Fahanalooscane
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymartle, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Faiche an Luascáin
- Area
- 217 ha
- 536 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fahanalooscane, from 18 m² to 471,293 m² (47.13 ha, 116.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Fahanalooscane 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
7 Sept 2026Awaiting admin validation
Permission for construction of agricultural shed (for storage of hay, straw and agricultural machinery)
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2339
20 Jun 2018Conditional
Decommissioning and removal of an existing septic tank and associated services and for the installation of a secondary wastewater treatment unit and associated polishing filter with all necessary ancillary site services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5595
30 May 2014Conditional
Demolition of existing attached single storey garage, alterations to elevations of existing cottage, construction of new storey-and-a-half side and rear extension, new detached garage with store area, upgrading of existing septic tank to a new waste water treatment unit, new potable well, upgrading of site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5147
23 May 2014Incompleted application
Demolition of existing attached single storey garage, alterations to elevations of existing cottage, construction of a new storey and a half side and rear extension, new detached garage with store area, upgrading of existing septic tank to a new waste water treatment unit, new potable well, upgraded site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5080
28 Dec 2012Conditional
Alterations to and construction of a two-storey extension to side of dwelling house, and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6638
12 Jun 2012Conditional
Demolish an existing isolation house, construct an extension to existing agricultural shed incorporating diary, milking parlour, grain store and machinery store. The extension will include a roofed holding yard, an underground slatted slurry storage tank, extension to milking parlour, extension to grain store, cubicle housing, loose house and easy feed passage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5286
18 Jun 2008Conditional
Side, rear and porch extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7355
29 Feb 2008Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5092
25 Jan 2008Conditional
Demolition of cottage and construction of dormer type dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4342
24 May 2007Withdrawn
Demolition of cottage and construction of dormer type dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8089
2 May 2007Conditional
Raising of levels of agricultural land with construction materials i.e inert soil/rock and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7480
23 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Raising levels of land with inert soil/rock and topsoil for agricultural use
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6367
16 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Raising levels of land with surplus construction materials i.e. inert soil/rock and topsoil for agricultural use
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5143
30 Jan 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4588
25 Sept 2006Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10886
12 Sept 2006Incompleted application
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10530
25 Jul 2006Conditional
Construction of extension to dwelling and retention of detached garage and alterations and change of use of garage to living accommodation
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9223
10 Jul 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/8728
24 Oct 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7757
26 Aug 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/6177
11 Oct 2004Incompleted application
Bungalow (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7639
30 Aug 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6559
27 Feb 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1214
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 Fahanalooscane.
Recorded monuments
- CO098-021 Enclosure
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured square enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight rise along line of W bank, which survived up to 1934 (OS 6-inch map). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO098-058 Ritual site - holy well
Description
On E bank of stream. Flooded; inaccessible. No longer in holy use. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO098-059002 Fulacht fia
Description
According to local information, fulacht fiadh here. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fahanalooscane.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Fahanalooscane.
- 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 Fahanalooscane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Fahanalooscane · Faiche an Luascáin
- Area
- 2,169,500 m² (216.95 ha, 536.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymartle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Ballymartle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymartle electoral division: 1,409 people in 453 households; 79% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arlinstown, Ballinaboy, Coolkirky, Corruragh, Knocklucy, Mill-Land
- Placenames
- Fahanalooscane 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.