# Finnis, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Brinny, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork; in Irish Finnis. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,600,979 m² (260.1 ha, 642.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,932 m² (1.99 ha, 4.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 17 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Brinny, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/brinny.md - Barony: Kinalmeaky - Electoral division: Brinny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/8137 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42617 - Centre: latitude 51.780536, longitude -8.761865 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnis, from 196 m² to 429,982 m² (43 ha, 106.25 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2305899: 429,982 m² (43 ha, 106.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305899.md - Parcel 2305794: 263,966 m² (26.4 ha, 65.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305794.md - Parcel 2305902: 230,371 m² (23.04 ha, 56.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305902.md - Parcel 2180221: 228,239 m² (22.82 ha, 56.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180221.md - Parcel 2305800: 205,851 m² (20.59 ha, 50.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305800.md - Parcel 2305803: 146,981 m² (14.7 ha, 36.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305803.md - Parcel 2180222: 138,080 m² (13.81 ha, 34.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180222.md - Parcel 2180224: 110,927 m² (11.09 ha, 27.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180224.md - Parcel 4960272: 85,170 m² (8.52 ha, 21.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4960272.md - Parcel 2180226: 82,599 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180226.md - Parcel 2305802: 55,021 m² (5.5 ha, 13.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305802.md - Parcel 2305797: 46,043 m² (4.6 ha, 11.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305797.md - Parcel 2305796: 45,523 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305796.md - Parcel 5878726: 38,867 m² (3.89 ha, 9.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5878726.md - Parcel 2305798: 34,165 m² (3.42 ha, 8.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305798.md - Parcel 2305801: 5,699 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305801.md - Parcel 2305897: 5,189 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305897.md - Parcel 3656924: 4,541 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3656924.md - Parcel 2305795: 4,385 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305795.md - Parcel 3783807: 4,256 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3783807.md - Parcel 2305805: 4,063 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305805.md - Parcel 2305807: 3,915 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305807.md - Parcel 2180223: 2,740 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180223.md - Parcel 2305900: 2,537 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305900.md - Parcel 2180225: 2,191 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180225.md - Parcel 2305799: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305799.md - Parcel 2305901: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305901.md - Parcel 2305806: 1,248 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305806.md - Parcel 2305898: 1,181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305898.md - Parcel 2180220: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180220.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 17 applications, newest first. - 30 May 2022, Cork County Council 22/5234: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/5234 - 16 Aug 2017, Cork County Council 17/6111: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/6111 - 20 Jun 2017, Cork County Council 17/5547: Conditional. Permission. (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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/5547 - 23 Dec 2014, Cork County Council 14/6811: Conditional. Retention. Retention of a prefabricated garage on a concrete base. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/6811 - 10 Jul 2014, Cork County Council 14/5484: Conditional. Permission. Replacement of existing septic tank with treatment unit and percolation area. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/5484 - 27 Jun 2014, Cork County Council 14/5371: Incompleted application. Permission. Replacement of existing septic tank with treatment unit & percolation area. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/5371 - 30 May 2014, Cork County Council 14/5141: Incompleted application. Permission. Replacement of existing septic tank with treatment unit and percolation area. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/5141 - 19 Jun 2009, Cork County Council 09/6018: Conditional. Outline permission. 2 no. dwellinghouses each served by a septic tank and site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/6018 - 14 May 2009, Cork County Council 09/5575: Incompleted application. Outline permission. 2no. dwellings each served by septic tanks, site entrance & associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/5575 - 24 Sept 2007, Cork County Council 07/11167: Refused. Permission. Construction of shed to provide closed storage area for articulated lorry trailers and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/11167 - 3 Sept 2007, Cork County Council 07/10685: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of shed for storage of articulated lorry trailers and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10685 - 28 Jun 2007, Cork County Council 07/9087: Conditional. Permission. Construction of cattle shed over existing feeding passage with new underground slurry storage tank, new dirty water tank and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/9087 - 14 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/13303: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/13303 - 30 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/12824: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and detached garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/12824 - 6 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/11299: Incompleted application. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/11299 - 16 Sept 2005, Cork County Council 05/6721: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/6721 - 9 May 2003, Cork County Council 03/2223: Conditional. Permission. Extension to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/2223 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 Finnis. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finnis. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Finnis. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/cork/finnis.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/finnis.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/finnis.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Finnis with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castlenalact: https://everytownland.com/cork/castlenalact-41431.md - Curravordy: https://everytownland.com/cork/curravordy.md - Farranhavane: https://everytownland.com/cork/farranhavane.md - Gurteen: https://everytownland.com/cork/gurteen-43129.md - Mishells: https://everytownland.com/cork/mishells.md - Scartnamuck: https://everytownland.com/cork/scartnamuck.md - Shanacloyne: https://everytownland.com/cork/shanacloyne.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/cork/finnis - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/finnis