Faunmore
Faunmore is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Fán Mór.
- Area
- 105.3 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 679 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 38
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faunmore, from 14 m² to 690,160 m² (69.02 ha, 170.54 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 Faunmore 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
12 Dec 2023Refused
Construction of dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/706
11 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission for extension to dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/451
13 Nov 2019Conditional
Retention of domestic garage and dwelling house (change of design to house permitted under planning 06/1227) and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/726
11 Jan 2019Conditional
Permission for retention and completion of partially-constructed 2 no. detached dwelling houses, permission for installation of 2 no. individual on-site wastewater treatment systems, permission for realignment and widening of the adjacent L47039 public road and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/11
21 Dec 2018Incompleted application
Permission is sought for retention and completion of partially-constructed 2 no. detached dwelling houses, permission for installation of 2 no. individual packaged wastewater treatment plants discharging to public sewer, permission for realignment and widening of the adjacent L47039 public road and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/806
20 Dec 2017Withdrawn
Retention and completion of partially-constructed 2no. detached dwelling houses and permission for installation of 2no. individual packaged wastewater treatment plants discharging to public sewer, permission for realignment and widening of the adjacent L47039 public road and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/801
4 Dec 2017Incompleted application
Retention and completion of partially-constructed 2 no. detached dwelling houses, permission for installation of 2 no. individual packaged wastewater treatment plants discharging to public sewer, permission for realignment and widening of the adjacent L47039 public road and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/767
8 Jul 2016Conditional
Retention and completion of partially constructed 2no. detached dwelling houses, permission for installation of 2no. individual septic tanks discharging to public sewer and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/438
24 Apr 2012Unconditional
Construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/268
13 Aug 2010Conditional
Permission for the following works to services building, previous planning reference 04/9151: (a) change of use from services building to dwelling, (b) change of site boundaries, (c) construction of extension to rear and (d) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/561
16 Jul 2010Refused
Construction of a new dwelling house together with detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/507
7 Jul 2010Incompleted application
Construction of a new dwelling house together with detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/481
5 May 2010Unconditional
25 no. dwelling houses and 1 no. service building in 3 phases (15 no. dwellings to be used for short term letting)
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/326
11 Jul 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1301
10 Mar 2008Conditional
Change of use of house numbers 1 to 12 from short term letting to owner-occupier use, granted under planning reg: 04/9151
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/440
8 Feb 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, installation of septic tank system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/246
30 Nov 2007Refused
Dwelling house, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2985
19 Oct 2007Conditional
(a) Retention of detached domestic garage/store; (b) Permission for construction of 2no. extensions to existing bungalow which consists of (i) Bedroom extension to side elevation, (ii) Conservatory extension to front elevation and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2682
20 Sept 2007Conditional
Install treatment plant and percolation area to serve dwellinghouse granted under planning reg: 04/2554
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2465
18 Apr 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1035
26 Mar 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/842
2 Mar 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/574
5 Sept 2006Withdrawn
Construct 4no. dwellinghouses for short term letting
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1791
4 Aug 2006Incompleted application
4no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1535
23 Jun 2006Conditional
Two storey dwelling, septic tank and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1227
The 25 most recent of 38 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
- Special Area of Conservation: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102
Recorded monuments
- CO129-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hillock overlooking Dunmanus Bay to S. Subcircular enclosure OS 6-inch map (1841), incorporated into field fence system to N and E. Field fences to W and N respect site. No other 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
- CO129-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E shoulder of hillock. Circular, slightly raised, area (27.8m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H c. 2m) with low bank (int. H 0.3m) for short section to SE. Wall atop scarp SSW->NW and N->NE. Gap (Wth 2.1m) to W. External fosse to NW (D 0.4m). Cultivation ridges cross interior on N-S axis. 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 Faunmore.
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 Faunmore, 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 high, 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 Faunmore.
- 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 Faunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Faunmore · An Fán Mór
- Area
- 1,053,289 m² (105.33 ha, 260.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Seefin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 351 people lived in 140 households in the Seefin electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardahill, Carravilleen, Farranamanagh, Gortnakilly, Kilcrohane, Raferigeen
- Placenames
- Faunmore 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.