Finaway

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finaway, from 337 m² to 193,633 m² (19.36 ha, 47.85 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 Finaway 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.

• 26 Jan 2024Conditional

  for rehabilitation and improvement of 1km stretch of the Finaway River at Finaway Derrylea Claddagh Keenagh and Kildorough. Works will include removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures, improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and an NIS has been submitted as part of this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2410

• 27 Oct 2022Conditional

  to A) Demolish/Decommission 2 No. existing storage sheds and ancillary structures, B) RETENTION of 1 No. Existing storage shed and ancillary structures and C) construct an extension to 1 No. existing pig house together with all ancillary structures, and all associated site works. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013, as amended

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22438

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct 1 no. agricultural process/storage shed (for agricultural purposes to include organic fertiliser separation but excluding the housing of livestock) together with all ancillary structures (incl. internal storage tanks), and all associated site works. This application relates to a development, which is/may be for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013, as amended. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21649

• 4 Oct 2019Conditional

  to retain alterations to floor plans, elevations & ancillary works of previously approved dwelling & garage (Pl. Ref. No. 16/407) & all associated works. Significant further information and revised plans have been received

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19379

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 the townland of Finaway.

Recorded monuments

• CV038-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 35m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse identifiable only at SE. From S-W and from N-E there are modern trenches at the external foot of the bank. An earlier description (OPW 1970) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

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

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 Finaway with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Finaway

Area

1,414,958 m² (141.5 ha, 349.64 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Kilnaleck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaleck electoral division: 1,216 people in 442 households; 69% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claddagh, Derrylea, Drumroragh, Keenagh, Kildorragh Glebe, Kilnacrott

Placenames

Finaway 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.