Faghbane

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faghbane, from 619 m² to 225,565 m² (22.56 ha, 55.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Faghbane 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.

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION ON AGRICULTURAL LANDHOLDINGS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211121

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE067-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, on top of a hillock to the E of Killarney and 450m S of the Flesk River. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (OSAP, 2122-3) taken in 1989. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an elevation to the E of Killarney and 260m S of the Flesk River. A circular area (diam. c. 31m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m), totally obscured by dense overgrowth. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 and 1893-4 OS 6-inch maps and is visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on an aerial photograph (OSAP, 3748-47) taken in 1983. There is another rath (KE067-089----) c. 90m to the ESE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-035 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, overlooking the valley of the Flesk River. There are no visible remains of this stone. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, to the E of Killarney and c. 450m W of the Flesk River. A circular area (27m N-S; 26.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) with a flattened top, largely obscured by overgrowth and retained externally by a stone field wall E-WSW. There is a long slope on the internal face of the bank. The level interior is slightly raised and in pasture. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at E and there is also a break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at ENE. A field boundary abuts the bank at SE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-064 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  In pasture, on the SW bank of the Flesk River. The overgrown remains of a rectangular structure (18m NE-SW; 5.6m SE-NW) indicated by the lower courses of a rubble stone wall (T 1.05m; H 1.5m) with lime mortar, best preserved at SE. There is a depression in the interior at the S end. According to local information, this is part of a friary that was dismantled a number of years ago. A wall (T 0.55m; H 1m) runs to the SW from the river bank for c. 34m, passing within 2m of the NW side of the friary. A door ope (Wth 1m; H 2.2m) at the centre of this wall leads NW (L 10m) to a rectangular structure (2.5m N-S; 2m E-W) with stone walls (T 0.6m; H 1.8m), which is known locally as 'the flower house'. Two other cells described in the 1940s (ITA) in the immediate vicinity were not located. Stepping-stones occur in the river to the E and gave access across the river to a children's burial ground (KE067-071----) which is known as the 'friar's plot' (ITA). The Franciscans found a safe sanctuary here from the mother house at Muckross Abbey, up until 1780 (ITA). Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 256) refer to Faghbawn as a place of refuge for the friars. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope and c. 450m SW of a bend in the Flesk River. A raised circular area (diam. 32m) defined by a low discontinuous bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) with intervening short stretches of scarp, especially along the S arc. The external face of the bank is being eroded at N. Intermittent faint traces of a depression externally may indicate a fosse. The interior, in pasture, slopes down gently to the N. There is a cattle break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at W. Another rath (KE067-031----) lies c. 90m to the WNW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_239 (ZIP).

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 Faghbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Faghbane

Area

445,065 m² (44.51 ha, 109.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Coolies, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolies electoral division: 900 people in 301 households; 79% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clash, Dromhumper, Faghcullia, Sheheree

Placenames

Faghbane 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.