Farranstephen
Townland in the civil parish of Clogherbrien, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 18 ha
- 45 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 278 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Landscape Protection
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranstephen, from 12 m² to 430 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 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
4 Jun 2025Conditional
Retention permission to retain the flat roof extension at the west side of the dwelling house, and the raised roof height over the garage at the rear of the house
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560474
18 Apr 2023Conditional
(A) PROVISION OF AN MV SUBSTATION BUILDING (C.60SQ.M, 4.6M HIGH) AND AN MV MODULAR STRUCTURE ( C. 12SQ.M, 3.4 M HIGH) BOTH BEING WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND WITHIN THE "CONSENTED BALLYENAGHTY SOLAR FARM" (B) A C. 2.3KM 10KV UNDERGROUND CABLE INSTALLATION BETWEEN THE " CONSENTED BALLYENAGHTY SOLAR FARM AND THE EXISTING ESB BALLYRICKARD 38KV SUBSTATION VIA THE KERRIES ROAD AND SPA ROAD AND (C) ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A DURATION OF 10 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23425
29 Mar 2018Conditional
ALTER AND EXTEND THE HOUSE TO THE SIDE AND REAR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18288
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 Farranstephen.
Recorded monuments
- KE029-111 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farranstephen.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_88 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Farranstephen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Farranstephen
- Area
- 180,274 m² (18.03 ha, 44.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clogherbrien, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Clogherbrien, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clogherbrien electoral division: 1,535 people in 561 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyenaghty, Carrigeendaniel, Kerries East, Knockanacuig, Lohercannan
- Placenames
- Farranstephen 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.