Farnans

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnans, from 171 m² to 509,344 m² (50.93 ha, 125.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 70 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 Farnans 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.

• 31 Jan 2026Conditional

  retain variations to dwelling from that previously granted permission with planning ref 14/291, namely lifting roof by 600mm and full planning permission for a Sun room to side of dwelling and all associated and necessary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660044

• 29 Jan 2026N/a

  retain variations to dwelling from that previously granted permission with planning ref 14/291, namely lifting roof by 600mm and full planning permission for a Sun room to side of dwelling and all associated and necessary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660040

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  retain (i) Dwelling house as constructed, (ii) Domestic garage as constructed (previously granted planning references 01/521 and 03/769) and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360412

• 8 Aug 2023Refused

  alter existing dwelling to include, the construction of a one & half storey type extension to the north west elevation, internal & external alterations, permission for a bored well, tertiary treatment system & infiltration/treatment area, upgrading of existing entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360317

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  retain the modifications to the existing roadside entrance as constructed

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21515

• 7 Apr 2020Conditional

  retain the existing quarry as excavated and extend and operate the retained quarry for a period of 20 years and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20180

• 27 Nov 2019Conditional

  to retain quarry as excavated. Full Planning Permission to continue to operate same quarry as a quarry and associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19653

• 17 Apr 2019Conditional

  construct a forest entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19218

• 23 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a forest entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18528

• 14 Feb 2018Conditional

  construct a shed to house, a garage, fuel shed and storage area and all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1873

• 11 Sept 2017Refused

  construct a one and a half-storey extension and alterations to existing cottage, upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system, upgrading of existing site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17492

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17213

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 Farnans.

Recorded monuments

• LA031-004001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1906 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated in undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. Destroyed approx. 10 yrs ago. Castle site indicated by a slight rise in the ground, slight evidence of a fosse (Wth 6m) at W, N and NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA031-004002 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1906 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a square enclosure (max. dim. c. 40m). A slightly raised area defined by a fosse (Wth c. 6m) at N, NE and W survives. No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Farnans, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Farnans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Farnans · An Fearnán

Area

6,380,432 m² (638.04 ha, 1,576.64 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Farnans, the unit of the census

Census 2022

208 people lived in 70 households in the Farnans electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield, Ballylehane Upper, Ballynakill, Castletown, Doonane, Kilcruise, Maidenhead, Rushes, Slatt Upper, Turra

Placenames

Farnans 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.