Finisklin

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finisklin, from 74 m² to 81,478 m² (8.15 ha, 20.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Finisklin 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.

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  provide single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling together with associated site works including upgrading the existing foul effluent disposal system

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17180

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annaghearly Lough 001402

Recorded monuments

• LE027-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of a NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Annaghearly, c. 120m to the NE. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 26m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) which is best preserved at NE (Wth 5-6m; H 0.35m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-097 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on top of a prominent drumlin. This is a grass, rush and scrub-covered and slightly domed circular area (diam. 25m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 2m at N to 4m at S; D below interior 0.6m generally to 0.8m at S) and an outer bank (at NNE: Wth 5m; ext. H 0.2m) which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge E-S. The monument is bisected by a NW-SE field bank. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1512 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Finisklin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Finisklin · Fionasclainn

Area

1,186,360 m² (118.64 ha, 293.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumsna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumsna electoral division: 740 people in 284 households; 87% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbradican, Annaghearly, Corlona, Effrinagh, Gowel, Kiltoghert

Placenames

Finisklin 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.