Funshin More

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Funshin More, from 26 m² to 933,504 m² (93.35 ha, 230.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Funshin More 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.

• 18 Jul 2025Refused

  of an unauthorised structure under construction, including reconstruction and extension of an existing shed to be used as a house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 169 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560980

• 10 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services.Gross floor space of proposed works 203.10sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261134

• 14 Apr 2022Refused

  to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 161.5sqm, Garage: 45 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22501

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  to upgrade existing effluent treatment system which serves their dwelling house (planning ref. 97/1246 & 09/2314 refers) to include the installation of a new effluent treatment plant and polishing filter and all ancillary site works and the provision of a standard roadside parking space. Gross floor space of proposed works: 18.75 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212328

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  of revisions to established residential use on site, including; (1) Change of use of existing sub-standard dwelling (located to the south-west of the site) to accommodate a domestic garage/garden store (2) Retention of existing building to the east of the site (3) Proposed extension to rear of existing building to the east of the site, to accommodate a single replacement dwelling house on site, (4) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and construction of new sewage treatment system/percolation area and (5) All associated site works, landscaping and services.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211774

• 17 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works, House 173.7sqm, Garage 31.8sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211084

• 20 Jan 2021N/a

  for development consisting of revisions to established residential use on site, including; (1) Change of use of existing sub-standard dwelling (located to the south-west of the site) to accommodate a domestic garage/garden store (2) Retention of existing building to the east of the site (3) Proposed extension to rear of existing building to the east of the site, to accommodate a single replacement dwellinghouse on site. (4) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and construction of new sewage treatment system / percolation area and (5) All associated site works, landscaping and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 75.1 sqm (new extension), Gross floor space of work to be retained: 20.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2134

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted agricultural shed, cattle crush and rainwater harvesting facilities. Gross floor space of proposed works 198sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171832

• 17 Aug 2017N/a

  for the construction of a slatted agricultural shed, cattle crush and rainwater harvesting facilities (gross floor space 198sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171241

• 30 Mar 2017N/a

  for the construction of an agricultural shed, rainwater harvesting facilities, and cattle crush. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 224.67 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17407

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL006-165 Megalithic structure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in the saddle between Turlough Hill and Slievcarran with clear views of south Galway and northeast Clare. A long cairn crossing over the Clare/Galway border with most of it in Funshin More townland on the Galway side. An unusual long sinuous cairn (L c. 95m; Wth c. 6m) often comprising large slabs. The uphill or W end has been partly destroyed with stones removed to build nearby walls. At the E end the cairn turns sharply northwards and at the terminus there are some large boulders indicating a formal end to the structure at this point. Two-thirds along its length towards the E are the remains of what seems to be a megalithic chamber indicated by a number of slabs set on edge in the centre of the cairn. The chamber-like structure (c. 5m x 2m) is oriented along the long axis of the cairn. No passage or entrance was identified. (Bergh 2008, 28-9; Bergh et al. 2016) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• GA112-060 Megalithic structure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in the saddle between Turlough Hill and Slievcarran with clear views of south Galway and northeast Clare. A long cairn crossing over the Galway/Clare border with most of it in Funshin More townland on the Galway side. An unusual long sinuous cairn (L c. 95m; Wth c. 6m) often comprising large slabs. The uphill or W end has been partly destroyed with stones removed to build nearby walls. At the E end the cairn turns sharply northwards and at the terminus there are some large boulders indicating a formal end to the structure at this point. Two-thirds along its length towards the E are the remains of what seems to be a megalithic chamber indicated by a number of slabs set on edge in the centre of the cairn. The chamber-like structure (c. 5m x 2m) is oriented along the long axis of the cairn. No passage or entrance was identified (Bergh 2008, 28-9; Bergh et al. 2016, 22-3). For cross-reference in county Clare see CL006-165----. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Funshin More, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Funshin More · Fuinsinn Mhór

Area

3,376,109 m² (337.61 ha, 834.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kinvarradoorus, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kinvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,558 people lived in 552 households in the Kinvarra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghawinnaun (Co. Clare), Cartrontrellick, Funshin Beg, Oughtmama (Co. Clare), Slievecarran (Co. Clare)

Placenames

Funshin More 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.