Fintown

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fintown, from 62 m² to 489,728 m² (48.97 ha, 121.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Fintown 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.

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  REFURBISHMENT AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING ATTIC CONVERSION (PART THERE OF) TO EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661727

• 20 Jul 2026Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650100

• 3 Dec 2024Conditional

  EXCAVATED MATERIAL AND NEW ENTRANCE AND LANEWAY FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51704 REFERS) AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461981

• 13 Sept 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251534

• 11 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BOAT STORAGE SHED AND A SLIPWAY/RAMP TO LAKE WITH ON SITE CAR PARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250626

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLINGHOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151135

• 20 Jan 2021Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150060

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF A 2KM RECREATIONAL WALKING PATH FOR PUBLIC USE ON AN EXISTING COILLTE FORESTRY PLANTATION ON THE BANKS OF THE FINN RIVER, EAST OF FINTOWN. THE WALKWAY WILL INCORPORATE ALREADY EXISTING COILLTE FORESTRY ROADS AS WELL AS THE CREATION OF NEW WALKING PATHS IN A LOOP OF THE SITE. DEVELOPMENT OF A SMALL CAR PARK TO FACILITATE A MAXIMUM OF TEN CARS AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE SITE AND THIS CAR PARK WILL BE FENCED WITH WOODEN FENCING AND SECURED WITH A WOODEN GATE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051767

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951704

• 22 Nov 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851788

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Finn 001163

Recorded monuments

• DG066-001 Burial ground
  Description

  No burial markers indicate this area known locally as a graveyard. It is situated in a marshy, hummocky field covered with heather. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fintown, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Fintown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Fintown · Baile na Finne

Area

3,428,980 m² (342.9 ha, 847.32 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Fintown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

294 people lived in 105 households in the Fintown electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenaboghil, Loughnambraddan, Meenasrone North, Meenmore East, Meentymorgal

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Fintown 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.