Fahavane
Fahavane is a townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Fhaiche Bhán.
- Area
- 146.1 ha
- 361 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Open Space, Park
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fahavane, from 11 m² to 321,462 m² (32.15 ha, 79.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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
- G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 May 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to 1) Renovate existing dwelling 2) Replace all existing windows and doors throughout 3) Raise and extend side extension roof and install new roof covering 4) Replace the pitched roof covering 5) External alterations inclusive of changing side extension double door to a window, new windows at the sides of the extension and new window to the rear of the main dwelling 6) All ancillary site works at Fahavane, Kilflynn, Co. Kerry, V92 N2X4
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2660426
26 Sept 2025N/a
REDIII: The development will consist of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 152.6 hectares consisting of the following: c. 449,366 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-6507, R557, and L-2034 public roads, 3no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) locations associated with the underground cable route; a total of 5 no. solar farm site entrances (1no. from the R557 public road, 3no. from the L-6507 public road and 1no. from the L-10562 public road); access gates; 5no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 28no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 7no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560875
29 May 2024Conditional
Retention Permission to retain agricultural storage shed, with all associated site-works
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460338
23 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INFILTRATION/TREATMENT AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22882
10 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL A TRICEL WASTEWATER PUMPED UNIT AND SANDCELL TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211275
8 Sept 2020Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCT AN OVER GROUND SLURRY STORAGE TOWER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS. ALL WORK TO BE CARRIED OUT
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20815
7 Jun 2017Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCT A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH A SINGLE STOREY CAR PORT AREA. (2) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND COMPLETE ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17534
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fahavane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fahavane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fahavane.
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 Fahavane, 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 Fahavane.
- 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 Fahavane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Fahavane · An Fhaiche Bhán
- Area
- 1,460,653 m² (146.07 ha, 360.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilflyn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Kilflyn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 264 people lived in 103 households in the Kilflyn electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconnell, Castletown, Cloonnafinneela, Knockbrack East, Knockbrack West, Knocknacaska, Knocknahila, Rea
- Placenames
- Fahavane 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.