Finny

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finny, from 122 m² to 1,111,459 m² (111.15 ha, 274.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Finny 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 Finny 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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finny.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay double-height flat-roofed Catholic church, built 1921, on a rectangular plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east); bellcote-topped single-bay full-height breakfront (west). Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Bitumen felt-covered flat roof on arcaded corbel table with concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered monolithic pilasters to corners. Paired round-headed window openings in square-headed recesses with moulded rendered sills, and concealed dressings having stepped rebated reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having margined square glazing bars. Roundels ("clerestorey") with moulded rendered surrounds having stepped rebated reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins. Round-headed window opening (east), concealed dressings with hood moulding on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Round-headed window openings ("cheeks") with moulded rendered sills, and concealed dressings having stepped rebated reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having margined square glazing bars. Multifoil "Rose Window" (west) with moulded rendered surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior with stained glass "Rose Window" (west), central aisle between timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between paired frosted glass windows, and camber-headed chancel arch framing stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with quatrefoil-detailed cut-veined white marble Gothic-style altar below stained glass "East Window" (----). Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.

• Finny National School, school, 1880–1898 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey single-cell national school, dated 18--; extant 1898. Closed, 1972. In alternative use, 2002[?]. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having concrete capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with step threshold, and rendered surround with fittings now boarded up. Set in unkempt grounds on a slightly elevated site with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered capping.

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 Finny, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Finny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Finny · Fionnaithe

Area

1,157,368 m² (115.74 ha, 285.99 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Owenbrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

213 people lived in 97 households in the Owenbrin electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cummer, Drin (Co. Galway), Glenbeg West, Kilmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Finny 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.