Finnis

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnis, from 196 m² to 429,982 m² (43 ha, 106.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Finnis 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.

• 30 May 2022Conditional

  2km of grid connection infrastructure on the public road and agricultural land to connect the approved Finnis Solar Farm (Planning reference 17/6111) to the existing Bandon Substation and to connect two parcels of land within the consented development comprising the laying of underground electricity cables, associated infrastructure and horizontal directional drilling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5234

• 16 Aug 2017Conditional

  A ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farm within a site area of approximately 40 hectares consisting of solar photovoltaic panels covering an area of up to 75,100sq.m on ground mounted steel frames, 1 no. on-site substation with 2 possible locations, option 1 identifies the substation location within the townland of Finnis and option 2 identifies the substation location within the townland of Mishells, up to 8 no. inverter/transformer stations, underground cables and ducts, boundary security fence, new internal tracks, CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works located within the townlands of Finnis and Mishells.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6111

• 20 Jun 2017Conditional

  (i) Retention of existing concrete hard-standing area incorporating a work pit (ii) construction of detached single-storey shed for the storage of vintage vehicles and (iii) associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5547

• 23 Dec 2014Conditional

  Retention of a prefabricated garage on a concrete base

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/6811

• 10 Jul 2014Conditional

  Replacement of existing septic tank with treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5484

• 27 Jun 2014Incompleted application

  Replacement of existing septic tank with treatment unit & percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5371

• 30 May 2014Incompleted application

  Replacement of existing septic tank with treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5141

• 19 Jun 2009Conditional

  2 no. dwellinghouses each served by a septic tank and site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/6018

• 14 May 2009Incompleted application

  2no. dwellings each served by septic tanks, site entrance & associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/5575

• 24 Sept 2007Refused

  Construction of shed to provide closed storage area for articulated lorry trailers and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11167

• 3 Sept 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of shed for storage of articulated lorry trailers and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10685

• 28 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of cattle shed over existing feeding passage with new underground slurry storage tank, new dirty water tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9087

• 14 Dec 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/13303

• 30 Nov 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12824

• 6 Oct 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11299

• 16 Sept 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/6721

• 9 May 2003Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2223

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 Finnis.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finnis.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Finnis, about 1 in 5 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 Finnis.

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.

No address of the register names Finnis with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Finnis · Finnis

Area

2,600,979 m² (260.1 ha, 642.72 acres)

Civil parish

Brinny, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalmeaky

Electoral division

Brinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

666 people lived in 232 households in the Brinny electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlenalact, Curravordy, Farranhavane, Gurteen, Mishells, Scartnamuck, Shanacloyne

Placenames

Finnis 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.