Farranacoush

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranacoush, from 13 m² to 274,097 m² (27.41 ha, 67.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Farranacoush 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.

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional permission

  Construction of a 173sqm one and a half storey dwelling with a separate 22sqm garage. Associated site works include formation of an access road, landscaping works around the proposed dwelling and provision of a waste treatment system. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with this application

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/301

• 9 May 2025Incompleted application

  Construction of a 173sqm one and a half storey dwelling with a separate 22sqm garage. Associated site works include formation of an access road, landscaping works around the proposed dwelling and provision of a waste treatment system. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with this application

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/256

• 28 May 2024Withdrawn

  6 no. semi-detached two storey dwelling units (5 no. two-bed houses and 1 no. three-bed house), a new pedestrian entrance, a new vehicular entrance, nine no. parking spaces, installation of a treatment unit and percolation area, connection to the mains water and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/269

• 15 Sept 2022Refused

  Construction of a 171 sqm one and a half storey dwelling with a 27 sqm separate garage. Associated site works include formation of an access road, landscaping works around the proposed dwelling and provision of a waste treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/582

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, ancillary domestic garage, proprietary treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/109

• 2 Jul 2019Refused

  To construct a dwelling house, ancillary domestic garage with first floor storage, proprietary treatment pland and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/437

• 16 May 2019Incompleted application

  To construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/328

• 26 Nov 2018Conditional

  Construction of single storey extension to existing hotel / restaurant / bar facility together with alterations to patio area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/709

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/722

• 10 Nov 2017Incompleted application

  Construction of a garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/709

• 29 Jan 2013Conditional

  (1) The removal of existing 20th century single storey extensions to the rear and side of dwelling house, (2) the construction of new single storey extensions to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house, (3) the renovation and extension of existing ancillary shed/structure, (4) the provision of replacement septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/48

• 25 May 2010Conditional

  Construction of new site entrance, dwelling house and garage and installation of a proposed septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/364

• 11 Jan 2010Withdrawn

  Construction of new site entrance, dwellinghouse and garage and installation of a proposed septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6

• 15 Dec 2009Incompleted application

  Construction of new site entrance, dwelling house and garage and installation of a proposed septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2168

• 21 Nov 2008Conditional

  Construction of entrance and access road to existing dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2074

• 31 Oct 2008Conditional

  Retention for single storey extension to public bar

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1957

• 20 Oct 2008Incompleted application

  Retention for single storey extension to public bar

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1883

• 23 Sept 2008Incompleted application

  Retention for single story extension to public bar

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1727

• 18 Aug 2008Refused

  (a) Retention of dead work as constructed on site, previously granted under planning ref: 00/125 (b) construct a dwelling house with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1526

• 13 Jun 2008Conditional

  Construct open storage area for boats, building for repair and maintenance of boats including first floor office, treatment unit and percoalation area, slipway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1135

• 9 May 2008Incompleted application

  Construct boat storage facility and building for repair and maintenance of boats and install wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/867

• 7 Feb 2008Conditional

  Change of use of existing Hotel facility to an apartment block consisting of 12no. 2 bed apartments and 2no. 3 bed apartments; Construction of stand alone public bar/restaurant with 10no. accommodation rooms, staff quarters, cold room and laundry facilities; Development incorporates partial demolitions, alterations and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/230

• 17 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Change of use of existing hotel facility to an apartment block consisting of 12no. 2 bed apartments and 2no. 3 bed apartments and construction of stand alone public bar/restaurant with 10no. accommodation rooms, staff quarters, cold room and laundry facilities; Devlopment incorporates partial demolitions, alterations and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/80

• 30 Jul 2007Refused

  Construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/2047

• 19 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Approval · Cork County Council, 05/5164

The 25 most recent of 43 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101

Recorded monuments

• CO149-018001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Sub-rectangular promontory on E side of Sherkin Island occupied by remains of late medieval fortification (CO149-018002-). Westropp (1914, 108) noted silted-up fosse, just in front (to W) of curtain wall, accross neck of promontory, evident in section face at either end; fosse section no longer visible due to overgrowth and erosion. 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

• CO149-018002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Rectangular tower (4.8m N-S; 8.9m E-W) on short promontory projecting from E side of Sherkin Island, overlooking Baltimore Harbour; overlooked from W. Remains of bawn wall cross neck of promontory to W of tower. Tower now stands to two storeys but originally higher; modified in recent times as farm building (now disused). Ground floor entrance in W wall blocked; window in N wall now used as doorway. Ground level covered by modern wooden floor but corbels and joist holes of original wooden floor evident. First floor entered by door in W wall; mural passage on S side of doorway leads to tall narrow loop in SW corner; mural passage on N side leads to spiral stairs in NW corner. Small mural chamber in N wall entered from W side window embrasure. Splayed and lintelled windows set into square-set arched embrasures; lights square or round headed. Tower now covered by modern galvanised roof. Heavily modified and poorly preserved section of bawn wall indicates position of original gateway with ruined mural tower immediately to N. Castle of the O'Driscoll clan attacked by citizens of Waterford in 1537; garrisoned by Spanish in 1601 (Coleman 1925, 26-33) (Westropp 1914, 108-11). 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1978).

• CO149-018003 Bawn
  Description

  Rectangular tower (4.8m N-S; 8.9m E-W) on short promontory projecting from E side of Sherkin Island, overlooking Baltimore Harbour; overlooked from W. Remains of bawn wall cross neck of promontory to W of tower. Tower now stands to two storeys but originally higher; modified in recent times as farm building (now disused). Ground floor entrance in W wall blocked; window in N wall now used as doorway. Ground level covered by modern wooden floor but corbels and joist holes of original wooden floor evident. First floor entered by door in W wall; mural passage on S side of doorway leads to tall narrow loop in SW corner; mural passage on N side leads to spiral stairs in NW corner. Small mural chamber in N wall entered from W side window embrasure. Splayed and lintelled windows set into square-set arched embrasures; lights square or round headed. Tower now covered by modern galvanised roof. Heavily modified and poorly preserved section of bawn wall indicates position of original gateway with ruined mural tower immediately to N. Castle of the O'Driscoll clan attacked by citizens of Waterford in 1537; garrisoned by Spanish in 1601 (Coleman 1925, 26-33) (Westropp 1914,108-11). 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

• CO149-019001 Graveyard
  Description

  Graveyard of Franciscan Friary (CO149-019002-). 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

• CO149-019002 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, close to the shore, on the E side of Sherkin island. This Franciscan priory was founded by Fineen O'Driscoll in 1449 though building probably did not commence until the 1460s (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 258-9). Described by Cochrane (1912, 6) as 'of moderate dimensions', the ruins consist of a church with domestic buildings around a cloister to the N. The church consists of a nave and chancel separated by an inserted tower, and a transept to the S of the nave, with two side chapels, separated from the nave by an arcade of three pointed arches on square piers. The E and W windows of the church are now missing their tracery, which was of 'switch-line type, but its sub-arches were round' (Leask 1960, Vol. 3, 107). The surviving windows in the transept and side chapels have twin pointed lights with a central mullion. The tower (H c. 15m) is very low by Franciscan standards; there is a vault over the ground level, pointed ribbed arches facing the nave and chancel, and the pointed terminal of the rib to the SE is decorated with a vine leaf motif. The Friary was burnt in 1537 (Conlan 1988, 141) and subsequently repaired; the domestic buildings show evidence of many alterations and additions. The E range is vaulted over the ground floor; the W range ground was also vaulted but it has now collapsed. The S wall of the N range are gone; on inspection a neat pile of rubble in the centre of the garth had been built from 'an accumulation of debris' by the Board of Works (Cochrane 1912, 10). Later additions are a square gabled structure between the W and N ranges and a three storey sacristy between the E range and the choir. The church has long been used for burial and the ground level is now higher than the original floor level. Abutting the friary to the E are the remains of a fish palace (CO153-019003-). In conjunction with the repair of the structure by the OPW, excavations were carried out in 1987 (Lynch 1987), and the results were published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society in 2018 (Lynch, 55-127). The excavations revealed the layout of the cloister walks, which had been used for interment of burials from the earliest years of the foundation of the friary. A complex system of water management had been put in place by the friars; 'a series of stone-built drains ranging in date from the 15th to the 19th century' were uncovered, as well as a stone-built well (D 2.5m) of probable seventeenth-century date to the NW of the cloister buildings. Of particular note was the quantity and range of imported ceramics recovered from the vicinity of the friary. These ceramics, mostly of 16th and 17th century date, originated from Iberia, France, Germany, the Low Countries, China and Britain, and may be explained by the trading, fishing and piratical activities in neighbouring Baltimore Harbour and adjacent coastal areas. This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 169). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). The entry was revised and updated in the light of recent research: see Ann Lynch, ‘The Franciscan friary on Sherkin Island, Co. Cork: excavations 1987-1990’, Vol. 123, (2018), 55-127. Photographs attached CO149-019002-_01: aerial view of the friary, from N. CO149-019002-_02: view of the friary from NW. CO149-019002-_03: view of friary N. CO149-019002-_04: Exterior of friary from NE. CO149-019002-_05: Interior of S transept, from SW. CO149-019002-_06: Interior of chancel, from SW. CO149-019002-_07: Interior of the E range, from N. CO149-019002-_08: Interior of E range, from S. Date of upload/revision: 14 November 2018.

• CO149-019003 Fish palace
  Description

  Remains of fish palace (Went 1946) on E coast of Sherkin Island. Press beam support wall (L 20.4m; H 3.5m; wall thickness 1.37m) stands just E of Friary (CO149-019002-). On E and W elevation support wall are twenty-nine lintelled niches (H 0.18m; Wth 0.15m; D 0.2m) at 0.8m above ground level and eleven beam holes (Wth 0.3m; H 0.35m) peforating wall 1.9m above ground level. 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

• CO149-053 Mass-rock
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, now disused. Banded shaft, fluted head, ram’s head bucket grip to spout and curved cow’s tail handle terminating in ball. Set on concrete plinth and enclosed by rendered walls.

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

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 Farranacoush.

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.

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

Name

Farranacoush · Fearann na Coise

Area

1,546,160 m² (154.62 ha, 382.06 acres)

Civil parish

Tullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Cape Clear, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cape Clear electoral division: 308 people in 139 households; 75% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gneeves, Harboursmouth

Placenames

Farranacoush 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.