Faha

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faha, from 359 m² to 490,611 m² (49.06 ha, 121.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Faha 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.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  construct a public pay car park including associated site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660562

• 18 May 2026N/a

  Planning Permission to Construct a public pay car park including associated site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660433

• 19 May 2025Refused

  For the construction of a proposed storey and a half dwelling house, Construction of detached domestic garage, Formation of new vehicular site entrance, The installation and connection to a proposed wastewater treatment system, Formation of proposed boundary treatments, Landscaping, Patio areas and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560419

• 9 Feb 2018Conditional

  (A) UPGRADE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ACCESS ROAD TO A SUITABLE STANDARD TO SERVE AS THE ACCESS TO THE EXISTING CARAVAN PARK, (B) CHANGE THE USE OF THE EXISTING CARAVAN PARK ACCESS ROAD TO SERVE ONLY THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (PLANNING REF. NO. 17/808), (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1899

• 17 Aug 2017Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE EXISTING STRUCTURE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES ,(B)RETAIN CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF COFFEE SHOP TO DWELLING HOUSE,(C) RETAIN CONVERSION OF ATTIC TO DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO CHANGE USE OF PART OF COFFEE SHOP TO DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 17808

• 14 Jun 2017Conditional

  CREATE WALKWAYS (A) FROM BEHY BRIDGE TO INCHEREA CROSS AT FAHA AND (B)FROM THE RETREAT LODGES TO ROSSBEIGH AT ROSSBEHY BOTH ADJACENT AND PARALLEL TO THE R564 TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17561

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE063-006 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in Faha Wood, this stone-built souterrain, 'Cave' on the second edition of the OS maps, comprises two short passageways connected by a creepway (Rynne, forthcoming). It is not now accessible. The souterrain became waterlogged and was infilled in the 1970s (local information). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 878. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Faha · Faiche

Area

1,148,095 m² (114.81 ha, 283.7 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanbehy electoral division: 1,269 people in 465 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curra, Drom, Kilnabrack Lower, Kilnabrack Upper, Rossbehy

Placenames

Faha 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.