Farranarouga North
Townland in the civil parish of Ringcurran, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish Fearann na Ruaige Thuaidh
- Area
- 9.4 ha
- 23 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,939 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranarouga North, from 197 m² to 25,642 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Farranarouga North 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 Jul 2026Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1829
2 Sept 2013Conditional
Retention of porch to western gable of original dwelling and retention of 4 no. velux to rear of dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/5705
18 May 2009Conditional
Construction of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5597
23 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5273
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 Farranarouga North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farranarouga North.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c.1910, having lean-to corrugated-iron extension to side (north-west). Pitched slate roof having timber clad eaves course, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with chamfered stone sills, having brick block-and-start surround and rendered voussoirs to front (north-east) elevation and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with raised render surround to front elevation, having timber battened door with cast-iron door furniture. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing wall with moulded render coping and cast-iron gate.
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, 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 Farranarouga North.
- 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 Farranarouga North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farranarouga North · Fearann na Ruaige Thuaidh
- Area
- 94,299 m² (9.43 ha, 23.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringcurran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbey-Lands, Brownsmills, Camphill, Clashmore, Liscahane Beg, Spital-Land
- Placenames
- Farranarouga North 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.