Farrangarve
Townland in the civil parish of Killashandra, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 171.7 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 110
- registered freehold, median 4,121 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrangarve, from 42 m² to 103,840 m² (10.38 ha, 25.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Farrangarve 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
3 Sept 2025Conditional
for a single storey extension to the side & rear of existing dwelling, alterations to existing plans & elevations and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560523
7 Aug 2025Conditional
for retention of a single-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560459
2 Jan 2024Refused
to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460005
1 Sept 2021Conditional
retain and continue construction of 1. agricultural storage shed, 2. detached slatted house building, 3. silage pit and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 21544
29 Jun 2021Conditional
for a detached garage and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21399
15 Mar 2021Conditional
for the proposed construction of a detached storage unit which will be used in conjunction with existing storage unit which was previously granted full planning permission under Planning Ref Number PL 05/460 and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 21147
17 Jul 2019Conditional
to retain existing domestic fuel/lawnmower shed
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19275
19 Apr 2018Conditional
of existing two number extensions and porch as constructed which service existing single storey dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18159
8 May 2017Conditional
to erect fully serviced dwelling and detached domestic garage, entrance walls and piers, install waste water treatment system and percolation and carry out associated site and ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17191
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 Farrangarve.
Recorded monuments
- CV030-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
An earlier report (OPW 1974) described an almost circular raised area (int. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and slight traces of a fosse. Original entrance position was not identifiable. Site has been levelled. Not visible at ground level. 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
- CV030-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
An earlier report (OPW 1974) described an almost circular raised area (int. diam. c. 42m) enclosed by a low earthen embankment. Original entrance position was not identifiable. The field in which the site is located has been planted with coniferous trees. Not visible at ground level. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farrangarve.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farrangarve.
- 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
- Farrangarve, Arva11 sales
The townland
- Name
- Farrangarve
- Area
- 1,717,495 m² (171.75 ha, 424.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashandra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Electoral division
- Arvagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Arvagh electoral division: 967 people in 385 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corratober, Drumalt, Drumhillagh, Drumshinny, Enaghan (Co. Longford), Forthill, Gartylough, Kilgarve, Lisraherty (Co. Longford), Woodland
- Placenames
- Farrangarve 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.