Fahaduff
Fahaduff is a townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Fhaiche Dhubh.
- Area
- 290.7 ha
- 718 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 7,157 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fahaduff, from 13 m² to 713,209 m² (71.32 ha, 176.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Fahaduff 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
13 Dec 2021Conditional
RETAIN (I) TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING (II) SINGLE STOREY SUN ROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION (A) TO ALTER/RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (B) REMOVE GLASS STURCTURE FROM SUN ROOM AND REPLACE WITH MASONARY WALLS/WINDOWS AND TILED ROOF (C) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS (D) ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211432
9 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, NEW ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18688
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
- KE031-009 Enclosure
Description
Levelled enclosure surveyed in 1987 by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey and described as follows; 'Situated on a break in pastureland sloping down SW to a small stream cut valley which is running off in a southerly direction. There is a good view over the low-lying countryside extending to the south. High ground lies close to the NW, N & NE. The field fences in the area have been levelled and there is no surface remains'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 April 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fahaduff.
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 Fahaduff, 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 high, 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 Fahaduff.
- 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 Fahaduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Fahaduff · An Fhaiche Dhubh
- Area
- 2,906,976 m² (290.7 ha, 718.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Lackabaun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 435 people lived in 164 households in the Lackabaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahaneboy, Dooneen, Tooreenard, Tullagubbeen
- Placenames
- Fahaduff 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.