Farrankeal

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrankeal, from 35 m² to 250,383 m² (25.04 ha, 61.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 1 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house along with installation of a new treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6634

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for Retention of the following 1) The conservatory to the side of the existing dwelling, 2) The porch to the front of the existing dwelling 3) The detached domestic garage 4) Changes to the site boundaries from that granted under planning reference 340/98.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/6314

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  To construct a public footpath, roadside boundaries, pedestrian crossing & all associated service & site works (From Knocknagree GAA pitch entrance to the village)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5164

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4065

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  (A) To renovate existing club rooms to include a referee’s room, wheelchair accessible toilet and new metal roof covering. (B) To construct an extension onto existing club rooms consisting of a new gymnasium, meeting room, dressing rooms, kitchenette, treatment room and male and female toilet facilities. (C) To remove existing septic tank and permission to install a new treatment unit and polishing filter unit and all site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5980

• 4 Sept 2020Conditional

  a) Construct a community centre comprising of a multipurpose use hall, meeting rooms and cafe-shop, incorporating all ancillary facilities, b) carry out all site works associated with the provision of site access, parking and services attached to the proposed development , c) provide a public playground and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5918

• 28 Jul 2020Incompleted application

  a) Construct a community centre comprising of a multipurpose use hall, meeting rooms and cafe-shop, incorporating all ancillary facilities, b) carry out all site works associated with the provision of site access, parking and services attached to the proposed development, c) provide a public playground and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5598

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, mechanical aeration system, soil polishing filter and all associated services and site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4744

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  To construct dwelling house, domestic garage, mechanical aeration system, intermittent filter & polishing filter & all associated services & site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4113

• 18 Dec 2019Incompleted application

  To construct dwelling house, domestic garage, mechanical aeration system, intermittent filter and polishing filter and all associated services and site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7014

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  Change of use from disused food supermarket to Montessori Preschool, to remove hardwood shopfront from front elevation.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4547

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house (change of house plan from that previously granted under planning ref: 16/7243)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5318

• 21 Dec 2016Conditional

  To demolish an existing dwellinghouse and out buildings and to construct a dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7243

• 15 Apr 2014Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse with an attached garage, wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4758

• 7 Feb 2013Conditional

  Change of use of existing disused building formerly used as a shop/post office to family restaurant with fast food takeaway facility, internal and elevational alterations and alterations to shop front

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4198

• 18 Jan 2013Incompleted application

  Change of use of existing building from shop/post office to family restaurant with the facility for consumption of food off the premises and alterations to existing shop front

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4077

• 30 Dec 2010Conditional

  Permission for construction of detached domestic garage and retention of dwelling as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8832

• 23 Dec 2010Conditional

  Retention of existing credit union sub-office as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 10/8810

• 17 Nov 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of a detached domestic garage and retention of modifications and changes to elevations of dwelling from that permitted under planning ref. no. 06/12177, including minor alterations and relocation of doors and windows

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8475

• 18 Nov 2008Conditional

  Dwelling, garage, entrance and wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9726

• 25 Sept 2008Incompleted application

  Dwelling, garage, entrance & wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9039

• 16 Jul 2008Conditional

  Demolition of existing extensions to front, side and rear of dwelling and bar and construction of new entrance porch to front of dwelling, extension to side and rear of dwelling and bar, new vehicular entrance to the rear of the site, new boundary wall and gate and associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7915

• 10 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Dwelling, garage and wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7804

• 20 Mar 2008Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5566

• 6 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5245

The 25 most recent of 50 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO029-024 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on S side of well (now drained). Mound of burnt material (15m E-W; 14m N-S; H 0.6m); mound highest on W side. According to local information, mound was formerly higher. 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

• CO029-025 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In level pasture, overlooking Blackwater valley to W. Stone (H 1.63m; 1.48m x 0.87m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis N-S. About 15 cup marks on W face (average diam. 0.07m). 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

• CO029-087 Church
  Description

  To N of Knocknagree fair green. Cruciform church (long axis E-W), transepts on E side; early-19th-century in appearance. Pointed window opes throughout; bellcote atop W gable. One-storey gabled sacristy to E, large modern porch entrance on S transept. A-framed roof; wooden galleries in transepts and W end of nave. 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

• Knocknagree Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built c. 1820, facing west and comprising four-bay nave with shallow chancel, flat-roofed porch to south with projecting entrance, lower pitched sacristy to east, and gabled porches to south wall of nave and to north gable of north transept. Pitched slate roofs. Painted roughcast rendered walls having smooth render plinth course. Pointed arch rendered openwork bellcote to west gable having iron cross finial. Pointed window openings to nave and main porch, having render surrounds and sills and stained glass. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to sacristy. Pointed arch door openings with render surrounds having timber battened double-leaf doors, main door having concrete steps to front. Inner porch door having brass fittings. Ceiling comprising exposed A-frame roof. Interior has painted rendered walls, with marble altar to east end, marble baptismal font to west end, and timber Stations of the Cross. Graveyard adjacent to west having some ornate grave markers. Painted roughcast rendered rectangular elevation piers and having cast-iron gates and railings, with limestone plaque to local poet against rendered boundary wall.

• Knocknagree Garda Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey Garda Station, built 1939, having five-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor, single-storey three-bay extension to east, and flanking single-bay extensions to south-west and north-west. Pitched artificial slate roof having painted roughcast rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to first floor and tripartite eight-over-twelve pane and one three-over-six pane to ground floor, and three-over-six pane windows to south-west block. Recent timber panelled doors to flanking blocks. Rubble stone boundary walls to garden to front, with rubble stone piers and replacement metal 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Farrankeal.

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.

No address of the register names Farrankeal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Farrankeal · An Fearann Caol

Area

1,661,932 m² (166.19 ha, 410.67 acres)

Civil parish

Nohavaldaly, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Knocknagree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knocknagree electoral division: 610 people in 257 households; 84% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnard (Co. Kerry), Knocknagree, Knocknaseed (Co. Kerry), Lisheen (Co. Kerry), Park, Scrahan, Shanbally

Placenames

Farrankeal 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.