# Finaway, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Crosserlough, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,414,958 m² (141.5 ha, 349.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,107 m² (2.71 ha, 6.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Crosserlough, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/crosserlough.md - Barony: Castlerahan - Electoral division: Kilnaleck, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5162 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21105 - Centre: latitude 53.845219, longitude -7.238736 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finaway, from 337 m² to 193,633 m² (19.36 ha, 47.85 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 434896: 193,633 m² (19.36 ha, 47.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434896.md - Parcel 477368: 129,871 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477368.md - Parcel 477367: 113,302 m² (11.33 ha, 28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477367.md - Parcel 487953: 96,620 m² (9.66 ha, 23.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487953.md - Parcel 488033: 78,820 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488033.md - Parcel 477646: 74,003 m² (7.4 ha, 18.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477646.md - Parcel 488030: 71,649 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488030.md - Parcel 438859: 70,121 m² (7.01 ha, 17.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438859.md - Parcel 441312: 58,814 m² (5.88 ha, 14.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/441312.md - Parcel 488181: 49,939 m² (4.99 ha, 12.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488181.md - Parcel 477366: 48,673 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477366.md - Parcel 488032: 46,628 m² (4.66 ha, 11.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488032.md - Parcel 477650: 44,075 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477650.md - Parcel 3386531: 41,354 m² (4.14 ha, 10.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3386531.md - Parcel 476311: 40,529 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476311.md - Parcel 477635: 30,999 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477635.md - Parcel 487952: 30,746 m² (3.07 ha, 7.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487952.md - Parcel 486711: 30,505 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486711.md - Parcel 3410350: 28,811 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3410350.md - Parcel 450575: 25,403 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450575.md - Parcel 5471012: 24,365 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5471012.md - Parcel 477636: 16,504 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477636.md - Parcel 487954: 10,198 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487954.md - Parcel 454744: 7,463 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/454744.md - Parcel 477649: 6,013 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477649.md - Parcel 436985: 5,942 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436985.md - Parcel 438566: 5,106 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438566.md - Parcel 473944: 4,574 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473944.md - Parcel 481012: 3,974 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481012.md - Parcel 458029: 3,745 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/458029.md - Parcel 3193927: 3,260 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3193927.md - Parcel 3338582: 2,960 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3338582.md - Parcel 484280: 2,946 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/484280.md - Parcel 457439: 1,900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/457439.md - Parcel 485396: 1,669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/485396.md - Parcel 459102: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/459102.md - Parcel 5445739: 1,480 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445739.md - Parcel 450862: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/450862.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 26 Jan 2024, Cavan County Council 2410: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2410/0 - 27 Oct 2022, Cavan County Council 22438: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22438/0 - 26 Oct 2021, Cavan County Council 21649: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21649/0 - 4 Oct 2019, Cavan County Council 19379: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19379/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Finaway. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV038-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-025----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Finaway. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/finaway.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/finaway.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/finaway.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Finaway with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Claddagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/claddagh.md - Derrylea: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derrylea.md - Drumroragh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumroragh.md - Keenagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/keenagh-21242.md - Kildorragh Glebe: https://everytownland.com/cavan/kildorragh-glebe.md - Kilnacrott: https://everytownland.com/cavan/kilnacrott.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/finaway - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/finaway