Farraneen
Farraneen is a townland in the civil parish of Tracton, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Fearainnín.
- Area
- 20.5 ha
- 51 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,727 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farraneen, from 375 m² to 130,519 m² (13.05 ha, 32.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Farraneen 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
15 May 2018Conditional
To erect a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system, bored well, domestic garage, relocation of existing site entrance to improve sight lines from same and all associated site works on existing site.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5227
22 Mar 2013Unconditional
Dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment works, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 07/9268
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4487
24 Aug 2011Refused
Construction of single storey dwelling together with proprietary wastewater treatment and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 11/5824
2 Jul 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9268
22 May 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8009
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 Farraneen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farraneen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farraneen.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Farraneen, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farraneen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Farraneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farraneen · An Fearainnín
- Area
- 204,534 m² (20.45 ha, 50.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tracton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Farranbrien, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 532 people lived in 194 households in the Farranbrien electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry East, Ballinluig West, Ballyvorane North, Farranbrien West
- Placenames
- Farraneen 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.