# Farnham, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan; in Irish Fearnán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,732,302 m² (173.23 ha, 428.06 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 242 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Urney, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/urney.md - Barony: Loughtee Upper - Electoral division: Cavan Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 8,747 people lived in 2,931 households in the Cavan Rural electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4638 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21088 - Centre: latitude 54.008625, longitude -7.39775 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnham, from 63 m² to 144,367 m² (14.44 ha, 35.67 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 435176: 144,367 m² (14.44 ha, 35.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435176.md - Parcel 443522: 64,636 m² (6.46 ha, 15.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443522.md - Parcel 473131: 37,075 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473131.md - Parcel 3092704: 5,608 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3092704.md - Parcel 5914175: 343 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5914175.md - Parcel 5858829: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5858829.md - Parcel 5211401: 297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211401.md - Parcel 5859150: 293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5859150.md - Parcel 5858888: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5858888.md - Parcel 5859107: 275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5859107.md - Parcel 5211347: 260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211347.md - Parcel 5211480: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211480.md - Parcel 5791364: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791364.md - Parcel 5211395: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211395.md - Parcel 5800086: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5800086.md - Parcel 5211426: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211426.md - Parcel 5211429: 233 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211429.md - Parcel 5211545: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211545.md - Parcel 5211434: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211434.md - Parcel 5211504: 221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211504.md - Parcel 5211532: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211532.md - Parcel 5211499: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211499.md - Parcel 5299876: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5299876.md - Parcel 5305900: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5305900.md - Parcel 5914069: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5914069.md - Parcel 5795608: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5795608.md - Parcel 5931156: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5931156.md - Parcel 5211566: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211566.md - Parcel 5211563: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211563.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Farnham in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 29 May 2023, Cavan County Council 2360037: Conditional. Permission. for Modifications to the spa upgrade previously approved under planning permission register no. 19/522. The modifications include the following: • An increase in the number of pod cabins from 6 to 9 • Modifications to the pod cabin sizes, layouts and materials. • The addition of a covered outdoor relaxation area • The addition of a relaxation barn • Modifications to site, thermal village layout, site works, services and landscaping throughout The proposed modifications result in a total uplift of 332sqm in area to the previously approved scheme. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360037/0 - 25 May 2023, Cavan County Council 2360034: N/a. Permission. for modifications to the spa upgrade previously approved under planning permission register no. 19/522. The modifications include the following: • An increase in the number of pod cabins from 6 to 9 • Modifications to the pod cabin sizes, layouts and materials. • The addition of a covered outdoor relaxation area • The addition of a relaxation barn • Modifications to site, thermal village layout, site works, services and landscaping throughout The proposed modifications result in a total uplift of 332sqm in area to the previously approved scheme. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360034/0 - 9 Mar 2023, Cavan County Council 2394: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a new single storey biomass boiler facility located in the vicinity of the existing staff car park, comprising a boiler house (38sqm) and associated fuel store (27sqm) on a hardstanding area and surrounded by a steel railing, along with associated site works, services and landscaping. These works take place within the curtilage the protected structure. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2394/0 - 19 Dec 2019, Cavan County Council 19522: Conditional. Permission. for the following: (1) A single storey 75sqm extension at ground level to the existing health spa to accommodate additional changing facilities along with renovations to existing changing rooms, toilets and accessible toilet facilities; (2) A single storey 177sqm extension at lower ground level to provide additional relaxation areas near the main pool area; (3) Extended outdoor pool terrace and new hydrotherapy pool along with a new single storey plant room of 61.5sqm to be constructed into the hillside adjacent to terrace; (4) Outdoor 'Thermal Village' comprising of a single storey pod cabin structure of 19sqm containing a sauna, a single storey pod cabin structure of 19sqm containing a steam room, a single storey pod cabin structure of 19sqm containing accessible toilet, store room, and plant, repairs to existing stone ruin & external deck area with new hydrotherapy pool; (5) Outdoor 'Relaxation Zone' comprising of 3no. single storey pod cabin structures of 19sqm each containing an indoor relaxation area along with an outdoor private deck area; (6) Outdoor 'Wet Zone' comprising of 2no. external deck relaxation areas & 2no. external jacuzzies; (7) Associated landscaping works including excavation and enhancement of existing man-made lake, provision of walking trails, deck areas and soft landscaping throughout, along with all associated site works, plant and services throughout. All at Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Resort, Farnham, Co. Cavan (Protected Structure). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19522/0 - 21 Mar 2019, Cavan County Council 19101: Conditional. Permission. to construct a boat house and carry out associated site works at Farnham Estate which is a protected structure. An NIS has been submitted as part of this planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19101/0 - 19 Dec 2017, Cavan County Council 17546: Conditional. Permission. (1) change of use of existing two-storey outbuilding from ancillary hotel use to restaurant use with a floor area of 262.5 sq.m including internal and external modifications to the existing protected structure, including the introduction of external emergency escape stairs; (2) new single storey extension of 42 sq.m which will be used to connect the new restaurant to the main hotel building; including all associated site works at Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Resort (protected structure). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17546/0 - 18 Dec 2017, Cavan County Council 17547: Conditional. Permission. for development consisting of (1) demolition/removal of existing 4 no. portacabins consisting of changing rooms, toilets and golf shop; (2) new single storey golf clubhouse with a floor area of 346sqm consisting of changing rooms, refreshment area and associated retail space with access from existing car park, including all associated site works. All at Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Resort, Farnham, Co. Cavan (Protected Structure). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17547/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, site code 000007, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000007 - Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA, site code 004049, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004049 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs, site code 000007 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV020-044001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV020-044001-. A castle comprising a stone house and a bawn of sods with four flankers was erected here in the second decade of the 17th century. Parts of this appear to have been incorporated into a modern house which now occupies the site. An earlier account (Davies 1948, 112) described what must have been a flanker at the SE corner of the bawn — a two-storey strong structure with cross-vaulting over the upper floor. A tunnel (dims. 1.8m x 1.2m) roofed with slabs apparently ran outside the bawn enclosure in a northerly direction. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 - CV020-044002: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV020-044002-. A castle comprising a stone house and a bawn of sods with four flankers was erected here in the second decade of the 17th century. Parts of this appear to have been incorporated into a modern house which now occupies the site. An earlier account (Davies 1948a, 112) described what must have been a flanker at the SE corner of the bawn — a two-storey strong structure with cross-vaulting over the upper floor. A tunnel (dims 1.8m x 1.2m) roofed with slabs apparently ran outside the bawn enclosure in a northerly direction. Date of upload: 15 April, 2016 - CV020-045: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV020-045----. Raised circular area (int. dims. 59m NNW-SSE; 52m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone and a wide, deep fosse which has been largely infilled from SW-N-NNE. Well-defined break in bank at NNW probably represents original entrance. The internal area has been planted with deciduous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Radisson BLU Farnham Estate Hotel, country house, 1800–1805, National interest, registry number 40402008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402008. Detached neo-Classical nine-bay three-storey over basement country house, built 1802-3, as addition house of c.1780 which incorporated an earlier house of c.1700, both demolished c.1960. Retaining portico of c.1780 house, and having central three-bay pedimented breakfront to garden elevation. Now in use as hotel, connected to extensive hotel extension by means of a glazed lobby of c.2005. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan, rendered chimneystacks having moulded coping, concealed gutters with cast-iron downpipes. Pediment having carved Maxwell and Barry family coat-of-arms and block modillions over eaves cornice also having block modillion. Smooth rendered walls having raised plinth to ground floor sill level, plat band at first floor sill level and cut stone sills to second floor. Square-headed window openings diminishing in size to upper storey, having six-over-six timber sash windows and three-over-three to upper storey, three tall recessed round-arched window openings to ground floor of breakfront with plat band impost, one adapted as french doors. Double-height hexastyle Greek Doric portico having plain entablature with guttae to architrave, relocated to north-east elevation, now within hotel foyer. Internally series of enfilade reception rooms with historic plasterwork and joinery, and slender cantilevered stone staircase in elliptical hall. - Radisson BLU Farnham Estate Hotel, outbuilding, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40402009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402009. Multiple-bay single- and two-storey farmyard complex, built c.1780, having outbuildings arranged around four courtyards, with some upper storeys formerly also used as worker’s accommodation. Pitched slate roofs, replacement rainwater goods with few sections of cast-iron rainwater goods surviving. Squared rubble limestone walls, some limewashed. Square-headed window and door openings, some cut stone sills. Metal diamond-pane windows at ground level, fixed multiple pane timber windows in places. Sheeted timber or timber louvres to upper level openings. Sheeted timber doors. Courtyards subdivided by buildings and rubble stone walls with square-profile gate piers with pyramidal capstones. Bounded by roughly dressed stone walls and entrance gate of similar type to courtyard at main road to south. Square-headed integral door opening with sheeted timber door to north wall. Walled garden to east of outbuildings with rubble stone lower walls and red brick upper walls with integral segmental-arched red brick dressed entrance to east wall. Rebuilt south wall and red brick west wall. - Radisson BLU Farnham Estate Hotel, barn, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40402010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402010. Attached single-bay two-storey threshing barn with corn loft over, built c.1780, having full height gabled projection with semi-circular integral carriage arch, bellcote to apex of west gable, two-bay single-storey lean-to to north elevation, hipped three-bay single-storey block to east elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble stone walls, cut stone voussoirs to arch. Slit openings to west side of rear south elevation. Square-headed door openings with sheeted timber doors to lean-to. Square-headed openings with bars to east block. Cobbles, exposed rubble stone walls, and timber ceiling to interio. Centrally positioned in farmyard complex, providing access through the arch between the two eastern yards. - Radisson BLU Farnham Estate Hotel, worker's house, 1850–1890, Regional interest, registry number 40402011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402011. Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic estate worker's house, built c.1870, having central projecting gabled porch. Slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles having trefoils apertures, decorative bargeboards to gables, cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with chamfered smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with stone sills. Three-over-six timber sash windows to ground level to front, porch, and south-west gable. Paired three-over-three sash windows to attic level of north-east gable. Sheeted timber door to side of porch. The front door faces the former rear drive to Farnham House. Remains of walled garden to the rear. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Farnham, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2050, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2050.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farnham.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farnham.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farnham.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Farnham with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymackinroe: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballymackinroe.md - Deredis Upper: https://everytownland.com/cavan/deredis-upper.md - Derrygid: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derrygid-20709.md - Drumbar: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbar-20807.md - Drumelis: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumelis.md - Drummonum: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummonum.md - Paddock: https://everytownland.com/cavan/paddock.md - Tullylough: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tullylough.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farnham - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/farnham