Fintra Beg
Fintra Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 162.5 ha
- 402 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 3,145 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fintra Beg, from 19 m² to 297,847 m² (29.78 ha, 73.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Fintra Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Aug 2026Conditional
to 1. Demolish existing rear sunroom. 2. Construct new single storey rear extension and front porch. 3. Replace existing Velux roof lights to the rear with 4 no new dormer windows. 4. Modifications to external elevations along with new external shower and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660506
1 Oct 2025Conditional
of the new entrance onto the public road, the creation of a hardcore area inside the entrance and all associated and ancillary site works
Retention, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 25311
3 Apr 2025Conditional
for development of a livestock slatted unit and manure pit with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 25101
3 Dec 2024N/a
to extend the existing garage and change its use to a recording studio with welfare facilities & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 24404
21 Jun 2024Conditional
to alter and extend existing dwelling house along with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 24206
20 Mar 2024Refused
to alter and extend existing dwelling house along with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2490
17 Jul 2023Refused
to build a new dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23404
16 May 2023N/a
to build a new dwellinghouse, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23284
10 Nov 2022Conditional
of attic conversion and minor elevational changes to the dwelling house and detached private shed; and planning PERMISSION to install a gable window to the first floor and 3 no roof lights along with all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 221024
13 Jan 2022Conditional
to RETAIN the existing house substructure as granted under P06/2930. For PERMISSION to complete the dwelling house as granted under P06/2930 and to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2213
17 Dec 2021Conditional
to demolish the existing disused chalet / agricultural building and construct a new dwelling house, site entrance, private garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211345
18 Oct 2021N/a
to RETAIN the existing house substructure as granted under P06/2930. For PERMISSION to complete the dwelling house as granted under P06/2930 and to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211097
1 Sept 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21919
15 Jul 2021N/a
to demolish the existing disused chalet / agricultural building and construct a new dwelling house, site entrance, private garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site and ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21749
21 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct a private storage shed along with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20497
6 Nov 2018Conditional
for development at this existing dormer dwelling house. The development will consist of an amendment and modification to an existing planning permission granted (Ref. No. 17/585) namely reduction in size of extension and change in treatment of new facades, change in roof profile and omission of roof terrace to the previously granted demolition of the existing rear conservatory and construction of new single storey extensions to the side and rear and a new lobby to the front
Permission · Clare County Council, 18890
31 Jul 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of the demolition of the existing rear conservatory and construction of new single storey extensions to the side and rear, and a new lobby to the front: with a new terrace above the new side extension
Permission · Clare County Council, 17585
20 Jul 2017Conditional
to RETAIN the changes to the design and location of the detached garage as granted under Planning Permission Ref No. P13-267. Also full PERMISSION to construct a rear extension to the existing dwelling, ancillary modification to elevations, install a new waste water treatment system including all ancillary services and site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17560
22 May 2017N/a
to RETAIN the changes to the design and location of the detached garage as granted under Grant of Planning Permission Ref P13/26 also PERMISSION is sought to construct a rear extension to the existing dwelling, ancillary modification to elevations, install a new waste water treatment system including all ancillary services and site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17384
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 Fintra Beg.
Recorded monuments
- CL030-001 Promontory fort - coastal
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.
- CL030-003 Earthwork
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.
- CL030-004 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL030-006 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.
- CL030-008 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.
- CL030-009 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL030-040 Burnt mound
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 Fintra Beg.
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 Fintra Beg, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fintra Beg.
- 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 Fintra Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Fintra Beg
- Area
- 1,625,155 m² (162.52 ha, 401.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfarboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 422 people lived in 160 households in the Ballyvaskin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drummin, Fintra More, Freaghcastle
- Placenames
- Fintra Beg 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.