# Finnaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killannin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Fionnán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 30,564,781 m² (3,056.48 ha, 7,552.72 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,050 m² (2.41 ha, 5.94 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killannin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killannin.md
- Barony: Moycullen
- Electoral division: Killannin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,108 people lived in 416 households in the Killannin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18717
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62024
- Centre: latitude 53.331087, longitude -9.375188 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnaun, from 1,690 m² to 25,977,926 m² (2,597.79 ha, 6,419.29 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2374881: 25,977,926 m² (2,597.79 ha, 6,419.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374881.md
- Parcel 2100272: 3,322,967 m² (332.3 ha, 821.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100272.md
- Parcel 2100266: 162,438 m² (16.24 ha, 40.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100266.md
- Parcel 2050939: 139,779 m² (13.98 ha, 34.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050939.md
- Parcel 2100269: 99,206 m² (9.92 ha, 24.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100269.md
- Parcel 2050932: 93,914 m² (9.39 ha, 23.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050932.md
- Parcel 2114615: 80,017 m² (8 ha, 19.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114615.md
- Parcel 2100268: 74,690 m² (7.47 ha, 18.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100268.md
- Parcel 2100263: 64,663 m² (6.47 ha, 15.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100263.md
- Parcel 2374880: 46,397 m² (4.64 ha, 11.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374880.md
- Parcel 2050937: 44,997 m² (4.5 ha, 11.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050937.md
- Parcel 2050936: 33,329 m² (3.33 ha, 8.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050936.md
- Parcel 6028384: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028384.md
- Parcel 6028411: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028411.md
- Parcel 6028390: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028390.md
- Parcel 6028380: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028380.md
- Parcel 6028400: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028400.md
- Parcel 6028395: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028395.md
- Parcel 6028399: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028399.md
- Parcel 4456116: 23,081 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456116.md
- Parcel 2050931: 16,414 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050931.md
- Parcel 2100261: 16,383 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100261.md
- Parcel 2050934: 13,724 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050934.md
- Parcel 2100259: 9,812 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100259.md
- Parcel 2100267: 9,757 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100267.md
- Parcel 2374619: 5,907 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374619.md
- Parcel 2100271: 5,513 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100271.md
- Parcel 2374616: 4,632 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374616.md
- Parcel 2100270: 4,476 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100270.md
- Parcel 2050929: 4,305 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050929.md
- Parcel 2374618: 3,914 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374618.md
- Parcel 2374617: 3,797 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374617.md
- Parcel 2100264: 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100264.md
- Parcel 2100262: 3,474 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100262.md
- Parcel 2050933: 3,379 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050933.md
- Parcel 2050935: 2,776 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050935.md
- Parcel 2100265: 2,054 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100265.md
- Parcel 2100260: 1,690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100260.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Finnaun 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 14 Aug 2025, Galway County Council 2561113: Conditional. Permission. for the felling of approx. 35.4 hectares of conifer plantation and drain blocking within an area of up to 39.1ha for the purposes of habitat enhancement and peatland restoration. Works will include i) Manual and mechanical felling of coniferous trees, ii) Drain blocking by installing dams in conifer forest drains to maintain, enhance and restore the favorable baseline hydrological and ecological conditions. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561113/0
- 14 Feb 2020, Galway County Council 20198: Unconditional. Extension of duration. for a 10 year permission to construct a wind farm consisting of 22 wind turbines, each with maximum hub height of 90m, maximum rotor diameter of 101m and with a total tip height of 140.5m, one permanent 90m meteorological mast, a sub-station including three control buildings and associated equipment, expansion of three existing borrow pits and two new borrow pits, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, expansion of drainage system, turbine hardstands, wastewater holding tank, underground cables and ancillary works (gross floor space 368.48sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20198/0
- 25 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191481: Conditional. Permission. for a 10 year permission for development at Derradda, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool, Letter, Finnaun. The development will consist of the following elements; A change to the dimensions of nine previously consented turbines (Galway County Council Planning Reference 10/303 and 11/429 and An Bord Pleanala Planning Reference PL07.239118) from a maximum hub height of 90m and rotor diameter of 101m with a maximum turbine tip height of 140.5m, to a maximum rotor diameter of 138m with a maximum turbine tip height of 156m; Adjust the locations of three turbines as follows: T9 moved 6m, T30 moved 16m & T40 moved 16m; Provision of 1.9km of new internal wind farm access roads, localised upgrades to existing access roads. Underground cable route connecting proposed turbines to the Knockranny substation at Letter, on or adjacent to existing wind farm roads. Three new borrow pits located adjacent to proposed T19, T20 and T31 for rock excavation and peat deposition; Extension of two existing / permitted borrow pit for the excavation of rock and the deposition of surplus peat material. All on a site of approximately 76.07ha. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and & Natura Impact Statement has been prepared and accompanies this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191481/0
- 18 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 181014: N/a. Permission. for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a 9 turbine wind farm development and associated infrastructure at Derradda, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool, Doon, Letter, and Finnaun. The development will consist of the following elements: A Change to the dimensions of nine previously consented turbines (Galway County Council Planning Ref. 10/303, 11/249 and An Bord Pleanála Planning Reference PL07.239118) from a maximum hub height of 90m and rotor diameter of 101m with a total turbine tip height of 140.5m to a maximum hub height of 99m and a maximum rotor diameter of 136m with a maximum turbine tip height of 156m; adjust the locations of three turbines as follows; T9 moved 6m, T30 moved 16m & T40 moved 16m; Provision of 1.9km of new internal wind farm access roads, localized upgrades to existing access road and all underground cabling and associated infrastructure. Three new borrow pits located adjacent to proposed T19, T20 and T31 for rock excavation and peat deposition; Extension of an existing/permitted borrow pit for the excavation of rock and the deposition of surplus peat material. An Environmental Impact Statement & Natura Impact statement has been prepared and accompanies this application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181014/0
- 26 Apr 2017, Galway County Council 17577: Conditional. Permission. for modifications to Cloosh 110kv Sub-station (previously granted under Planning Ref. 10/303). The site is located within the townland of Finnaun, Co. Galway. The development will consist of the modification to the layout of the substation, modifications to the building design, reduction in the number of buildings on site and modifications to associated infrastructure. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 326.064 sqm.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17577/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034
- Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA, site code 004181, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004181
- Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA, site code 002431, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/002431
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finnaun.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Finnaun, about 1 in 20 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 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 Finnaun.
- 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/galway/finnaun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/finnaun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/finnaun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Finnaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardderroo: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardderroo.md
- Boliska Oughter: https://everytownland.com/galway/boliska-oughter.md
- Bovroughaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/bovroughaun.md
- Cloghernagun: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloghernagun.md
- Letter: https://everytownland.com/galway/letter.md
- Letterfir: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterfir.md
- Seecon: https://everytownland.com/galway/seecon.md
- Shannapheasteen: https://everytownland.com/galway/shannapheasteen.md
- Uggool: https://everytownland.com/galway/uggool-64178.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.

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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.

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