Farrannasheshery
Farrannasheshery is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Fearann na Seisrí.
- Area
- 124.2 ha
- 307 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 2,408 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrannasheshery, from 26 m² to 188,913 m² (18.89 ha, 46.68 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 Farrannasheshery 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
8 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for change of use of former school to dwelling house, permission for retention of 1 no. existing prefabricated building granted under 01/6414 to be used as storage/home office ancillary to the main dwelling house and also permission for conversion of former school to dwelling to include changes to internal layout and elevational changes to existing elevations together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4195
29 Dec 2023Incompleted application
Permission for change of use of former school to dwellinghouse, permission for retention of existing prefabricated buildings granted under planning ref no 01/6414 and also full planning permission for conversion of former school to dwelling house to include changes to internal layout and elevational changes to existing elevations together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6639
15 Nov 2023Incompleted application
Construct an agricultural shed for the storage of agricultural machinery for an agricultural contracting business and all associated site works. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 18/5046
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 23/6281
27 Sept 2021Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6633
20 Nov 2019Conditional
To construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, cattle handling yard with cattle crush, walled silo, concrete apron and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6766
8 Oct 2018Conditional
Construct dwelling, detached garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6647
10 Sept 2018Incompleted application
Construct dwelling, detached garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6389
27 Apr 2018Conditional
Construct an agricultural shed for the storage of agricultural machinery for an agricultural contracting business and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5046
16 Mar 2018Incompleted application
Construct an agricultural machinery shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4655
6 Mar 2015Conditional
Construct dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4439
4 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of two storey detached dwelling (225m2), detached garage (22.5m2), waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4668
27 Mar 2012Incompleted application
Construction of a new storey and a half detached dwelling (225m2) and the construction of a new detached garage )22.5m2), waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4591
20 Mar 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5576
26 Nov 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/12617
19 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of extension to school and new site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5183
27 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8432
19 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6470
23 Mar 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5793
21 Mar 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5713
3 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2911
6 Dec 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8938
22 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4541
10 Mar 2004Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1568
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 Farrannasheshery.
Recorded monuments
- CO109-028001 Fulacht fia
Description
Oval spread (15m N-S; 7m E-W) of burnt material in ploughed field. Stream to W; second fulacht fiadh (CO109-02802) 16m to SSW. Possible associated spread (14m N-S; 10m E-W) of charred stones, some fused together, occurs to SW. 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
- CO109-028002 Fulacht fia
Description
Oval spread of burnt material (15m N-S; 12m E-W) in ploughed field. Stream to W; second fulacht fiadh 16m to NNE (CO109-02801). Spread of charred stones, some fused together, occurs to N. 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
- CO109-087 Fulacht fia
Description
Oval spread (14m E-W; 10m N-S) of burnt material in level tillage. 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
- Murragh Bridge Murragh Bridge, bridge, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding six-arch rubble stone road bridge, built c.1740, spanning the Bandon River. Round-headed arches having dressed limestone voussoirs and soffits, springing from dressed limestone piers with V-cutwaters to south-west elevation. Rubble stone parapet walls spandrels and parapets with cast-iron bracing plates and rendered coping.
- Railway station, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached corrugated-iron five-bay single storey former railway station, built c.1865, having canopied platform to front (north) and single-bay extension to side (west). Now in use as house. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, having rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods, timber boards to canopy supported on steel brackets. Corrugated-iron walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with timber sills and surrounds throughout having timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with timber surrounds to front elevation, having double-leaf timber battened doors. Concrete platform to front. Located adjacent to former station master’s house.
- Station master's house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former station master’s house, built c.1865, having pitched roofed porch to front (north) with recent extensions to sides (east, west) and rear (south). Lean-to glass house to rear of side (west) extension. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods with timber clad eaves course and timber bargeboards to gables. Timber finials to gabled dormers and porch. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having timber sliding sash windows to rear, with replacement timber casement windows to front. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber battened door. Set within own grounds.
- Bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span bridge, built c.1865, spanning disused railway line. Elliptical three centred arch, having red brick and rubble stone voussoirs and rubble stone soffits. Rubble stone spandrels and parapet walls with dressed limestone coping.
- Roseville, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Camber-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows. Glazed porch addition surrounding round-headed doorcase. Outbuildings to rear. Rendered entrance sweep having cast-iron gates, piers and railings.
- Post box, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, installed c.1880, having V.R. insignia and crown, and S.E stamp with harp motif. Set within roughcast rendered wall of house. Located along roadside at crossroads.
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 Farrannasheshery, 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 Farrannasheshery.
- 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 Farrannasheshery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farrannasheshery · Fearann na Seisrí
- Area
- 1,241,829 m² (124.18 ha, 306.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Boulteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkitt East, Breaghna, Kilrush, Knockmacool, Murragh, Teadies Lower
- Placenames
- Farrannasheshery 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.