Farran

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farran, from 193 m² to 430,214 m² (43.02 ha, 106.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Farran 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.

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT A NEW MACHINERY STORAGE SHED THAT WILL ALSO ACCOMMODATE ROOF SOLAR PANELS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231079

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A CONCRETE SILAGE BASE WITH CONCRETE WORK APRON INCLUDING PRE-CAST CONCRETE PERIMETERS SILAGE WALLS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21179

• 28 Aug 2017N/a

  FILL LANDS WITH INERT WASTE SUCH AS : CLAY, STONE, SOIL AND CONCRETE (CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE), ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF LAND RECLAMATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17852

• 12 Jul 2017N/a

  FILL LANDS WITH INERT WASTE SUCH AS CLAY, STONE, SOIL AND CONCRETE (CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE) ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR THE PURPOSE OF LAND RECLAMATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17669

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farran.

Recorded monuments

• KE039-086 Church
  Description

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• KE039-086001 Graveyard
  Description

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• KE039-140 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Ecclesiastical enclosure described by O'Hare (2000, 83-4) as; 'The presence of this enclosure is not indicated on either edition of the OS 6 maps. The author was informed of its existence by Dr Daphne Pochin Mould, who first became aware of it during the course of an aerial flight over the area. The landowner stated to the author that he had always been aware of the existence of the enclosure the outline of which, he claimed, was never remarkable on the ground. It was, however, levelled still further about thirty years ago. Situated on a slight east-facing slope in a field of pasture, the view from the site is limited. The main Castleisland/Killarney road lies immediately to the west. The site of the former parish church and graveyard of Dysert is located a short distance to the north. On the OS 1st edition, an area of Glebe land is depicted on either side of this road, stretching between the enclosure and the church site. A low, curving, earthen bank is visible on the ground running from south-south-west through west to north to east. It is somewhat faint at both extremities, but nevertheless can be seen to enclose an area c. 80cm in overall diameter. The internal bank face is clearly visible along most of its length, surviving to a maximum height of 0.8m on the west-south west. The external bank face is, however, less well defined. The foundations of at least two hut sites are clearly visible within the interior. A sub-rectangular structure measuring 20m north-south and varying from c. 12m in width at its north end to c. 17m in width at the south, is roughly centrally-placed within the enclosure. The east bank/wall stands to a maximum height of 0.7m externally. A mound, c. 6m in diameter and standing to a maximum height of c. 0.35m, is located immediately inside the west bank/wall of this structure. A second possible hut site lies to the north of the first. It is sub-circular in outline (10m east-west; 9m north-south), and lies c. 11m inside the north bank of the enclosure. The enclosing bank/wall is best preserved on the north, south and west, less so on the east, where it survives to a maximum height of only 0.15m internally. The feature is clearly visible from the air. A further concentration of earthworks difficult to decipher, is concentrated within the west and north-west portions of the enclosure. There is also evidence of cultivation ridges, running in a north-south direction. On the west and north-west, two straight earthen banks run parallel with each other, from the external face of the enclosure, until interrupted by the field fence which borders the roadway on the west. The Irish term Diseart signified a "Desert or a secluded retreat (Dinneen 1927, 343). The term is common in placenames and may perhaps indicate the existence of an early hermitage in this area. The landowner informed the author that he recalled as a child seeing "a cave built of stone, in the field immediately to the north-east of this enclosure, running as he thought "back (i.e. north) towards Dysert church. The area is undulating, with a large outcrop of limestone visible with natural "passages" or "creeps" running beneath it. While it may be that the cave described by the landowner was a natural feature, it is possible that it was the site of a souterrain'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 April 2022

• KE039-140001 Hut site
  Description

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• KE039-140002 Hut site
  Description

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• KE039-140003 Hut site
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• KE039-140004 Hut site
  Description

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• KE039-140005 Hut site
  Description

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• KE039-141 Souterrain
  Description

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• KE039-142 Enclosure
  Description

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• KE039-142001 Souterrain
  Description

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Architectural heritage

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

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_235 (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 Farran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Farran

Area

491,298 m² (49.13 ha, 121.4 acres)

Civil parish

Dysert (Tralee Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Castleisland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleisland electoral division: 3,392 people in 1,351 households; 69% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anna Beg, Ballygree, Clashganniv, Kilcow, Lisheenbaun, Parknamulloge

Placenames

Farran 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.