Faunin

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faunin, from 135 m² to 86,860 m² (8.69 ha, 21.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Faunin 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.

• 7 Nov 2019Conditional

  of extensions and alterations to the existing dwelling house previously granted under planning reference 17/388.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191736

• 23 Mar 2017Conditional

  for (1) extensions and alterations to the existing dwelling house and (2) upgrade existing septic tank to EPA standards. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 104.2 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17388

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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

• GA122-081 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In flat farmland in an area of outcropping rock. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) which was clipped by a NNE-SSW running road at SE. Apart from a short length of drystone walling (L 12; Wth 1.84m; H 0.25m) at NE, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_687 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Faunin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Faunin · Fánainn

Area

367,979 m² (36.8 ha, 90.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Killinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanapisha North, Cappanapisha South, Cappavarna, Garryland, Killomoran, Lisnagyreeny

Placenames

Faunin 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.