Farranacounter
Townland in the civil parish of Ross, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Fearann an Chantaire
- Area
- 38.3 ha
- 95 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,802 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranacounter, from 1,631 m² to 179,276 m² (17.93 ha, 44.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Farranacounter 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
27 Sept 2019Conditional
a) Permission for demolition of existing porch to existing dwelling house b) Permission for construction of single storey extension to existing dwelling house and c) Permission for construction of storey and half extension to existing dwelling house with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/624
22 May 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/953
17 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/686
8 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1808
25 Feb 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1101
7 May 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3115
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 Farranacounter.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farranacounter.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farranacounter.
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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Farranacounter.
- 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 Farranacounter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farranacounter · Fearann an Chantaire
- Area
- 382,892 m² (38.29 ha, 94.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Coolcraheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coolcraheen electoral division: 703 people in 245 households; 81% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhoulahan, Derryduff, Garranecore, Kilruane, Knocknageehy, Lissard
- Placenames
- Farranacounter 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.