Furhane

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Furhane, from 46 m² to 464,717 m² (46.47 ha, 114.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Furhane 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.

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A BUILDING TO INCLUDE (1) A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS; (2) SLATTED CALVING HOUSE; (3) FARM MACHINERY STORAGE SECTION AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211280

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• KE016-030 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This horseshoe-shaped mound is situated in good pastoral land. Its overall dimensions are 23m SW-NE x 24m NW-SE and it rises .5m above the surrounding land. There is a 4m gap to the NNE. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 72. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE016-031 Fulacht fia
  Description

  A low circular mound now marks this site, which produced some burnt stones when ploughed. Its overall dimensions are 13m N-S x 15m E-W and .5m in height. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 73. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE016-032 Fulacht fia
  Description

  A low semi-circular mound is all that remains of this site. A levelled fieldbank which ran in a SW-NE direction removed any trace of the S side of the mound. The mound survives to a height of .3m and measures 10m N-S x 15m E-W. KE016-030---- & KE016-031---- are in the immediate vicinity of this site. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 74. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE016-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 13m N-S, 18m E-W This univallate rath is situated in the corner of a field. Immediately to the NW to N, in the next field, lie three fulachta fiadh (72, 73, 74). This rath consists of an oval inner area which is enclosed by a low, wide, gently sloping earthen bank rising to a maximum of .6m above the interior and 1.2m above the surrounding land. On average the width of the bank at the base is 9m. A c 3m wide gap exists to the E. The overall diameter N-S is 25m and 29m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 627. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE017-009 Enclosure
  Description

  This circular enclosure is clearly marked on the 1841-42 map. Although it appears on the later edition map, it is somewhat distorted. It is very difficult to distinguish this enclosure today, as it is sited within an undulating field. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1074. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Furhane, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_231 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Furhane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Furhane · An Fuarán

Area

1,668,943 m² (166.89 ha, 412.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshenane, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Rathea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 166 households in the Rathea electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduhig, Beheens East, Beheens West, Coolnaleen Upper, Derrindaff, Moyassa

Placenames

Furhane 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.