# Kylefinchin, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamartery, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Caol Fuinseann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 821,272 m² (82.13 ha, 202.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,916 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilnamartery, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilnamartery.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Kilnamartery, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11486 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 43925 - Centre: latitude 51.89032, longitude -9.062006 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2140844: 449,527 m² (44.95 ha, 111.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2140844.md - Parcel 4828763: 235,787 m² (23.58 ha, 58.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828763.md - Parcel 2341838: 120,188 m² (12.02 ha, 29.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2341838.md - Parcel 3383705: 7,916 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3383705.md - Parcel 2341839: 5,134 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2341839.md - Parcel 2140843: 3,542 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2140843.md - Parcel 4828753: 2,189 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828753.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 3 May 2024, Cork County Council 24/4796: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4796 - 13 Jun 2018, Cork County Council 18/5540: Conditional. Permission. Construction of an agricultural slatted unit with cubicle housing and calving area which will be attached to existing slatted unit.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/5540 - 10 Feb 2016, Cork County Council 16/4241: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/4241 - 23 Dec 2015, Cork County Council 15/6999: Incompleted application. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/6999 - 20 Jun 2006, Cork County Council 06/8225: Conditional. Permission. Construction of milking complex, roofed holding yard area with slatted yank, milking parlour, dairy, chemical store, plant room and all associated ancillaries. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8225 - 14 Jun 2005, Cork County Council 05/4151: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/4151 - 17 May 2005, Cork County Council 05/3344: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/3344 - 5 Apr 2005, Cork County Council 05/2112: Conditional. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/2112 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 Kylefinchin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO070-072: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO070-072----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO070-073----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO070-074----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO070-075----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kylefinchin. ## 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 Kylefinchin, about 1 in 10 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 Kylefinchin. - 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/kylefinchin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/kylefinchin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/kylefinchin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kylefinchin 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) - Ballyvoge: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyvoge.md - Caherkereen: https://everytownland.com/cork/caherkereen.md - Dromreague: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromreague-42459.md - Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockroe-43894.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/kylefinchin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/kylefinchin