# Farranstephen, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clogherbrien, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 180,274 m² (18.03 ha, 44.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 278 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Landscape Protection, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clogherbrien, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/clogherbrien.md - Barony: Trughanacmy - Electoral division: Clogherbrien, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,535 people lived in 561 households in the Clogherbrien electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24798 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71292 - Centre: latitude 52.273589, longitude -9.73063 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranstephen, from 12 m² to 430 m²; 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1225246: 430 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225246.md - Parcel 4463850: 278 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463850.md - Parcel 1197604: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197604.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Landscape 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 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Jun 2025, Kerry County Council 2560474: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560474/0 - 18 Apr 2023, Kerry County Council 23425: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23425/0 - 29 Mar 2018, Kerry County Council 18288: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ALTER AND EXTEND THE HOUSE TO THE SIDE AND REAR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18288/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farranstephen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE029-111: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE029-111----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farranstephen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Farranstephen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_88, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_88.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranstephen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranstephen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranstephen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyenaghty: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyenaghty.md - Carrigeendaniel: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrigeendaniel.md - Kerries East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kerries-east.md - Knockanacuig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockanacuig.md - Lohercannan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lohercannan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranstephen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/farranstephen