Finnor
Townland in the civil parish of Killummod, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 149 ha
- 368 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 6,569 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnor, from 195 m² to 290,291 m² (29.03 ha, 71.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Finnor 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for development consisting of: (a) Rebuild a Larger Rear Extension (b) Increase of walls for 1.5 story dwelling, roof height. (c) Construct new entrance piers, roadside drainage. (d) Decommissioning of old septic tank and Installation of a new Waste Water Treatment system. And tertiary treatment pod to EPA code of practice 2021 EN1256-33 (e) Construction of new domestic garage with office room, and connection of new works to existing water mains at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460440
22 Aug 2018N/a
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence and wastewater treatment unit with percolation area, together with all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18418
22 Aug 2018Conditional
Planning permission to construct a new forest access road entrance at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18421
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 Finnor.
Recorded monuments
- RO010-095001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the gentle S-facing slope of an ENE-WSW drumlin ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 20m NW-SE; 15.5m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.3-1m) SE-W but the perimeter is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW where there is a farmyard and by a NW-SE field bank at SE. Souterrain (RO010-095002-) is inside the perimeter at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO010-095002 Souterrain
Description
Inside the perimeter of rath (RO010-095001-) at S. This is a rectangular drystone-lined depression (dims 3.7m N-S; 1.5m E-W; D 0.4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO010-122 Crannog
Description
In Canbo Lough (dims. c. 1.3km E-W; c. 100-300m N-S) c. 60m from the S shore. Circular dump of stones (diam. c. 25m) now underwater and covered with reeds, but known locally as a crannog. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-091 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise overlooking the W-E Killukin River, c. 130m to the N. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a gapped and grass-covered stone spread (Wth 0.9m at N to 2.6m at W; int. H 0.1m at S to 0.95m at W; ext. H 0.1-0.2m), with a drystone wall built on top of a scarp (H 1.5-1.7m) N-E-SW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-092001-) is c. 120m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-092001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a terrace overlooking the S bank of the W-E Killukin River, c. 30m to the N. Oval grass-covered area (dims 40.5m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.64m at E to 5.65m at S; int. H 0.4m at E to 1.1m at S; ext. H 1.1m at E to 1.45m at S) NNE-E-SSW and a scarp (H 0.8-0.9m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.5-1.8m; D 0.05-0.4m) SW-N-SE. The stone-revetted entrance (Wth 2.75m) is at SE. Cashel (RO011-091----) is c. 120m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-092002 Mound
Description
A very small mound SW of the centre (Gannon 1972) at rath (RO011-092001-), of which there is no evidence now, was described as a house site, which it is not. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Finnor.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Finnor.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Finnor, Croghan7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Finnor
- Area
- 1,490,149 m² (149.01 ha, 368.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killummod, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Killummod, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killummod electoral division: 129 people in 54 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Finnor 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.