Fincarn

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fincarn, from 1,664 m² to 88,188 m² (8.82 ha, 21.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Fincarn 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 2025Conditional

  permission for development which will consist of a new two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together, with all ancillary site development works, Significant Further Information relates to submitted revised site description newspaper advert & Site Notice

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560352

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission for development consisting of to construct 3 No. poultry houses and 1 No. ancillary general purpose shed/store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works (to include new/relocated site entrance) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this planning application.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 259005

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission for development consisting of construction of a single storey detached domestic garage on a site previously granted planning permission for a dwellinghouse, planning ref. no. 22/477 and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360024

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system, site entrance on to existing public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22477

• 7 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to consist of (1) proposed two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance/exit onto public road, entrance piers & gates and consists of (2) Retention of existing mobile home currently located on site which it is proposed will be kept on site for a temporary period of maximum of 5 years until construction of the proposed dwelling house is completed together with all ancillary site development works. Significant Further information relates to provide a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area at a revised location to service the existing adjacent dwelling house and to replace the existing septic tank and percolation area currently servicing the dwelling house and mobile home. The existing septic tank and percolation are located within the site area to be decommissioned after the 5 years temporary period expires or when the proposed dwelling is occupied whichever is lesser

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21174

• 11 Jan 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of to roof over existing concrete walled silo & open concrete yard to form new dry storage agricultural and machinery sheds and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 215

• 6 Sept 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank attached to rear of existing sheds and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17428

• 15 Jun 2017Conditional

  permission for retention and alterations to previous planning ref 15/348 namely extension of silage pit plus apron concrete walls with all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17288

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 Fincarn.

Recorded monuments

• MO025-023 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Located at the summit of Fincairn Hill, a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is traditionally thought to be the burial place of Fin Mac Cool (IFC Schools’ MSS (931) 183-8: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes ). It consists of a kerb of orthostats enclosing a grass-covered stony rise (diam. c. 20m; H c. 1m). The contiguous kerbstones (max. dims c. 1m x c. 0.5m; H 0.1-0.7m) survive on the N side of an ENE-WSW field bank but five displaced stones are on the S side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Fincarn.

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 Fincarn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Fincarn · Fionncharn

Area

925,671 m² (92.57 ha, 228.74 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Broomfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broomfield electoral division: 831 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agheeshal, Aghnafarcan, Corrateean, Corravoo, Corrinary, Drumavaddy, Kednagullion, Lackafin, Lisagore

Placenames

Fincarn 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.