Farranmareen
Farranmareen is a townland in the civil parish of Kinneigh, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Fearann Mháirín.
- Area
- 199.6 ha
- 493 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 6,403 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 43
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranmareen, from 121 m² to 499,512 m² (49.95 ha, 123.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Farranmareen 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
26 May 2025Conditional
Permission for Retention of a log cabin for the purpose of family leisure and home gym
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/288
6 Feb 2025Conditional
Construction of a new detached dwelling house (proposed change of house type design for previously permitted dwelling under Planning Reference 24/00083), and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/45
26 Feb 2024Conditional
Construction of a new detached dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/83
12 Jan 2024Incompleted application
Retention of a log cabin
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/10
24 Jul 2023Conditional
Construction of a new detached dwellinghouse with attached carport and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/413
13 Sept 2022Conditional
Construction of an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/576
23 Jan 2019Unconditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and detached garage and all associated site works.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/4111
18 Nov 2013Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6186
10 Apr 2013Withdrawn
Construction of a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 13/4628
25 Aug 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage and installation of small treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6121
16 Dec 2009Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7930
28 Aug 2009Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse (substitution of house plans previously granted under Planning Reg. No.08/9364) and construction of domestic garage including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6842
27 May 2009Conditional
Replacement of existing septic tank with mini-treatment unit, construction of new percolation area & carrying out of other ground drainage works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5734
20 Oct 2008Application finalised
Dwelling and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9364
14 Oct 2008Conditional
Construction of extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9282
7 Apr 2008Conditional
Demolition of single storey extension, construction of conservatory extension to rear, extension to front, raising of roof, conversion of attic to living accommodation, installation of 2 no. dormer and 5 no. velux windows and alterations to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5867
1 Apr 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5774
21 May 2007Conditional
Installation of roof lights to front and rear and retention of alterations and porch extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7971
11 Apr 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6913
26 Feb 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5418
26 Jan 2007Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4496
17 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Construct dwelling house with garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4246
21 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10802
14 Aug 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9735
2 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9451
The 25 most recent of 43 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 Farranmareen.
Recorded monuments
- CO095-051 Standing stone
Description
In pasture on S-facing slope. Two stones shown on both editions OS 6-inch map. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farranmareen.
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 Farranmareen, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farranmareen.
- 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 Farranmareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farranmareen · Fearann Mháirín
- Area
- 1,995,575 m² (199.56 ha, 493.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinneigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Bengour, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 318 people lived in 107 households in the Bengour electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bengour West, Garranereagh, Lissarourke, Moneynacroha, Rushfield
- Placenames
- Farranmareen 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.