Finisk
Finisk is a townland in the civil parish of Clonpriest, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Fionnuisce.
Parcel 2307331
- Area
- 2,374 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 188 m².
- 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
- Finisk
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0609
14 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5529
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1598 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 104.4 ha
- 258 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finisk, from 14 m² to 349,725 m² (34.97 ha, 86.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Finisk 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
12 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0609
4 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for a) demolition of cubicle shed, b) decommissioning and infill of existing slatted tank on site of proposed development and relocation of existing meal bin, c) construction of an agricultural building to include a milking parlour and storage room, d) construction of a drafting area with handling facilities in place of existing milking parlour to be decommissioned, e) construction of livestock waiting yard and underground slatted soiled water storage tank, f) construction of an agricultural shed to include cubicle housing and associated underground slatted slurry storage tank, g)construction of a dungstead and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4572
16 Feb 2023Conditional
Construction of a stable complex, seepage tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4261
23 Nov 2021Conditional
a) Demolition of existing agricultural cubicle shed b) Demolition and decommissioning of existing open slurry storage tank c) Construction of 2 no. agricultural sheds to include cubicles, feeding area and underground slatted slurry storage tanks d) Construction of a straw bedded area, handling and drafting area and collecting yard with underground soiled water storage tank adjacent to existing milking parlour e) Construction of 2 no. silage pits and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7164
7 Oct 2021Incompleted application
a) Demolition of existing agricultural cubicle shed b) Demolition and decommissioning of existing open slurry storage tank c) Construction of 2 no. agricultural sheds to include cubicles, feeding area and underground slatted slurry storage tanks d) Construction of a straw bedded area, handling and drafting area and collecting yard with underground soiled water storage tank adjacent to existing milking parlour e) Construction of 2 no. silage pits and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6721
9 Aug 2021Conditional
Construction of a storey and half dwelling, new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6190
5 Mar 2021Conditional
To construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, recessed site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4557
8 Feb 2021Incompleted application
To construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, recessed site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4268
21 Oct 2020Conditional
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey dwelling with a detached garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new waste water treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6317
11 Dec 2018Incompleted application
Retention for indefinite period of 2 no. agricultural buildings.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7248
14 Sept 2018Incompleted application
Construct ground floor entrance doorway on north-eastern gable, reduce size of windows to front north-western elevation and provision of smooth plaster finish in lieu of corkstone finish to front north-western elevation, to a dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6447
13 Aug 2018Incompleted application
(i) Construct ground floor entrance doorway on north-eastern gable and (ii) reduce the size of windows to front northwestern elevation, of a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6130
13 May 2016Conditional
Permission to restore a quarry to agricultural land by placing on the site surplus construction materials i.e inert soil/rock, concrete and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5161
18 Feb 2014Conditional
Construction of a storey and a half dwelling, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4299
14 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5529
22 Aug 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6051
6 May 2003Withdrawn
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/2133
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 Finisk.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finisk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Finisk.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Finisk, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1598 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Finisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Finisk · Fionnuisce
- Area
- 1,043,794 m² (104.38 ha, 257.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonpriest, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Clonpriest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,234 people lived in 402 households in the Clonpriest electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymakeagh Beg, Ballymakeagh More, Burges Lower, Finisk, Gortnagark, Yellowford
- Placenames
- Finisk 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.