Farrancotter

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrancotter, from 1,006 m² to 410,408 m² (41.04 ha, 101.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for the change of use of vacant classroom into a full day-care childcare facility

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6408

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5215

• 9 Dec 2021Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7286

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  To demolish 2 No. chimneys to southern elevation and rear projection to northern elevation all to existing dwelling house, also existing detached domestic garage/store. Permission to (a) construct a new single storey extension to northern and western elevations of existing dwelling house, (b) construct a new detached domestic garage including office, (c) construct a new vehicular entrance, (d) install a new septic tank and polishing filter, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6976

• 19 Aug 2015Withdrawn

  Permission for (1) Retention of in-situ concrete base foundation and (2) Construction of a domestic garage structure

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5842

• 17 Jul 2015Incompleted application

  1. Retention of in-situ concrete base foundation and 2. The construction of a domestic garage structure.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5594

• 8 Jul 2015Conditional

  Demolish an existing front porch and single storey flat roof extension and attached outbuilding to rear of existing storey and a half type dwellinghouse, construct a new storey and a half type extension to the rear and side and alterations to existing storey and a half type dwellinghouse, decommission existing septic tank and to install a new waste water treatment unit and polishing filter

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5498

• 8 May 2015Incompleted application

  Construction of a domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4965

• 1 Apr 2015Incompleted application

  Permission to construct garage & storage shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4636

• 27 Feb 2014Incompleted application

  Construction of an all weather playing pitch with associated ground works, fencing, drainage and all ancillaries and site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4391

• 30 Mar 2012Conditional

  Construction of garage to side of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4628

• 8 Sept 2008Conditional

  Extension of existing quarry for the extraction of rock

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8798

• 26 Aug 2008Incompleted application

  Extensification of existing quarry

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8587

• 14 Mar 2008Conditional

  Extraction of rock from an existing quarry using blasting techniques to replace rock breaking techniques

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5445

• 24 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Use of explosives for blasting as method of extraction of material in existing quarry

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4324

• 31 Aug 2007Conditional

  Alterations and extension to school to include 2 no. classrooms and staff facilities, installation of treatment plant and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10650

• 15 May 2006Conditional

  Erection of security fencing, provision for car parking spaces, concrete footpath and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7188

• 12 Nov 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5900

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farrancotter.

Recorded monuments

• CO016-187 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, near top of hill. Depicted on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch map as arc ESE->WNW formed by townland boundary. Arc (C c. 55m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) ESE->WNW with internal fosse (D 0.8m). Bank overgrown with hawthorn bushes. Fosse infilled with rubbish SW->WNW. No visible surface trace survives to suggest arc formed part of circle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO016-189 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by broken line on 1937 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, but shown c. 10-20m further to NE. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Farrancotter.

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

At the centre of the townland of Farrancotter, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farrancotter.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Farrancotter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Farrancotter · Fearann Mhic Coitir

Area

666,361 m² (66.64 ha, 164.66 acres)

Civil parish

Buttevant, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Templemary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

344 people lived in 129 households in the Templemary electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherascrub West, Dreenagh East, Templemary, Tinnascart

Placenames

Farrancotter 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.