Fearmore

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fearmore, from 14,526 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres) to 92,559 m² (9.26 ha, 22.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Fearmore 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.

• 28 Apr 2026Conditional

  alterations to previously granted application PL21/1559. Alterations to include removal of a single storey extension to the side and reduction in size of the granted rear extension, connection to onsite services and all associated site works (granted under PL 21/1559)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660462

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fearmore.

Recorded monuments

• KD026-008 Moated site
  Description

  At the top of a short low, but fairly steep, SW-facing pasture slope. A small stream flows SW some 20m to the SE. A poorly preserved rectangular area (26m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) is defined by a heavily overgrown, low earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; Wth 1.3-1.8m; ext H 1.4m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5-1.5m) mid way along the NW and SE sides, and by a well-defined outer fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.5-0.9m) which has been infilled along the SE side of the monument. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fearmore, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fearmore.

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 Fearmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Fearmore

Area

264,526 m² (26.45 ha, 65.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrackan, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Ballybrackan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

660 people lived in 223 households in the Ballybrackan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gorteen, Lughil, Riverstown

Placenames

Fearmore 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.