Farrantoreen
Townland in the civil parish of Killorglin, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 136.1 ha
- 336 acres
- Land parcels
- 497
- registered freehold, median 336 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 40
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
497 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrantoreen, from 2 m² to 61,033 m² (6.1 ha, 15.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 373 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M4Built up Area (Built up area)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use, Opportunity Site (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre/Opportunity Site (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism & Related (Tourism and related)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.6Car Park (Other transport/general uses)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 0 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
9 Jul 2026Conditional
(a)Planning permission to construct a new extension to rear of the existing dwelling. (b)Permission to demolish the existing storage shed at rear of the existing dwelling house with all associated site works at No 29 st james gardens Killorglin Co kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660640
11 Jun 2026N/a
(a)Planning permission to construct a new extension to rear of the existing dwelling. (b)Permission to demolish the existing storage shed at rear of the existing dwelling house with all associated site works at No 29 st james gardens Killorglin Co kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660532
9 Jun 2026Conditional
Permission to: A) Re-locate existing vehicular entrance including realignment of northern boundary wall, B) Construct 2 no. extensions consisting of a front entrance porch and a rear kitchen extension, C) Carry out alterations to the elevations including revision to existing dormer roof window and gable on the northern elevation, construct a new dormer roof type window and install new Velux windows on the southern elevation, replace all windows and external doors including revisions to existing window and door openings generally, D) Change the use of existing garage to use as a living room, E) Carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2660518
9 Apr 2026Refused
Planning Permission to 1) Renovate former dwelling 2) Construct a dormer extension to the rear of the former dwelling including link corridor 3) Install a new septic tank and polishing filter 4) All ancillary site works including new driveway and entrance walls
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660314
7 Apr 2026Conditional
(i) Retention Permission to retain existing foundation and rising blockwork, and (ii) Permission to complete project and erect cabin type classroom on existing prepared rising blockwork and construct all associated siteworks and services
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660308
12 Feb 2026Conditional
for (i) permission to add stair/lift access extension (ii) permission to change use of first floor from office to doctors surgery (iii) permission for layout changes on ground floor, (iv) permission to add fire escape stairs to rear and (v) permission for elevation changes, all at existing medical building at Daly’s Lane, Main Street, Killorglin.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660100
29 Jan 2026N/a
Planning Permission to 1) Renovate existing dwelling 2) Construct a dormer extension to the rear of the existing dwelling including link corridor 3) Install a new septic tank and polishing filter 4) All ancillary site works including new driveway and entrance walls
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660058
14 Oct 2025Conditional
retain existing dwelling house and garage as constructed
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560940
23 Apr 2024Conditional
REDEVELOPMENT OF PREMISES TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:(1) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF GROUND FLOOR SHOP TO APARTMENT WHILE MAINTAINING A RETAIL SPACE TO FRONT OF BUILDING ON GROUND FLOOR (2) CHANGE OF USE OF FIRST FLOOR FROM SHOP STORE TO TWO APARTMENTS (3) REDEVELOP EXISTING RESIDENTIAL SPACE ON 2ND FLOOR TO A SINGLE APARTMENT (4) CONSTRUCT STAIRWELL EXTENSION (5) DEVELOP BALCONY AREAS AT 1ST AND 2ND FLOOR LEVELS (6) MINOR DEMOLITION WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED STIE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 3 homes · Kerry County Council, 2460245
8 Apr 2024N/a
Invalid- REDEVELOPMENT OF PREMISES TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING; (I) CHANGE OF USE OF GROUND FLOOR FROM SHOP TO TWO APARTMENTS (II) CHANGE OF USE OF FIRST FLOOR FROM SHOP STORE TO TWO APARTMENTS (III) REDEVELOP EXISTING RESIDENTIAL SPACE ON 2ND FLOOR TO A SINGLE APARTMENT AND (IV) RECONSTRUCT INTERNAL STAIRS TO INCLUDE RAISED STAIRWELL HOUSING, AT 2ND FLOOR LEVEL ALL AT MAIN STREET, KILLORGLIN, CO. KERRY.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460202
22 Feb 2024Conditional
Carry out renovations to existing dwelling house incorporating (1) the removal of a chimney (2) block up existing gable window and construct a new gable window (3) replacement of the existing roof (4) demolish existing front bay window section and replace and extend same across the frontage.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460103
1 Feb 2024N/a
Invalid-Carry out renovations to existing dwelling house incorporating (1) the removal of a chimney (2) replacement of the existing roof, (3) demolish existing front bay window section and replace and extend same across the frontage.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460058
13 Dec 2023Conditional
THE RENOVATION, PARTIAL DEMOLITION, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION INCORPORATING A COMMON STAIRCASE TO REAR OF THE BUILDING TO SERVE THIS AND ADJOINING BUILDING TO SOUTH AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DERELICT OFFICES TO 2 NO. ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS, TO INCLUDE THE REMOVAL OF ENTIRE ROOF AND WALL PLATE AND REPLACE ROOF STRUCTURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231169
13 Dec 2023Conditional
RENOVATION, PARTIAL DEMOLITION, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION, AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DERELICT OFFICES TO 2 NO. ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS, TO INCLUDE THE REMOVAL OF ENTIRE ROOF AND WALL PLATE AND REPLACE ROOF STRUCTURE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 231170
7 Nov 2023Conditional
(1) CHANGE DESIGN OF DWELLING HOUSES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED ON PLANNING REF 19/873 ON SITE NO.1-NO.32, FROM 3 AND 4 BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSES TO 3 BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSES ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231091
8 Jun 2023Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH FORMER PUBLIC HOUSE "P.T. O SULLIVAN" AND THE ADJOINING PROPERTY. BOTH ARE TWO STOREY BUILDINGS WITH FORMER COMMERCIAL UNITS ON THE GROUND FLOORS AND LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO THE REAR AND OVERHEAD, (B) RECONSTRUCT A NEW THREE STOREY BUILDING, CONTAINING A SINGLE COMMERCIAL UNIT ON THE GROUND FLOOR WITH AN APARTMENT TO THE REAR AND TWO APARTMENTS OVERHEAD, ONE ON EACH FLOOR, EACH WITH A BALCONY TO THE REAR, (C) THE DEVELOPMENT ALSO INCLUDES AN ENTRY FROM STREET LEVEL TO ACCESS THE APARTMENTS OVERHEAD AND A SEPARATE SIDE ENTRANCE TO ACCESS THE GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT AND THE REAR GARDEN
Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 23661
23 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE REAR OF THE EXISTING CHILDCARE BUILDING COMPRISING OF A NEW TOILET BLOCK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 221007
7 Jul 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOICIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22725
20 Apr 2022Conditional
(A) RETAIN WORKS CARRIED OUT TO DATE ON NICK'S RESTAURANT AND BAR (PROTECTED STRUCTURE NUMBER - RPS KY-056-009) (B) RETAIN EXISTING RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT ON SECOND FLOOR AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) COMPLETE RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO FLOOR LAYOUTS IN NICKS RESTAURANT AND BAR (PROTECTED STRUCTURE NUMBER - RPS KY-056-009) COMPRISING OF MODIFICATION TO STAIRS, ALTERATIONS TO FIRST FLOOR INCLUDING ADDITIONAL STAIRS FOR FIRE ESCAPE AND RELOCATION OF TOILETS. (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF NICK'S RESTAURANT AND BAR (PROTECTED STUCTURE NUMBER - RPS KY-056-009) COMPRISING OF ADDITIONAL TOILETS AND KEG STORE AND ADDITIONAL FIRE ESCAPE (C) ALTERATIONS AND RESTORATIONS TO FRONT AND REAR ELEVATION INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF SOME WINDOWS (PROTECTED STRUCTURE NUMBER - RPS KY-056-009) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22418
11 Feb 2022N/a
CONSTRUCT TOILETS AND KEG STORAGE FOR USE BY NICKS RESTAURANT AND BAR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22136
21 Jul 2021Conditional
CARRY OUT THE FOLLOWING DEVELOPMENTS AT THE EXISTING STORE, (1) TO CONSTRUCT A CAFÉ/RESTAURANT (2) CONSTRUCT AN EXTERNAL CUSTOMER SEATING AREA (3) ALTER EXISTING ENTRANCE/EXIT TO N70 (4) CONSTRUCT A BUS PARKING AREA (5) MAKE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING CAR PARK LAYOUT (6) CONSTRUCT NEW PORTAL FRAME TYPE STRUCTURE TO PARTIALLY REPLACE EXISTING POLY TUNNELS AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21830
4 Jun 2021Conditional
CHANGE USE FROM EXISTING FLORIST SHOP TO A RESIDENTIAL SITTING ROOM AREA WITH ALTERATIONS TO FRONT OF PROPERTY AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21608
17 Feb 2021Conditional
DEMOLISH TWO 3-STOREY SHOPS, ADJACENT TO MULVIHILLS PHARMACY AND CONTAINING OVERHEAD RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND RECONSTRUCT WITH A SMALL RETAIL UNIT ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND A SINGLE APARTMENT ON EACH OF THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS. THE RECONSTRUCTION WILL ALSO INCORPORATE A CARRAIGE/AMBULANCE ENTRANCE TO ALLOW ACCESS TO THE MEDICAL CENTRE AT THE REAR, FROM MAIN STREET. EXTEND MULVIHILLS PHARMACY BUILDING TO INCORPORATE ENTRANCE LOBBY AND LIFT (TO SERVICE PROPOSED APARTMENTS AND EXISTING MULVIHILL PHARMACY BUILDING ), AN EXTENSION TO THE DISPENSARY AND OFFICE SPACE ON THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS. CONVERT A ROOM IN THE DALYS LANE MEDICAL CENTRE TO TREATMENT ROOM AND INSTALL EMERGENCY ACCESS TO AMBULANCE BAY. CONSTRUCT A COVERED AMBULANCE BAY AT THE MEDICAL CENTRE AND DEVELOP THE ENCLOSED SITE TO CREATE MEDICAL CENTRE RELATED PARKING.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21146
9 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF TWO STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING CRECHE BUILDING, AND EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING BUILDING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191046
19 Aug 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT THE FOLLOWING: (a) 26 NR 4 BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES (B) 28 NR 3 BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE AND (C) ACCESS ROADS AND SERVICES ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PATRICULARS SUBMITTED. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION/REVISED PLANS HAVE BEEN FURNISHED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, THE INFORMATION SUBMITTED RELATES TO (1) ARCHAEOLOGY, (2) BIODIVERSITY INCLUDING AN NIS (3) SITE DESIGN AND LAYOUT (4) WATER AND WASTEWATER INFRASTURCTURE (5) FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT (6) ROADS AND TRAFFIC (7) ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES
Permission, 32 homes · Kerry County Council, 19873
The 25 most recent of 40 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farrantoreen.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Michael's Church (Killorglin), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1816, with three-bay side elevation and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west gable end having battlemented parapet. Closed, 1997. Disused, 1998. Pitched slate roof with gable parapets. Limestone rubble stone walls. Rose window of five quatrefoils to east wall. Limestone ashlar surround to timber boarded door. Gateway, built c. 1820, to north comprising pair of rubble stone piers with iron gates.
- Garage, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay single-storey garage, dated 1916, on a rectangular plan. Roof not visible behind parapet. Rendered walls on moulded plinth with rusticated pilasters supporting ball finial-topped parapet on cornice on consoles. Rendered shopfront with rusticated pilasters supporting cornice on thumbnail beaded consoles. Full-height interior with mezzanine. Street fronted.
- Store/warehouse, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited end-of-terrace four-bay two-storey over basement former warehouse with dormer attic, built c. 1870, originally three-bay. Three-bay two-storey side elevation to west. Three-bay three-storey rubble stone-built rear elevation to east. Extensively renovated and extended to north in late twentieth century with single-bay two-storey flat-roofed bay and with timber pilaster shopfronts inserted to ground floor of both elevations having fluted pilasters and moulded cornices. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, hipped dormers with slate-hung cheeks, rendered chimneystacks and flat roof to north addition with parapet wall. Random rubble stone walls to east. Painted rendered walls to north and west. Limestone sills to timber two-over-two pane sliding sash windows to east wall. Pair of freestanding iron petrol pumps, c. 1950, to west, now disused.
- Store/warehouse, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted three-bay three-storey warehouse, built c. 1870, with single-bay full-height recessed loading bay to centre having segmental-arched openings and five-bay three-storey side elevation to south. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles and sandstone ashlar corbelled support at roof level with iron chute originally spanning across street. Rendered walls having projecting eaves band, render lettering to pediment and curvilinear springers. No sills and boarded shutters to openings. Timber double-leaf doors to loading bay at all levels. Freestanding rubble stone-built piers, built c. 1870, to west with remains of iron chute over. Section of iron chute over road, c. 1870, now removed.
- House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace gable-fronted single-bay three-storey house, built c. 1900, with shopfront to ground floor, now in residential use. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks to side wall and rear gable and having cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted rendered walls having fascia signboards at ground floor with elaborate carved consoles as stop ends and having dentilated cornice. Group of triple round-headed windows at first floor, paired round-headed windows at second floor having render hood mouldings and timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows. Tripartite timber display window to ground floor with iron sill guard. Glazed door at ground floor with toplight. Street frontage, with lane to right
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_64 (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 Farrantoreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Farrantoreen
- Area
- 1,360,778 m² (136.08 ha, 336.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killorglin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Killorglin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killorglin electoral division: 4,670 people in 1,826 households; 66% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmoneel, Castleconway, Garrahadoo, Laharan, Rangue
- Placenames
- Farrantoreen 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.