Ferm

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ferm, from 756 m² to 224,547 m² (22.45 ha, 55.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Dec 2009Refused

  Change of use of part of existing dwellinghouse from living accommodation to pre-school and after school child care facility

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7983

• 16 Nov 2007Conditional

  Extension to milking parlour, construction of roofed dairy holding yard with flow channels and associated ancillaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12434

• 22 Oct 2007Incompleted application

  Extension to existing milking parlour and construction of roofed dairy holding yard with flow channels and all associated ancillaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11817

• 6 Jun 2007Conditional

  Demolition of open dungstead and construction of easy feed cubicle house with double slatted tanks and associated ancillaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8406

• 23 Jan 2007Conditional

  Construction of overground slurry tower with associated sump tank, silage base and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4340

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

• CO038-060 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Permission to visit site refused. According to local information, removed c. 1983 during field fence clearance. Broker (1937, 31) recorded 'gallán, 5ft high and over 11ft in girth; 5 ton weight overground'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO038-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, above NW-facing slope. Field known as fort field; also local tradition of souterrain (9024). No visible surface trace. Possibly same fort as recorded by Broker (1937, 48) on Tim Connell's land, described as 'one eight acre, levelled completely about 1875. Field still called Pairc an Leasa'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO038-139 Souterrain
  Description

  In possible ringfort (8699). According to local information, collapse occurred in past possibly indicating position of souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO038-141 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Stone (H 0.95m; 0.7m x 0.43m) narrows towards top, long axis NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Ferm.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ferm.

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 Ferm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ferm · An Fheirm

Area

431,777 m² (43.18 ha, 106.69 acres)

Civil parish

Drishane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Coomlogane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coomlogane electoral division: 995 people in 401 households; 72% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagloor, Ballydaly, Derreen, Tober

Placenames

Ferm 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.