Farranavarrigane
Townland in the civil parish of Macloneigh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Fearann Uí Mhearagáin
- Area
- 69.8 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,018 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranavarrigane, from 20 m² to 198,678 m² (19.87 ha, 49.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jul 2015Conditional
Erection of a loose cattle shed, roofed manure pit, cattle handling area, underground effluent tank, isolation unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5447
30 Sept 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse (amendment to planning permission granted under planning ref no. 04/5161. Amendment includes a revised house design & site layout)
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7205
17 Jun 2009Incompleted application
Amendment to planning ref.no. 04/5161, amendment includes a revised house design & modified site boundaries & position of on-site effluent treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5982
8 Apr 2009Conditional
Dwelling house with on-site effluent treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5105
5 Dec 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and installation of effluent treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12868
6 Dec 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8922
6 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5161
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
- Special Area of Conservation: The Gearagh SAC 000108
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Gearagh 000108
Recorded monuments
- CO071-081 Bullaun stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1901 OS 6-inch maps; marked on 1938 OS 6-inch map just inside field fence to W of road and close to S bank of River Lee. Relocated across road in Macloneigh graveyard (CO071-082001-) prior to flooding of Lee Valley Hydro-electric Scheme. Irregular stone (H 0.34m; 1.1m x 0.7m) with upper surface of two irregular planes; circular hollow (0.31m x 0.29m; D 0.16m) on steeply sloping plane. Recorded by Fahy (1957b, 75) prior to relocation, who also noted smaller hollow on level plane measuring '....6ins in diameter and 11/2ins deep'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-082001 Graveyard
Description
In pasture, atop hillock; overlooking Lee River to N. Access through field from road to W. Roughly pentagonal-shaped raised area (c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S), defined by low scarp (H c. 0.5m), enclosed within subcircular tree-lined fence lying c. 2m outside line of scarp; in 1700 it was uncertain which of these defined 'the bounds of the churchyard' (Lunham 1909, 24). Ruins of late-medieval parish church of Macloneigh (CO071-082002-) just inside scarp to N. Bullaun stone (CO071-081----) relocated inside fence to S. Most recent burial dated 1985; earliest inscribed headstone noted dated 1782; many low uninscribed gravemarkers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-082002 Church
Description
On N edge of graveyard (CO071-082001-); ivy-clad remains of gabled rectangular church (27.4m E-W; 7.6m N-S); walls stand to near full height except N wall, most of which has entirely fallen. Remains of doorway near W end of S wall; two further gaps in S wall indicate window positions. Small lintelledwall presses at S end of E wall and E end of S wall, also wall press in NE corner. Central window embrasure in E wall largely fallen but light survives: double round-headed light below simple tracery head consisting of two 'comma shapes' below an elongated vertical oval with pointed ends; probably 16th-century in style (see Leask 1960, vol. 3, 125-31). This window is flanked inside by two small niches with pointed heads. Near E end of N wall is blocked-up doorway; door with pointed arch faces into church. Remains of late-medieval parish church of Macloneigh, in ruins since atleast 1700 (Lunham 1909, 24). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Farranavarrigane.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Farranavarrigane.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farranavarrigane.
- 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 Farranavarrigane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farranavarrigane · Fearann Uí Mhearagáin
- Area
- 698,112 m² (69.81 ha, 172.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macloneigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Macloneigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Macloneigh electoral division: 905 people in 318 households; 89% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annahalabog, Coolcour, Inchinashingane, Sleveen East, Sleveen West
- Placenames
- Farranavarrigane 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.