Ferryfort

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ferryfort, from 1,815 m² to 293,460 m² (29.35 ha, 72.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ferryfort 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.

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6915

• 12 Feb 2008Conditional

  Construction of dormer extension to bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4694

• 30 Nov 2006Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12855

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ferryfort.

Recorded monuments

• CO006-090 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, c. 14m NNE of spring. Two adjacent mounds of burnt material (overall dims. 18m NNE-SSW; 9m ESE-WNW; H 0.8m). Possibly remains of larger mound which has been partially levelled. 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

• CO006-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 28m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map, with external fosse to E and outer bank WSW->N; outer bank maybe incorporated into field boundary system to SE and S. Levelled; raised interior survives as slight rise. Concentric earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m) remains E -> SW; low rise to NE. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ferryfort.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ferryfort, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Ferryfort · Lios na Foraire

Area

725,999 m² (72.6 ha, 179.4 acres)

Civil parish

Shandrum, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Allow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 191 households in the Allow electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim, Ballinla, Earlsfields, Knawhill, Knockaneda, Knockeen

Placenames

Ferryfort 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.