Farranbrien West
Townland in the civil parish of Tracton, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Fearann Bhriain Thiar
- Area
- 265.3 ha
- 656 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 3,486 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 63
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranbrien West, from 118 m² to 306,188 m² (30.62 ha, 75.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Farranbrien West 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
5 Jun 2026Application withdrawn
Permission to construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1502
22 May 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of agricultural building to include cubicle livestock housing and slatted slurry storage tank along with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1368
30 Jun 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a poultry house, plant room, soiled water tank, feed bins, dungstead and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5274
9 May 2025Conditional permission
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4874
23 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for retention and completion of detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4756
6 Aug 2024Conditional
Retention of: 1) Change in height of roof including fitting of rooflights, 2) Conversion of attic space to habitable accommodation, 3) New locations for well and septic tank, 4) Entrance. Permission for: 1) Alterations to rear elevation and 2) Rooflight to front elevation of dwelling previously granted permission under Planning Reg. No. 07/6619.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5493
16 May 2024Incompleted application
Permission for Retention of (i) Change in height of roof including fitting of roof lights (ii) Conversion of attic space to habitable accommodation and Permission for (i) Alterations to rear elevation and (ii) Roof light to front elevation of dwelling previously granted permission under Planning Reg. No. 07/6619.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4880
7 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for minor modifications to an existing single storey detached dwelling with double garage, to include new roof lights to the front, side and rear, a new first floor gable window, part conversion of the existing attic space and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4399
20 Jan 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4064
14 Oct 2022Conditional
The construction of a single storey dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6321
2 Sept 2022Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a single-storey dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6001
3 Nov 2021Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6982
16 Sept 2021Conditional
Retention of constructed raised decking area with railing to front of dwelling and permission for retention of existing office extension to rear of domestic garage.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/6545
20 Jul 2021Conditional
The construction of a single storey dwellinghouse and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6005
17 May 2021Incompleted application
The construction of a single-storey dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5344
15 Apr 2021Incompleted application
The construction of a single-storey dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4988
5 Mar 2021Withdrawn
To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4559
26 Jan 2021Refused
The construction of a detached dwelling with a detached garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4148
22 Dec 2020Incompleted application
Construction of a detached dwelling with a detached garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6935
14 Aug 2020Conditional
To construct a single storey dwellinghouse with detached garage and associated site works and services including the installation of a waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5740
1 Nov 2019Refused
The construction of a 4 bedroom detached family home, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6619
14 Aug 2019Conditional
To construct a cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6037
5 Jul 2019Withdrawn
To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5714
27 Nov 2018Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse with detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7086
18 Sept 2015Conditional
Construction of dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6096
The 25 most recent of 63 applications.
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 Farranbrien West.
Recorded monuments
- CO113-001001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as semicircular enclosure (diam. c. 35m N-S) abutted to W by N-S field fence. Levelled; visible as spread of stone; no other surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO113-001002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hill. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured, circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO113-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. In process of destruction. Circular area (35.2m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 2m) and external ditch (D 1.85m). Bank destroyed to SSE and WNW; material dumped in interior. Interior slopes to S; badly disturbed by recent digging. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Farranbrien West.
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 Farranbrien West.
- 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
The townland
- Name
- Farranbrien West · Fearann Bhriain Thiar
- Area
- 2,653,404 m² (265.34 ha, 655.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tracton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Farranbrien, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Farranbrien electoral division: 532 people in 194 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindeasig, Ballinluig East, Ballinluig West, Ballyvorane, Ballyvorane North, Farranbrien East, Farraneen, Granig, Tubbrid
- Placenames
- Farranbrien West 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.