Finure

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finure, from 14 m² to 239,157 m² (23.92 ha, 59.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Finure 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.

• 29 May 2026Grant with conditions

  The development will consist of planning permission to demolish existing dilapidated single-storey dwelling and construct a replacement single-storey split-level dwelling, removal of existing mobile home and adjacent sheds, alterations to existing site entrance to form vehicular access from public road, installation of new domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1442

• 8 Apr 2025Refused

  Permission sought for the construction of a dwelling house (change of plan to that permitted under planning reference 23/5471) changes include first floor, roof profile and altered elevations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4628

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6261

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission is sought for the construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works, (change of plan to that permitted under planning ref 23/5471) Changes include first floor, roof profile and altered elevations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4765

• 13 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission for construction of first floor extension, construction of single-storey extensions to rear and side, elevational changes and internal alterations to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6272

• 18 Jul 2023Conditional

  Permission is sought for new dwelling house, entrance & proposed wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5471

• 27 Jun 2023Incompleted application

  Permission sought for new dwelling house, entrance and proposed wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5318

• 25 Jul 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to his dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5750

• 7 Apr 2022Withdrawn

  Permission sought for dwelling house, entrance and proposed wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4771

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  To construct a two-storey dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment unit, new entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5052

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  To construct a dormer dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, access to main roadway and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5016

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  To upgrade existing wastewater treatment system to existing dwelling to include the construction of a sand polishing filter to replace existing percolation area and for all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4877

• 24 Mar 2020Conditional

  Permission for (a) the retention of the demolition of original dwelling, (b) the reconstruction of the dwelling incorporating the original front facade and party walls, (c) the construction of a two storey extension to the rear, (d) the provision of a vehicular entrance, (e) the installation of a ‘Tricel Novo 6’ effluent treatment system and sand polishing filter and for associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4599

• 24 Mar 2020Incompleted application

  To upgrade existing wastewater treatment system to include the construction of a sand polishing filter to replace existing percolation area and for all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4600

• 10 Jan 2019Unconditional

  New boathouse/garage and all associated site works. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Ref: 14/4122

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/4021

• 1 Oct 2018Conditional

  The demolition of an existing double height detached agricultural shed and also a single storey semi-detached ruined storage shed and the construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with underground carpark and including a new single storey detached garage / storage shed, a new waste water treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6565

• 4 Sept 2018Incompleted application

  The demolition of an existing double height detached agricultural shed and also a single storey semi-detached ruined storage shed and the construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with underground carpark and including a new single storey detached garage/storage shed, a new waste water treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6331

• 11 Jul 2018Incompleted application

  The demolition of an existing double height detached agricultural shed and also a single storey semi detached ruined storage shed and the construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with underground carpark and including a new single storey detached garage/storage shed, a new waste water treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5825

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  Retain a structure used for composting garden waste as well as the associated concrete supporting and retaining structure underneath as constructed on their site

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/4638

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  1) Alterations and extensions including raising the roof level to provide first floor accommodation to an existing dwelling & 2) the installation of a new waste water treatment plant to replace an existing septic tank.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4327

• 22 Jan 2018Refused

  Dwellinghouse, entrance and proposed waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4036

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  Retention of an extension to cottage, partially 2 storey and partially single storey, and all associated site development works, as constructed on site. The application relates to a development permitted under Planning Permission No. 96/4544

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/6719

• 11 Aug 2014Unconditional

  Demolition of existing ruin of dwelling and construction of new storey and a half dwelling in revised location and wastewater treatment system, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 09/5173

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5705

• 21 Jul 2014Conditional

  Retention of single storey extension to front, side and rear of dwelling house, and retention of roof window to rear of dwellinghouse and utility and storage areas to side of dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5567

• 2 Jul 2014Incompleted application

  Retention of single storey extensions to front, side & rear of dwelling house, Retention of roof window at the rear of dwelling house and garage to the side of dwelling house

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5403

The 25 most recent of 54 applications.

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 Finure.

Recorded monuments

• CO100-007 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  Shown only on first edition map as rectangular area defined by dotted line and named 'Site of Old Building'. Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 429) refers to 'extensive ruins, supposed to have belonged to a religious establishment' in this field. It is not included in Gwynn and Hadcock's list of religious houses in Ireland (1988). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO100-034 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Coastal village overlooking Powerhead Bay, which retains several houses shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. All are 1-storey and many are or were thatched, mainly with hipped roofs. Fronts range from 3-5 bays with central doorway. According to local information there were three shops and two public houses in the past; one public house survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having single-bay flat-roofed half-glazed porch to front (south) elevation and multiple-bay single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear (north). Half-hipped thatch roof with rendered end chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to west elevation of porch with glazed timber framed door. Dry stone boundary wall to site.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having two-bay flat-roofed projecting extension to front (south) elevation. Hipped thatch roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with exposed rubble limestone wall to east elevation. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to extension with timber half-glazed door. Painted rubble limestone boundary wall with rendered coping to south.

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 Finure, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Finure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Finure · Fionnúir

Area

1,629,983 m² (163 ha, 402.78 acres)

Civil parish

Corkbeg, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Corkbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,810 people lived in 873 households in the Corkbeg electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhook, Ballyknock, Glanturkin

Placenames

Finure 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.