Farranadum
Farranadum is a townland in the civil parish of Clonshanbo, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 112.1 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 17,411 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranadum, from 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 217,928 m² (21.79 ha, 53.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Farranadum 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Jul 2026N/a
for the construction of an additional domestic garage/store and associated site works, to the rear of the existing dwelling
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2692
4 Aug 2023N/a
the partial demolition of existing dwelling, construction of new single storey extensions to North-West & South-East Elevations, new carport to North-West Elevation (front), changes to existing elevations, construction of 2 no. new Gazebo’s to rear garden, upgrade of existing treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360100
15 Nov 2022Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse with detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and new recessed entrance, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221361
3 Sept 2020Conditional
constructing a two storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, recessed vehicular entrance, and all associated ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201006
22 Dec 2017Conditional
construction of a bungalow, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, American barn, dungstead and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171493
3 Nov 2017Conditional
the construction of a storey and a half dwellinghouse with detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, and new recessed entrance, together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171228
2 May 2017Refused
the construction of a 2 storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and new recessed entrance, together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17494
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 Farranadum.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farranadum.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farranadum.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Farranadum, about 1 in 20 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2716 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Farranadum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Farranadum
- Area
- 1,121,458 m² (112.15 ha, 277.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonshanbo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Balraheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,559 people lived in 663 households in the Balraheen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafullim, Ballyloughan, Baltracey, Belgard, Clonshanbo
- Placenames
- Farranadum 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.