Farranhavane
Farranhavane is a townland in the civil parish of Templemartin, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Fearann Uí Chiabháin.
- Area
- 202.4 ha
- 500 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 47
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranhavane, from 30 m² to 267,920 m² (26.79 ha, 66.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Farranhavane 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
2 Sept 2026Awaiting recommendation
Permission to construct cattle underpass, effluent storage tank, access roads and cow roadways and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2288
14 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of agricultural building to include cubicle & straw bedded livestock housing, slatted slurry storage tanks and soiled water/parlour washings tank along with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4454
11 Mar 2025Withdrawn
Permission for dwelling house and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4420
17 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the erection of a dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4233
31 Jul 2024Refused
Permission for the erection of a dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5461
21 Mar 2024Withdrawn
Permission to demolish rear porch and adjoining shed of existing dwelling and demolish detached outbuilding. Permission is also sought to construct extension & make minor alterations to fenestrations of existing dwelling and replace existing septic tank with proprietary treatment plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4500
27 Oct 2023Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6181
21 Dec 2022Withdrawn
The construction of a dwelling-house, domestic garage, on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6848
7 Mar 2022Conditional
The construction of 3 No. domestic dwelling houses, 3 No. individual on-site wastewater treatment systems, 3 No. vehicular public road entrances and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4487
19 Nov 2021Conditional
Permission to retain front and rear single storey extensions to two storey farmhouse.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/7131
9 Nov 2021Incompleted application
To retain front and rear single storey extensions to two storey farmhouse.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/7026
26 Jul 2021Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6055
26 Apr 2021Withdrawn
To demolish existing 2-storey dwelling house, to demolish existing detached domestic garage, to construct new 2-storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage, to install new sewerage treatment system and decommission existing septic tank and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5104
21 Nov 2019Conditional
Retention of alterations, extension, and porch all to existing dwelling (change of plan from that permitted under PL. Reg. No. 11/6111), and all ancillary works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/6772
3 Dec 2018Conditional
Construct dwelling and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7149
13 Sept 2018Conditional
Permission for the following: (a) Demolition of milking parlour, (b) Construction of agricultural building to include milking parlour, livestock handling facilities, ancillary rooms along with unroofed collecting yards and slatted slurry tank and slatted soiled water/parlour washings tank, (c) Erection of meal bin and water storage tank, along with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6429
24 Jan 2018Conditional
The installation of a septic tank and percolation to serve existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4179
25 Jan 2017Conditional
Construct a cattle house with 2 no. slatted slurry tanks, 2 no. concrete aprons, extend existing walled silo and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4135
18 Mar 2016Conditional
Construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, entrance, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4626
2 Jul 2014Conditional
Construction of cattle underpass beneath the public road and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5416
24 May 2012Conditional
Extend existing cattle house, construct a slatted slurry tank, concrete apron and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5104
15 Dec 2011Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6603
26 Oct 2011Unconditional
Completion of dwellinghouse as permitted under planning reg 06/12865
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6288
4 Oct 2011Conditional
Demolition of existing attached garage (16.64 square metres) and modifications and extension to existing house to include: [a] removal of existing porch canopy from east facing elevation, [b] construction of 2.13 square metre porch and installation of 2 no. rooflights to east-facing elevation, [c] construction of 29.86 square metre (total floor space) two storey extension to north-facing elevation, [d] construction of 22.68 square metre single storey extension and replacement of existing rooflight with 2 no. rooflights to west elevation, [e] replacement of uPVC cladding on all dormer windows with smooth plaster, [f] replacement of all dormer glasing with new glazing and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6111
12 Aug 2009Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6692
The 25 most recent of 47 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 Farranhavane.
Recorded monuments
- CO096-047 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material visible, according to landowner, when field is ploughed. Ballymahane River to S. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO096-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Low rise indicates line of bank with gentle slope down towards centre (diam. c. 34m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO096-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. According to Ó Ríordáin (1931, 60) 'circular hollow in the field and a bend in the fence, indicates the former existence of a lios here'. Field known locally as "Pairc an Leasa". No visible surface trace, however, "dark patch" noted by landowner when field ploughed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- St Martin's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached T-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, built c.1800, having single-bay transept, four-bay elevation to south-east and porch to north-west elevation. Later lean-to sacristy extension to north-west elevation of transept. Pitched artificial slate roofs with cut limestone bellcote and cross. Rendered walls throughout. Round-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having lead-lined stained glass windows. Oculus window openings to gables having lead-lined stained glass windows. Square-headed door openings with uPVC doors. Rendered enclosing wall with square-profile gate piers to pedestrian entrance having cross finials and wrought-iron gate. Grotto dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary to south-west. Associated graveyard located to south-east, having rendered boundary walls and square-profile gate piers with wrought-iron gates.
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 Farranhavane, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farranhavane.
- 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 Farranhavane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farranhavane · Fearann Uí Chiabháin
- Area
- 2,024,314 m² (202.43 ha, 500.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemartin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Templemartin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 836 people lived in 262 households in the Templemartin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curravordy, Finnis, Gurteen, Lisnabanree, Roughgrove East, Roughgrove West
- Placenames
- Farranhavane 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.