Fennor
Townland in the civil parish of Duneany, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 124.6 ha
- 308 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 3,025 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fennor, from 948 m² to 610,943 m² (61.09 ha, 150.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Fennor 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
8 May 2026Conditional
Alterations to existing dwelling and garage granted under Pl. Ref. 94/380, including the following; 1. Minor alterations to existing elevations including upgraded design of bay projections (from chamfered to squared) and the addition of small gable roofs over both bay projections to front elevation. 2. Nap render finish to all elevations in place of previously granted brick finish. 3. Construction of single storey extension to rear (exempted development). 4. Alterations to internal floor layouts including removal of original wall between kitchen and living room. 5. Conversion of original domestic garage to games room ancillary to dwelling. 6. And all associated and auxiliary site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660499
16 Dec 2025Conditional
for a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561437
18 Feb 2025Conditional
for a single storey extension to side and a canopy over back door of existing farmhouse including internal renovations and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560154
14 Feb 2025N/a
for a single storey extension to side and a canopy over back door of existing farmhouse including internal renovations and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560136
12 May 2023Conditional
(a) Construction of a one and a half storey and part single storey type house, (b) Garage/store for domestic use, (c) The installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and (d) New vehicular entrance and driveway off the shared access laneway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23511
21 Oct 2022Conditional
(1) an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, (2) a stable building comprising of 7 stables, tack room and feed store, (3) an adjoining building with indoor horse walker, (4) a domestic use storage shed, (5) an underground effluent tank, (6) all ancillary site services as constructed. Revised by Significant Further Information proposed to change the use of the horse walker structure to a covered dungstead
Retention · Kildare County Council, 221253
18 Oct 2021Conditional
for an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted permission by Kildare County Council under PI. Ref. 12448) together with antennas, dishes, equipment cabinets, fencing and all associated site development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 211496
7 Oct 2020Conditional
(A) Erection of 2. No. Two storey type houses, (B) Garage/ Fuel store for domestic use on each site. (C) The installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area on each site and (D) Construction of a combined vehicular recessed entrance and all associated site works,
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 201167
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 Fennor.
Recorded monuments
- KD027-007 Enclosure
Description
Shown on the OS 25-inch map (www.osi.ie) as a D-shaped area (est. diam. c. 45m NE-SW) with a straight SW side (est. L c. 65m) enclosed by a bank, with a broad outer fosse or berm (est. max. Wth c. 10m at W), and by a second, outer bank which appears also to be used as a field boundary, and which encloses a rectangular area (est. max. L c. 80m ESE-WNW; Wth c. 65m NNE-SSW). Reported to have been levelled 1954. No visible surface traces survived when inspected in 1972 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 August 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fennor.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fennor.
- 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 Fennor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Fennor
- Area
- 1,246,283 m² (124.63 ha, 307.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duneany, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Kildangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kildangan electoral division: 736 people in 239 households; 81% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Grangebeg, Kingsbog or Common, Mooretown, Rathmuck, Shanacloon
- Placenames
- Fennor 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.