Farrangalway
Townland in the civil parish of Ringcurran, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish Fearann an Ghallaígh
- Area
- 85 ha
- 210 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 3,298 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 59
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrangalway, from 109 m² to 284,367 m² (28.44 ha, 70.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Farrangalway 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
17 Jun 2025Application invalid
Permission for Retention of an existing domestic stone shed used for storage and associated site works and services.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5159
8 May 2025Incompleted application
Permission for retention of an existing domestic garage, connection to existing treatment plant , associated site works and services
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4866
10 Feb 2025Conditional permission
10 Year Planning permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 9 hectares. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 2 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 2 no. containerised energy storage modules, 1 no. single storey spare parts container, 1 no. medium voltage control/switching substation (comprising either single-storey building or 2 no. modular units), 1 no. weather station, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, temporary construction compound, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 1 no. existing entrance from the L7247. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for the duration.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4167
28 May 2024Refused
Permission for Retention and completion of an existing dwelling house, treatment plant, associated site works and services.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4967
20 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, vehicular entrance, treatment plant and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6137
20 Jun 2023Conditional permission
Extension and alterations to existing dwelling house including; 1) construction of a new single-storey extension to the east (side) of dwelling; 2) elevational changes to existing dwelling; 3) construction of new detached domestic garage; and 4) all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5251
17 May 2023Incompleted application
To construct a single storey dwelling house, vehicular entrance, treatment plant and soil polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5005
26 Apr 2023Conditional
The construction of a two-storey dwelling with a new entrance and installation of a septic tank and percolation area with ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4820
22 Mar 2023Incompleted application
The construction of a two-storey dwelling with a new entrance and installation of a septic tank and percolation area with ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4527
15 Dec 2022Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse together with wastewater treatment unit and sand polishing filter, new site entrance and all other associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6774
8 Jun 2022Conditional
Conversion and extension of ground floor of existing farm building to an independent dwelling unit, as ancillary family accommodation, decommission existing septic tank, install new wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5329
5 Mar 2021Conditional
A two storey, two bedroom dwelling with a new entrance and installation of a septic tank and percolation area with site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4555
8 Feb 2021Incompleted application
A two storey, two bedroom dwelling with a new entrance and installation of a septic tank and percolation area with site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4271
9 Jun 2020Refused
A dwelling house, treatment plant, associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5168
5 Mar 2020Incompleted application
A dwelling house, treatment plant, associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4458
7 Feb 2020Incompleted application
A dwelling house, treatment plant, associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4221
17 Dec 2019Refused
To consist of a two storey two bedroom dwelling with shared entrance to land adjoining. Works include installation of a septic tank and percolation area with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7001
21 Nov 2019Incompleted application
To consist of a two storey, two bedroom dwelling with shared entrance to land adjoining. Works include installation of a septic tank and percolation area with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6781
24 Sept 2019Conditional
Permission for upgrading of the existing wastewater treatment system to include a new final effluent pump station after the existing waste water treatment unit and to install a soil polishing filter and associated site works and Retention of a) dwelling as constructed (change of plan to that permitted under Planning Reference No. 02/4202, b) Retention of a detached domestic workshop/garden store building and c) all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6324
11 Feb 2019Conditional
Retention of two timber domestic storage sheds, well and associated site works and services.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4293
11 Feb 2019Refused
Dwellinghouse, treatment plant, associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4289
22 Jan 2019Withdrawn
(a) Retention of a dwelling as constructed (change of plan to that permitted under Planning Reference No. 02/4202), (b) Retention of a detached domestic workshop / garden store building, (c) All ancillary works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4098
14 Jan 2019Incompleted application
The Retention for two timber storage sheds, well and associated site works and services.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4040
18 Apr 2018Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, treatment plant, associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4954
22 Mar 2018Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse together with waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, new site entrance and all other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4699
The 25 most recent of 59 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 Farrangalway.
Recorded monuments
- CO112-001 Country house
Description
Eighteenth century 2-storey brick-built house. Entrance front (S) of 5 bays; central round-headed doorway with fanlight. Roof gable-ended with end chimneys. Blocked attic windows in E gable. Concave cornice under eaves. Weather-slated front and gables. Central 2-storey gabled projection to rear. 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
- Railway station, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey former railway station, built 1863, having recessed three-bay porch with recent canopy to front (south-east). Barrel corrugated-iron roof having red brick chimneystacks and rendered gable copings. Rendered walls with rendered plinth to porch, having partially exposed rubble limestone wall to rear (north-west). Square-headed window openings with render and tooled limestone sills throughout, having timber-framed bipartite windows with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having camber-headed lower sashes. Round-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills to side elevation (north-west), having remains of one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door openings having timber battened and panelled doors. Remains of timber panelled ticket booth with glazed upper panels to interior. Timber station signage located to both platforms comprising square-profile supporting piers with architrave, frieze with painted name and cornice. Recently erected timber fence and gates with GS & WR cast-iron signs with raised lettering. Located opposite former railway building on rubble limestone platform with red brick coping. Rubble limestone enclosing wall with rendered coping. Square-profile ashlar limestone gate piers having limestone caps and vehicular and pedestrian wrought-iron gates.
- House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1850, having recent porch to front (south-east) and recent flat-roofed extension to rear. Hipped corrugated-iron roof having rendered chimneystack and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Battered roughcast rendered walls having roughcast rendered buttress to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening having uPVC door. Located within own ground with recently constructed concrete block enclosing walls.
- Store/warehouse, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay double-height former railway warehouse, built 1863. Barrel corrugated-iron roof with rooflights. Corrugated-iron walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed door openings to front (north-west) and rear (south-east) elevations, having corrugated-iron canopies supported on cast-iron brackets. Timber battened sliding doors having cast-iron handles, locks, brackets and rails. Recently inserted camber-headed door and window opening to side (south-west) elevation, having glazed timber door surmounted by timber casement window. Located opposite former railway station on rubble limestone platform with red brick coping. Shared rubble limestone enclosing wall having rendered coping. Square-profile ashlar limestone gate piers having limestone caps and vehicular and pedestrian wrought-iron gates.
- Bridge, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span rubble limestone railway bridge, built 1863, carrying railway over road. Round-headed arch having dressed limestone voussoirs and roughly dressed rubble stone soffit. Roughly dressed snecked limestone piers and battered abutments having roughly coursed limestone block parapet with render coping.
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 Farrangalway.
- 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 Farrangalway with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farrangalway · Fearann an Ghallaígh
- Area
- 850,350 m² (85.04 ha, 210.13 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, Coolvallanane Beg, Farranamoy, Mellifontstown, Mullendunny
- Placenames
- Farrangalway 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.