Finnure

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnure, from 815 m² to 245,780 m² (24.58 ha, 60.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Finnure 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.

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the (extension) connection of two existing shop units, retain 2no. storage sheds & to retain 5no. silos

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2361036

• 24 Feb 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 228 sqm, Garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21222

• 22 Jun 2020Refused

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 228 sqm, Garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20777

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  for part demolition of the rear / south dwelling structure, plus alterations to existing dwelling floor plan and alterations to existing dwelling North, South, East & West elevations plus construction of new two storey and single storey dwelling extension to the south, demolition of two separate out buildings to the rear / South of the existing dwelling, construction of proposed new domestic garage / storage, treatment plant and percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 192.62 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 81.81 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 93.07 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 192018

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 241.50 sqm., + 49.29 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17277

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 Finnure.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (c. 37m NW-SE) with a straight N side (L 32m); on the 1933 edition it is cut at NNW and SSW by a N-S running field boundary. On inspection in April 1984 no visible surface trace survived. However, its outline is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. The siting and cartographic evidence suggest that this was a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2019

• GA098-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 45m) defined by a bank, which is breached by numerous gaps and is overgrown with conifer trees. Two small sheds abut the outer face of the enclosing element at NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

• GA098-103001 Kiln - lime
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA098-104 Graveyard
  Description

  In pastureland, in the SE corner of a large field. This graveyard, roughly trapezoidal shaped in plan (40m E-W; 39m N-S), is enclosed by a modern concrete wall. Access is via a gateway at E. A pathway lined with evergreen trees leads to an almost centrally located church (GA098-104001-). Inscribed headstones date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Numerous uninscribed grave-markers are also scattered about it and in some cases architectural fragments from the church have been reused to mark graves. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 February 2020

• GA098-104001 Church
  Description

  The following description is from https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30409808/finnure-church-finnure-co-galway last accessed 18 February 2020. Freestanding single-cell Roman Catholic church, built c.1600. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and with sculped cross finial to entrance gable. Rubble limestone walls, with inscribed plaque to west gable. Pointed arch window opening to east gable, having chamfered limestone surround and replacement fixed window. Pointed arch door opening with cut limestone surround and with corbels supporting the two arch stones, with timber battened door and limestone threshold. Corbelled ceiling and limestone-flagged floor to interior. Recent altar to east end. Inscribed memorial plaques and timber sculpture to interior. Set within graveyard. Double-leaf pedestrian gates to graveyard entrance, with rendered boundary walls. Double-leaf steel and cast-iron gates to site entrance to roadside, having rendered square-profile piers and quadrant walls. The simple construction of this once-ruinous church is enhanced by an appropriate recent renovation. Enhanced and contextualised by its graveyard setting, the memorial plaque to the interior indicates that this has long been a burial place for the O'Madden family of Hy-Many or Uí Maine. The carefully tooled but partly uncut doorway is indicative of its early date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 February 2020

• GA098-105 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Finnure Catholic Chapel, church/chapel, 1550–1650 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell Roman Catholic church, built c.1600. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and with sculped cross finial to entrance gable. Rubble limestone walls, with inscribed plaque to west gable. Pointed arch window opening to east gable, having chamfered limestone surround and replacement fixed window. Pointed arch door opening with cut limestone surround and with corbels supporting the two arch stones, with timber battened door and limestone threshold. Corbelled ceiling and limestone-flagged floor to interior. Recent altar to west end. Inscribed memorial plaques and timber sculpture to interior. Set within graveyard. Double-leaf pedestrian gates to graveyard entrance, with rendered boundary walls. Double-leaf steel and cast-iron gates to site entrance to roadside, having rendered square-profile piers and quadrant walls.

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 Finnure, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Finnure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Finnure · Fionnúir

Area

1,285,626 m² (128.56 ha, 317.69 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhogan, Castlenancy, Cooracurkia, Lisheenahevnia, Mullagh Beg

Placenames

Finnure 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.