Foynes Island

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foynes Island, from 225 m² to 605,355 m² (60.54 ha, 149.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 1 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 Foynes Island 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Foynes Island in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077

Recorded monuments

• LI010-001 Battery
  Description

  According to Kerrigan (1995, 204-214) this battery was under construction between 1794 and 1795. He describes it as 'an earthwork battery for six 24-pounders, which would have been capable of commanding the full width of the river, which is a mile wide from Battery Point across to the Co. Clare shore to the north-west.' The area of this battery is now covered by dense vegetation overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 2 August 2012

• LI010-109 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on a W-facing slope. According to the landowner a scatter of burnt material was revealed when the furrows for the plantation were made. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-110001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on a SW-facing slope. A kidney-shaped mound (8.5m x 9.6m; H 0.7m) of burnt material, with its opening (Wth 2.5m) facing WNW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-110002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on a SW-facing slope. According to the landowner a spread of burnt material was uncovered when the area was being prepared for planting. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-111 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on a SW-facing slope. According to the landowner a spread of burnt material (c. 15m x c. 30m) was revealed when the area was prepared for planting. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-112001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on a N-facing slope. According to the landowner a spread of burnt material (c. 15m x c. 10m) was revealed when the area was prepared for planting. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-112002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on a N-facing slope. According to the landowner a spread (c. 15m x c. 10m) of burnt material was revealed when the area was prepared for planting. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Foynes Island, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_406 (ZIP).

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 Foynes Island with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Foynes Island · Oileán Fainge

Area

1,217,376 m² (121.74 ha, 300.82 acres)

Civil parish

Robertstown, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Shanagolden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

922 people lived in 370 households in the Shanagolden electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Placenames

Foynes Island 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.