Fintawan

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fintawan, from 67 m² to 145,735 m² (14.57 ha, 36.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Fintawan 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.

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the change of use of Residence to Commercial B & B with Spa to existing premises and the provision of a new entrance on the L3011 road at Fintawan

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660137

• 4 Mar 2026N/a

  for the change of use of Residence to Commercial B & B with Spa to existing premises and the provision of a new entrance on the L3011 road at Fintawan

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660094

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 Fintawan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fintawan.

Architectural heritage

• Billis Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch sandstone road bridge, built c.1800, over river flowing into Lough Ramor. Sandstone footings with random coursed abutments and ashlar cutwaters with domed caps. Segmental arches with cut stone arch rings of unequal voussoirs and random rubble stone soffit, central arch flanked by narrower arches. Random rubble stone spandrels and parapets with Scotch coping. Extensive wing walls to west with lower retaining sections and saddle coping of mortar, short wing walls to east curving with approach roads, integrated post box to north-east wing wall.

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 Fintawan, about 1 in 20 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 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 Fintawan.

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 Fintawan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Fintawan

Area

1,053,258 m² (105.33 ha, 260.27 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Lurgan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

624 people lived in 211 households in the Lurgan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billis, Drumgora, Drummallaght, Killyduff, Lattoon, Pollamalady

Placenames

Fintawan 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.