Funshin Beg

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Funshin Beg, from 856 m² to 298,481 m² (29.85 ha, 73.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Funshin Beg 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.

• 29 Dec 2017Conditional

  consisting of the demolition of an existing uninhabitable dwelling house that was previously granted permission to be demolished under planning reference 11/1513. Gross floor space of any demolition 120sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171884

• 13 Jul 2017Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, garage/shed, wastewater treatment system and associated site access and services. Gross floor space of proposed works house 102sqm, garage/shed 47sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171040

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• GA112-016 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland and rock outcrop. This subrectangular cashel (33.6m N-S; 30.5m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a drystone wall which is overlain by a field wall at W and on the N side. Field-clearance material has been piled against it at NE and S. There is a well-defined entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. Within the interior two possible house sites (GA112-016001- and GA112-016002-) abut the cashel wall at N and S. Two other structures abut the wall in SW quadrant, one is rectangular in plan (8.6m N-S; 4.5m E-W), the other square (5m N-S; 5m E-W). A number of internal divisions are also evident and traces of a possible limekiln are visible at SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

• GA112-016001 Hut site
  Description

  Within the N sector of the interior of a cashel (GA112-016----). This possible hut site (4m E-W), semicircular in plan, abuts the cashel wall at N. Another possible hut site (GA112-016002-) is evident at S; it also abuts the cashel wall. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

• GA112-016002 Hut site
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA112-016----). This possible hut site (2.7m E-W), semicircular in plan, abuts the cashel wall at S. Another similar hut site (GA112-016001-) is evident at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Funshin Beg, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Funshin Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Funshin Beg · Fuinsinn Bheag

Area

2,214,288 m² (221.43 ha, 547.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kinvarradoorus, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kinvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,558 people lived in 552 households in the Kinvarra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartrontrellick, Funshin More, Gortnaglogh, Moy, Slievecarran (Co. Clare), Trellick

Placenames

Funshin Beg 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.