Farranfore

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranfore, from 49 m² to 310,151 m² (31.02 ha, 76.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Farranfore 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 Sept 2026N/a

  permission to (a) construct a car sales forecourt, (b) new valeting building, (c) new office unit, (d) associated signage, (e) new front boundary wall/fence and gate, (f) provision of vehicle display and customer parking, (g) connection to existing public sewer, (h) all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660831

• 20 Jul 2026N/a

  Full Planning Permission to (a) construct a car sales forecourt, (b) new valeting building, (c) new office unit, (d) associated signage, (e) new front boundary wall/fence and gate, (f) provision of vehicle display and customer parking, (g) connection to existing public sewer, (h) all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660682

• 17 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission to (a) construct a car sales forecourt, (b) new valeting building, (c) new office unit, (d) associated signage, (e) new front boundary wall/fence and gate, (f) provision of vehicle display and customer parking, (g) connection to existing public sewer, (h) all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660552

• 9 Aug 2023Conditional

  TO A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING, B) CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE, C) CONSTRUCT A VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE AND, D) CONSTUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23893

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  COMPLETE BUILDING A AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21156

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, SHED AND ASSOCIATED ON-SITE STRUCTURES (B) CONSTURCT 3 NO. DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES INCLUDING ACCESS ROAD

  Permission, 3 homes · Kerry County Council, 201194

• 21 Sept 2020Refused

  ERECT A NEW 21M MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED WORKS ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20863

• 24 Feb 2020Refused

  ERECT A NEW 24M LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20169

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  ALTER CONDITION NUMBER 2 OF PLANNING PERMISSION 17/464 PREVIOUSLY GRANTED. THE ALTERATION, IF GRANTED WILL ALTER THE OPENING HOURS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL SO AS TO NOW OPEN AT 08.00H AND CLOSE AT 18.30H, ALL LOCATED AT THE EXISTING FREESTANDING MODULAR STRUCTURE / PRE-SCHOOL

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19759

• 2 Apr 2019Conditional

  RETAIN 3 NO. TEMPORARY PORTACABINS WITHIN THE EXISTING AIRPORT COMPLEX TO FACILITATE A WAITING AREA FOR PASSENGERS AND OFFICE SPACE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION PURPOSES. THE PERMISSION SOUGHT IS FOR A PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19335

• 30 Oct 2018Conditional

  (I) ERECT A 16 TONNE MEAL SILO, (II) CONSTRUCT A NEW DAIRY / STORE AREA ADJACENT TO EXISTING SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT AND (III) ERECT A CANOPY AND FEED BARRIER ON GABLE OF AFOREMENTIONED EXISTING SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181057

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL COMPRISING OF A RESOURCE ROOM, A WC/SHOWER ROOM, CIRCULATION SPACE AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18396

• 24 Oct 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SEATED STAND AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171054

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW CANOPY ROOF STRUCTURE OVER EXISTING GRAIN INTAKE AREA (B) CONSTRUCT ENCLOSED MONO PITCHED ROOF EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING BULK OUT LOADING BUILDINGS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17723

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  FOR CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING FREESTANDING MODULAR STRUCTURE FROM RESOURCE ROOM, TO PRE-SCHOOL FACILITY

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17464

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 Farranfore.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-042 Earthwork
  Description

  In level pasture, to the E of Farranfore railway junction. A roughly circular area (c. 19m WSW-ENE; c. 18m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m). The W sector is crossed by a NW-SE field boundary and drain. The perimeter is difficult to establish due to dense vegetation. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Farranfore Railway Station, railway station, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single- and two-storey early-Victorian railway station, dated 1859, comprising two-bay single-storey glazed central bay with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay to west and two-bay two-storey gabled advanced end block to east having three-bay side elevations. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, timber fascias to eaves and verges and ashlar chimneystack. Snecked limestone ashlar walls with hammered finish having rock-hewn finish to quoins, and smooth finish to projecting band at eaves, verges and to plinth. Swept-arch headed openings with raised and lugged limestone surrounds and keystones and having timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows. Double-leaf glazed doors. Flush surrounds to side and south openings. Blocked doorway with rock-hewn surround and steps on south elevation. Moulded cornices to waiting room and ticket office interior. Timber wainscoting, panelled doors and window cases to interior. Cast-iron neo-Classical fireplace to waiting room. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west. Single-arch cast-iron pedestrian bridge over railway line, built c. 1860, to east with pair of flights of steps. Detached single-bay single-storey over raised basement gable-fronted signal box with attic, built c. 1860, to west retaining original fenestration with flight of steps to entrance and three-bay side elevations. Detached five-bay double-height goods shed, built c. 1860, to west retaining original fenestration with single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to east. Detached single-bay single-storey limestone ashlar water tower, built c. 1860, to north on a square plan, now disused and partly derelict.

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Farranfore · An Fearann Fuar

Area

850,766 m² (85.08 ha, 210.23 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Molahiffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromore, Gearha, Killeagh, Knockaderry

Placenames

Farranfore 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.