmed that human remains were buried outside the graveyard wall to the E (Halpin 2001, 300-301). According to local information, other human remains were uncovered during the course of the site's development (ibid.). The undisturbed ground (dims. 8m x 5m) to the E did not reveal any further human remains while further E the ground was disturbed and it appears likely that the construction of the basement of Abbey House may account for the ditch or boundary uncovered in the 1994 assessment (ibid., 301). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-204 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Mill'. On the E bank of the Owenmore river, on the N side of Collooney. Most of the mill complex is demolished though the remains of wheel-pits and arched headraces and tailraces are evident. Some ancillary late 19th-century mill buildings remain, the main blocks are around and attached to a church and graveyard (SL020-203001- and SL020-203002-) on the E side of the cleared yard. The ruins of late 18th-century buildings on the river front and to one side of the lumber yard were noted during a previous inspection in 1992 (SMR (1989) file). A substantial bleach mill complex still stands on the opposite bank of the river (see SL020-272----). According to local information, both mills were owned by the Sims family. Valuation Office Mill Books recorded Alex Sims as the miller of a flour mill in Collooney, powered by a waterwheel (diam. 36ft [10.97m]; breath 8ft [2.43m]), which turned six pairs of stones (Hogg 1998, 108). According to Wood-Martin (1882, 240), Collooney mills 'occupy the site of a much older concern'. This mill is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• SL020-236 Bridge
  Description

  A bridge is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map on or close to the location of the present bridge over the Owenmore River at the N edge of Collooney. No visible remains of this bridge are now evident. The present road bridge (on a N-S axis; Wth 3.2m) is of eight semicircular arches (span c. 4.4m) with roughly shaped voussoirs. Tall thin piers (Wth c. 1.35m) with tall pointed cutwaters rise to the base of a modern parapet. The core of the bridge is of random rubble limestone. The bridge is extended 3.55m on the downstream (E) side and the extension has similarly shaped stone arches with dressed voussoirs and pointed cutwaters. The arches are heavily underpinned with a thick layer of concrete. The bridge has been extended further in recent times. According to O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 556), Collooney bridge dates to about 1400 but it is not the structure that now exists in this place. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-272 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  On the W bank of the Owenmore River and immediately W of Collooney. A mill is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map on the W bank of the river and next to 'a fall' and on the opposite side of the river to a church (SL020-203001-). There is a substantial bleach mill complex still standing on or near this site. This is probably the mill which according to McGarry (1980, 38) was built in 1797 by a Mr Jackson and was later sold to Alexander Sim who built a flour and corn mill on the opposite bank of the river. Most of the flour and corn mill has been demolished though the remains of wheel-pits and arched head and tailraces are evident. Two mills, one each side of the river, are marked here on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, a third, in Bleachgreen, lies c. 200m to N and is set back from the river. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1070 (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.

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