Kilfintan

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfintan, from 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) to 198,478 m² (19.85 ha, 49.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Kilfintan 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.

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  to (1) construct a dormer type extension to the rear of an existing bungalow type dwelling house and internal and external alterations to the existing bungalow, (2) material change of use of existing garage to living accommodation to include internal and external alterations and (3) construction of attached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21218

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey extension to existing two storey type dwelling house which was previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL99/286 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18291

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 Kilfintan.

Recorded monuments

• LF016-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On wet low-lying ground, c. 25m to the W of a stream. This circular well (diam. c. 1.3m) is defined by a low, relatively modern wall. Adjacent to it is a modern, large, wooden cross. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF016-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On low-lying ground within a dense plantation of coniferous trees. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It did not prove possible to access this monument. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF016-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-SE rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 36.5m) enclosed from W-N-ENE by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-4.5m; H 0.5-0.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1.1m). A wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.5m) is evident from NW-NNW-N . Elsewhere it has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable at NE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

• LF016-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in wet, rushy pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled. However, the outline of its perimeter, marked by a low, poorly defined scarp (H 0.5-1m), is still identifiable delimiting a circular area (diam. c. 30m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Kilfintan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Kilfintan · Coill Fhiontain

Area

1,308,417 m² (130.84 ha, 323.32 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Coolamber, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolamber electoral division: 397 people in 131 households; 88% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballew (Co. Westmeath), Balloo, Chancery (Co. Westmeath), Kilfintan Lower or Crancam, Killasona, Lisryan, Queensland, Rossan

Placenames

Kilfintan 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.