Finter
Townland in the civil parish of Ballykean, barony of Geashill, Co. Offaly; in Irish Finntír
Parcel 269565
- Area
- 8,345 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 243 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Finter
Planning applications on this parcel
3 Jun 2020Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20206
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 249.9 ha
- 618 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 3,665 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finter, from 59 m² to 803,745 m² (80.37 ha, 198.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Finter 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Sept 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment tank with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560454
28 Sept 2025N/a
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment tank with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560448
14 Nov 2023N/a
THE ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORK
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23417
30 May 2023Conditional
(I) CALF SHED (II) ROOFLESS CUBICLE WITH SLATTED TANKS (III) SILAGE SLAB IS ALSO REQUIRED.PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT (I) MILKING PARLOUR INCORPORATING DAIRY, PLANT, STORAGE, MEAL BIN, RAIN WATER, MILK SILO, STORAGE TANK, HOLDING YARD WITH CRUSH/ DRAFTING YARD, UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK WITH FLOW CHANNEL AND HARDCORE AREA (II) ROOFLESS CUBICLES EXTENSION WITH SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Offaly County Council, 23242
16 Dec 2022Conditional
THE ERECTION OF A NEW MACHINERY / DRY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22645
22 Sept 2022Refused
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22492
22 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH, AND THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21583
3 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AERA NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21544
23 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21522
5 Jul 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21411
6 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21284
23 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21240
9 Apr 2021Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING HOUSE AND SHEDS, MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21191
26 Jan 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2126
3 Jul 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20267
3 Jun 2020Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20206
21 May 2020N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20185
3 Oct 2018Refused
PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED SHED FOR DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL USE, PLANNING PERMISSION TO REDUCE THE HEIGHT OF THE SHED AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE SHED
Retention · Offaly County Council, 18425
26 Sept 2018Conditional
construct an additional water storage reservoir and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18582
17 Nov 2017Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE HOUSE, UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17455
28 Apr 2017Conditional
NEW STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17149
4 Apr 2017N/a
A NEW STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Offaly County Council, 17117
20 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF ONE NUMBER TWO STOREY DWELLING, ONE NUMBER SINGLE STOREY GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING GROUPWATER SCHEME WATERMAIN, CREATION OF NEW ENTRANCE TO PUBLIC ROAD, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1715
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Finter.
Recorded monuments
- OF025-010 Linear earthwork
Description
Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 178/9) shows cropmark of linear features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Finter.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Finter.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Finter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Finter · Finntír
- Area
- 2,499,297 m² (249.93 ha, 617.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballykean, and its townlands
- Barony
- Geashill
- Electoral division
- Cappancur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappancur electoral division: 1,701 people in 573 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanrush, Ballylevin, Danganbeg, Killeenmore, Killeigh, Lockclose or Grange, Millbrook, Moneyquid (Co. Laois), Newtown, Raheenduff
- Placenames
- Finter 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.