Farran

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farran, from 197 m² to 205,957 m² (20.6 ha, 50.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Farran 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.

• 18 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Permission to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2164

• 5 May 2026Application withdrawn

  Permission to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1157

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling house with attached car-port and garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6661

• 28 May 2007Conditional

  Proposed lagoon to store cattle slurry, soiled water and parlour washings and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1390

• 28 May 2007Conditional

  (1) Overground steel tank to store cattle slurry, (2) farmyard manure storage apron, (3) general purpose livestock shed with integrated underground storage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1392

• 20 Mar 2007Conditional

  (1) Overground steel tank to store cattle slurry, (2) general purpose livestock shed, (3) general purpose storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/768

• 2 May 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/769

• 11 Jun 2001Conditional

  Dwelling & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3350

• 1 Nov 2000Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/6554

• 26 Apr 2000Refused

  2 no. dwellings

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2465

• 30 Jul 1999Conditional

  Dwelling

  Approval · Cork County Council, 99/4198

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farran.

Recorded monuments

• CO123-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on W-facing slope. Circular area (42m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.3m) with external fosse (D 0.6m) to W. Gap in bank to NNE (Wth 2m). Interior raised on W side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO123-006 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture on W-facing slope. Discovered 1985. Earth-cut, subrectangular chamber (L 3.6m; Wth 1m; H 0.72m); construction shaft to S; possible creepway or entrance to further chamber, blocked by collapse, to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Farran.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Farran, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farran.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Farran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Farran · An Fearann

Area

2,038,526 m² (203.85 ha, 503.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmaloda, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Kilmaloda West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

203 people lived in 73 households in the Kilmaloda West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel Commons, Knocknagallagh, Maulrour, Monteen, Skeaf, Skeaf West, Tullymurrihy

Placenames

Farran 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.