Kylefinchin

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kylefinchin, from 2,189 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 449,527 m² (44.95 ha, 111.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kylefinchin 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.

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  Permission sought for the construction of agricultural development which includes 1) slatted house extension to existing agricultural building, 2) calf house extension to existing agricultural building, 3) covered silage slab and dung yard and isolation house, 4) detached slatted house building and 5) new agricultural farm laneway together with all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4796

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  Construction of an agricultural slatted unit with cubicle housing and calving area which will be attached to existing slatted unit.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5540

• 10 Feb 2016Conditional

  Agricultural development consisting of construction of new open cattle collection yard with feeding passage, extension to existing silage slab, walls and ramp, construction of drafting area together with discharge pipes to waste water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4241

• 23 Dec 2015Incompleted application

  Agricultural development consisting of construction of new open cattle collection yard with feeding passage, extension to existing silage slab, walls and ramp, construction of drafting area together with discharge pipes to waste water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6999

• 20 Jun 2006Conditional

  Construction of milking complex, roofed holding yard area with slatted yank, milking parlour, dairy, chemical store, plant room and all associated ancillaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8225

• 14 Jun 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4151

• 17 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3344

• 5 Apr 2005Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2112

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 Kylefinchin.

Recorded monuments

• CO070-072 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Stone (H 1.7m; 1.4m x 0.7m) is subrectangular in plan, roughly shaped and pointing to top; long axis E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO070-073 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Stone (H 1.2m; 0.7m x 0.9m) is subrectangular in plan, narrowing towards top; long axis N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO070-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, overlooking Toon River valley to SE. Circular area (47.6m N-S; 45.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2.25m) with external fosse (max. D 0.8m). Causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) to SE; stone facing at sides continues along inner bank face to N and S for 1m and 2m respectively. Fosse infilled in most parts but outline still visible. Undulation inside and concentric with bank survives SSE->NW. Off-centre to NE is rectangular feature (15m N-S; 12m E-W), open on E side, defined elsewhere by low bank with some upright stones as internal facing; gap at NW corner and on S side (Wth 2m). Murphy (1898, 11) records 'a very large fort with a double embankment encircling it'; field boundary encircling line of outer fosse on 1904 OS 6-inch map and surviving on 1938 OS 6-inch map from W->E appears to have incorporated remains of outer bank. Standing stone (CO070-075----) in same field to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO070-075 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, c. 75m to NE of ringfort (CO070-074----). Stone (H 1.55m; 1.75m x 0.75m) is rectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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

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

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 Kylefinchin, 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 Kylefinchin.

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

Name

Kylefinchin · Caol Fuinseann

Area

821,272 m² (82.13 ha, 202.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamartery, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Kilnamartery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

731 people lived in 249 households in the Kilnamartery electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvoge, Caherkereen, Dromreague, Knockroe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Kylefinchin 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.