Clonfinane
Townland in the civil parish of Loughkeen, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Cluain Fionnáin
- Area
- 182.8 ha
- 452 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 24,620 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonfinane, from 13 m² to 377,079 m² (37.71 ha, 93.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Clonfinane 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
No planning application touches the townland of Clonfinane 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballyduff/Clonfinane Bog SAC 000641
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyduff/Clonfinane Bog 000641
Recorded monuments
- TN005-034 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Listed in the SMR (1992) as an enclosure possible and in the RMP (1998) as a tree ring possible. After field inspection, c.1995, this feature proved to be a landscape feature of probable nineteenth-century date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN005-040 Mass-rock
Description
Situated on a tree-covered bog island known locally as the Priest's Bush. The island is covered with birch, holly, rowan, whitethorn, elder and woodbine and measures 70m in diameter with a penal mass-rock located within the island (Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) 1998). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonfinane.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonfinane.
- 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
No address of the register names Clonfinane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Clonfinane · Cluain Fionnáin
- Area
- 1,827,911 m² (182.79 ha, 451.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Clohaskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clohaskin electoral division: 249 people in 89 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykinash, Clonraskin, Faddan Beg, Faddan More, Sharragh, Walshpark
- Placenames
- Clonfinane 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.