Killyfinla
Killyfinla is a townland in the civil parish of Castlerahan, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan. Its name in Irish is Coillidh Fionnlacha.
Parcel 449045
- Area
- 14,276 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Killyfinla
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 93.6 ha
- 231 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 477 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killyfinla, from 8 m² to 140,454 m² (14.05 ha, 34.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 85 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Mar 2025Conditional
to complete houses 15 – 30 (16 No.) which consists of 8 No. Two Storey 3 Bed semi-detached dwellings & 8 No. Two Storey 2 Bed Semi-detached dwellings & Planning Permission also sought to retain and complete houses 31 & 32 which consist of 2 No. Two Storey 4 Bed Semi-detached dwellings currently at finished ground floor level. Works to include completion of service road, public footpath, street lighting & all associated walls and site services. (Planning permissions 18/279, 19/450 & 21/443 relates)
Permission, 18 homes · Cavan County Council, 2560113
14 Jul 2021Conditional
to install temporary on-site wastewater treatment unit to connect to existing foul sewer treatement and all associated works (previous approved reg:- 19/450 relates to this site)
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21443
19 Nov 2019Conditional
to carry out alterations to previous approved Planning Ref: 18/279. The alterations will include for the following (1) Alterations and change of house types. (2) increase unit numbers from 28 no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings to 32 no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings, broken down as follows, 4 no. 4 beds, 12 no. 3 beds & 16 no. 2 beds, connection to foul and surface water sewers, service road, street lighting and all associated works at development known as "Woodlands"
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19450
19 Sept 2019N/a
to carry out alterations to previous approved Planning Ref: 18/238. The alterations will include for the following (1) alterations and change of house types (2) increase units' numbers from 28 no. dwellings to 32 no. dwellings. broken down as follows, 4 no. 4 beds, 12 no. 3 beds & 16 no. 2 beds, connection to foul and surface water sewers, service road, street lighting and all associated works at development known as "Woodlands"
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19356
2 Jul 2018Conditional
to complete housing development known as 'Woodlands' Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan. The works to include the construction of 28 no. fully serviced two storey 4 bed semi-detached dwellings, connection to foul and surface water sewers, service road, street lighting and all associated works (previously planning reference 03/1864 relates to this site)
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18279
6 Jun 2018N/a
complete housing development known as "Woodlands", Ballyjamesduff, works to include the construction of 28 no. fully serviced two storey 4 bed semi-detached dwellings, connection to foul and surface water sewers, service road, street lighting and all associated works (previously planning reference 03/1864 relates to this site)
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18238
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 Killyfinla.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killyfinla.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killyfinla.
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 Killyfinla, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killyfinla.
- 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 Killyfinla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Killyfinla · Coillidh Fionnlacha
- Area
- 936,161 m² (93.62 ha, 231.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlerahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Ballyjamesduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,548 people lived in 1,187 households in the Ballyjamesduff electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carn, Cornahilt, Crosserule, Gallonnambraher, Kilmore, Lismeen
- Placenames
- Killyfinla 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.