Foiladaun
Foiladaun is a townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Faill an Deamhain.
- Area
- 133.5 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 26,948 m² (2.69 ha, 6.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foiladaun, from 3,660 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres) to 428,887 m² (42.89 ha, 105.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Foiladaun 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
19 Oct 2012Incompleted application
Amend the permission granted under An Bord Pleanala Decision PL04.217191 (Planning Reg no. 06/4439) for 5 no. wind turbines. The amendments to consist of an increase in heights of turbines from 121m to 126.5m (ground to tip height), realignment of the permitted road layout, relocation of the electrical substation, realignment of hardstanding to Turbine no. 1 and associated site development works. The application also involves the installation of an 80m Permanent Meteorological Mast with access road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6194
24 Feb 2011Unconditional
Completion of windfarm consisting of 5 no. wind turbines, electrical control building, new internal site tracks, extension to existing tracks, storage compound and associated site works granted under reg. no. 06/4439
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/4361
26 Oct 2007Conditional
Retention of underground effluent tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11946
7 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of concrete walled silo and underground effluent tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10378
31 Jan 2006Conditional
Construction of windfarm comprising of 6 no. wind turbines (80m hub height and 82m blade diameter), an electrical control building, new internal site tracks and extension to existing site tracks, storage compound and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4439
20 Jan 2005Conditional
slatted beef unit and silage base
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/193
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 Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foiladaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foiladaun.
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 Foiladaun, 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 Foiladaun.
- 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 Foiladaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Foiladaun · Faill an Deamhain
- Area
- 1,335,334 m² (133.53 ha, 329.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Clonfert East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 355 people lived in 137 households in the Clonfert East electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glasheenanargid, Glenacarney, Glennakeel South, Glennaknockane, Taurbeg
- Placenames
- Foiladaun 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.