Finnstown

More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland. The map cannot draw that many.

• R3SDZ (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Finnstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finnstown.

Architectural heritage

• Somerton House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, c.1820. uPVC casement windows. Central timber panelled door with flanking columns and segmental-arched fanlight. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Hipped slate roof with two rendered chimney stacks. Set of stone steps with iron handrail leading to entrance.

• Saint Helen's, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1830, with full-height canted bay to east side. Later timber sash windows. Timber casement windows to basement. Elaborate timber panelled door with richly detailed Doric doorcase and fanlight. Roughcast rendered walls. Hipped slate roof with brick chimney stacks. Set of stone steps leading to doorway with cast-iron handrail. Wrought-iron gates with ashlar gate piers.

• Airlie House, house, 1820–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1840, with large two-storey L-plan extension to rere. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Timber sash windows to front, timber and uPVC windows to sides and rere. Projecting central flat-roofed porch extension with further projecting semi-circular canopy on four simple Ionic columns. Timber panelled door with carved timber surround. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimney stacks. Large garage extension to north-east. Mid twentieth-century extension to west. Circular cut stone ornamental pond set within grounds and glass structure to rear housing swimming pool.

• Finnstown House, farmyard complex, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Range of single-storey outbuildings, c.1880, now disused. Stone rubble construction with segmental-arched doors throughout. Pitched artificial slate timber-framed roof.

• Finnstown House, country house, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement Victorian former country house, c.1865, now in use as a hotel. Timber sash windows in segmental-arched openings with moulded dressings, decorative keystone and bracketed stone sills. Two-storey central breakfront with projecting flat-roofed porch having parapet. Timber panelled door with fanlight and flanking windows, all with round-headed dressed arches with prominent keystones. Smooth rendered walls with raised quoins and moulded string and eaves courses. Three-sided two-storey projecting bay on north-west elevation with doorway leading to ornamental foot bridge over basement access. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimney stacks. Outbuildings to rere in form of limestone rubble tower and three-bay two-storey roughcast rendered gabled storage area. Multiple modern extensions.

• Finnstown House, gate lodge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1860, now in use as a private house. uPVC casement windows. Smooth rendered façade, almost completely covered in foliage. Small segmental-arched window with Y-tracery in the west wall. Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimney stack. Set inside entrance screen comprising rendered, ruled and lined square plan gate piers surmounted by eagles and flanking pedestrian gateways in roughcast rendered wall, all containing wrought-iron gates.

• Coolamber Lodge, gate lodge, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1845, on a T-plan, now in use as a private house. uPVC casement windows with moulded hoods. Glazed timber tongue and groove door. Smooth rendered walls. Hipped slate roof with smooth rendered chimney stacks and overhanging eaves supported by timber brackets. Set inside entrance screen comprising rendered, ruled and lined piers, low plinth walls, and cast-iron gates and railings.

• Coolamber House, house, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, c.1945. Angled wing to east. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. uPVC casement windows with smooth rendered surrounds and decorative keystones. Three-sided porch, with timber panelled door having fanlight and segmental-arched timber doorcase. Pitched slate roof with smooth rendered chimney stacks.

• Post box, 1940–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron pillar post box, c. 1960, with P&T logo to door.

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 Finnstown, 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_3004 (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.

No address of the register names Finnstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Finnstown · Baile Finn

Area

1,677,233 m² (167.72 ha, 414.45 acres)

Civil parish

Esker, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Lucan-St. Helens, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,805 people lived in 5,363 households in the Lucan-St. Helens electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Aderrig, Ballymakaily, Doddsborough, Esker South, Gollierstown, Tobermaclugg

Placenames

Finnstown 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.