Farnaght

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnaght, from 80 m² to 212,324 m² (21.23 ha, 52.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Farnaght 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.

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  restoration, change of use to a single dwelling unit, a two-storey rear extension, not higher than the existing building, with an entrance lobby, kitchen, utility, bedroom, walk-in wardrobe, bathroom, also a wastewater treatment plant, permeable paving, car access, entrance gates, parking for three cars, associated site works and alterations to the existing building, which is a protected structure

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460148

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  construction of new (a) 4 bedroom dwelling (b) two car garage (c) installation of new wastewater treatment system & percolation area to En.12566-3 PIA approved, (d) entrance gates & piers and front roadside wall with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22112

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  development at this site: Lough Rynn Estate Former Dispensary, Farnaught, Co Leitrim - a single storey Protected Structure. The development will consist of the provision of two number "Velux" style roof lights and one dormer window on the rear pitch of the roof

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20143

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  to carry out development works at existing dwelling house. The development seeks Planning Permission to revise plans and details previously granted planning permission under Planning Registration Number P.18/138 in order to convert and extend existing bungalow to a dormer bungalow dwelling and carry out all associated renovation/refurbishment works. The proposed works will also include amendments to (a) proposed entrance (b) boundary treatments and (c) upgrading of existing waste water treatment system details, all previously granted under Planning Registration Number P.18/138 and all other associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19123

• 5 Mar 2019N/a

  (a) retain and complete stable building comprising the retention of existing concrete hardstand area and permission for the erection of prefabricated shed on said hardstand for the purpose of housing horses; (b) permission for the erection of a dung stead including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1948

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  (a) alterations to elevations and internal layout; (b) demolition of single storey flat roof extension to rear of dwelling house and (c) provision of a storey and a half extension to the south west side of the dwelling house to include sitting room and open plan living space on ground floor and bedroom space and bathrooms on first floor, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, replacement effluent treatment system and all ancillary site works in lieu of Permission for (a) alterations to elevations and internal layout; (b) demolition of single storey flat roof extension to rear of dwelling house and (c) provision of a storey and a half extension to the south west side of the dwelling house to include sitting room and open plan living space on ground floor and bedroom space and bathrooms on first floor, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18138

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clooncoe Wood And Lough 000424

Recorded monuments

• LE036-020 Crannog
  Description

  Located c. 50-60m from the S shore of Clooncoe Lough (dims c. 1.2km N-S; c. 200-250m E-W), it is depicted as an island an estate map (Wogan 1750, 26) and later OS maps. This is an overgrown circular feature (diam. 27.5m E-W; H 0.7m) with evidence of timber stake construction along the perimeter at NW. A stone pier at WNW is probably modern. A programme of radiocarbon dating undertaken by the Discovery Programme produced a date of 855 +- 20 BP (AD 1155-1248) from wood taken from the crannog (O’Conor and Fredengren 2019, 91). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 30 December 2019

• LE036-021001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying, undulating landscape. The graveyard is not depicted on an eighteenth century estate map (Wogan 1750, 26) and it is described as a ‘Burying Ground’ on the OS 6-inch maps. This is a subcircular enclosure (int. dims 85m N-S; 69m E-W) defined by a masonry wall NW-NE and by an earthen bank topped with a collapsed stone wall elsewhere. It has headstones dating from the 18th century, some of whose inscriptions dating from 1777 were recorded in the 1930s (IFC: Schools Collections’ vol. 0214, 345-8). A small cross-inscribed stone (LE036-021006-) is in the graveyard. Outside the enclosure at SW are the foundations of a tower house (LE036-021003-) within a rath (LE036-021002-), and a Church of Ireland church which was built c. 1850-55 as a chapel for the Clements family of Lough Rinn (LE036-006----) is attached to the S. Archaeological supervision (00E0867) of the replacement of the perimeter with a masonry wall NE-SE demonstrated that it was a slight earth and stone bank and the stones had been thrown up from inside. However, it produced no dateable material (Meenan 2001, 2002). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 7 January 2020

• LE036-021002 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying, undulating landscape. The graveyard (LE036-021001-) is with a subcircular enclosure (int. dims 85m N-S; 69m E-W) defined by a masonry wall NW-SE and by an earthen bank topped with a collapsed stone wall elsewhere. It has headstones dating from the 18th century. Archaeological supervision (00E0867) of the replacement of the perimeter with a masonry wall NE-SE demonstrated that it was a slight earth and stone bank and the stones had been thrown up from inside. However, it produced no dateable material (Meenan 2001, 2002). Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October 2010 Amended: 7 January 2020

• LE036-021003 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying, undulating landscape outside the graveyard (LE036-021001-) at SW, but within a small subcircular rath (LE036-021005-). A ‘stone house' with a chimney is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Mohill at Farnaght, and the terrier or commentary mentions it again and lists Bryan Reynolds as the proprietor (See this web-page accessed on 12/12/2019: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/history.html). He also owned land in eight other townlands in Cloone parish amounting to over 700 acres in total. Local information from the 1940s (SMR file) relates how the ruin was covered in a mound of clay until exposed by Lord Leitrim about the middle of the nineteenth century. The cairn surrounds the castle on every side but is greatest (at S: Wth of base 3.5m; H 1-1.2m) where the castle walls survive to the greatest height (2m) at E and S. The walls of a tower house (ext. dims c. 9m N-S; c. 6m E-W) are misinterpreted on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a church where the ruin is described as an ‘Oratory’. The S wall (H c. 2m) has a pointed doorway (Wth 0.93m; H 1.6m) at the centre and a severe base-batter. The doorway leads to a passage (L 2.4m N-S) in the thickness of the S wall with a newel or spiral stairs off it on the W side entered by a pointed doorway (Wth 0.67m; H 1.55m). From the passage there is direct access to the ground floor (int. dims 4.3m N-S; 3.3m E-W), but just the base of the walls survive at N. See the attached views taken from the SE _1 and SW _2. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 7 January 2020

• LE036-021005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying, undulating landscape. It is not depicted on an eighteenth century estate map (Wogan 1850, 26) but is represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped, scrub-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 1.8-2.2m) WNW-NE and SE-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (at W: Wth 1m; H 1.8m; at E: Wth 2.5m; H 1.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or recognisable original entrance. The straight side is at E where the perimeter is covered by the cairn around the tower house (LE036-021003-). The graveyard (LE0356-021002-) is just to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January 2020

• LE036-021006 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  A small grave-marker (dims 0.28-0.32m x 0.07-0.1m; L 0.92m) has a latin cross (H 0.25m; span 0.22m plus) composed of three deeply incised lines on one face. This cross is truncated by the straight edge of the stone on one side and the stone also has a latin cross (H 0.12m; span 0.13m) incised with single lines and expanded terminals centrally placed at the narrower top of the same face. Beneath this cross are incised the initials MM. What might be an early cross-slab was reused as a late grave-marker and is now resting on a grave. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• Rinn Dispensary, surgery/clinic, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former dispensary, built c.1850, now derelict. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Random coursed stone walls with tooled quoins. Timber casement windows with limestone sills, lintels and block-and-start surrounds. Projecting gable-fronted ashlar porch with decorative timber bargeboard and shouldered-arched opening. Timber battened door with limestone steps. Random coursed stone outbuilding to rear. Site bounded by rubble stone wall.

• School, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with attic former primary school, built c.1870, now in domestic use. Pitched slate roof with decorative timber bargeboards and brick chimneystacks. Random coursed stone walls with cut stone quoins. Window openings to gable end with red brick surrounds. Stone and timber lintels to façade and rear elevation with replacement uPVC windows. Projecting gable-fronted porch to façade with shoulder-arched opening, brick surround and stone steps to entrance. Replacement uPVC door. Original entrance to site was over single-span stone bridge.

• Lough Rynn House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with attic gable-fronted former gate lodge, built c.1850, now in domestic use. Pitched slate roof with decorative timber bargeboards, oversailing eaves and catslide roof to porch. Cut stone chimneystack with terracotta pots. Random coursed stone walls with cut stone quoins. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds having chamfered reveals and chamfered tooled limestone sills. Casement windows and side-sliding timber sash windows. Shouldered-arched opening to entrance with timber battened door and stone steps. Stone outbuilding to rear of site with pitched slate roof. Site bounded by random stone wall with tooled stone piers.

• Lime kiln, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan single-storey gable-fronted lime kiln, built c.1840 into natural slope. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with circular brick chimneystack and brick cornice. Ashlar stone to front gable and random coursed stone to other elevations with roughly-dressed quoins. Vent window openings with brick surrounds. Door opening to east elevation with red brick surround. Segmental-arched opening to front with dressed voussoirs and wrought-iron gate. Random stone retaining walls lining entrance to lime kiln.

• The Cottage, worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former estate worker's house, built c.1850, with extension to rear. Now used as a private house. Pitched slate roof with cut stone chimneystack, terracotta pots and ridge cresting and decorative timber bargeboards. Random coursed cut stone walls with tooled quoins. Block-and-start surrounds to replacement timber casement windows with limestone sills. Dormer windows with limestone lintels and bargeboards to front elevation. Cut stone entrance porch with timber battened door. Limestone flags to floor of porch. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear and rear stone outbuilding with slate roof. Set within own mature garden bounded on roadside by cast-iron railings and gates.

• Saint Mary's Church (Cloone), church/chapel, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-cell Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built in 1853 by Joseph Welland, with five-bay nave, two-bay chancel, projecting gable-fronted entrance porch and projecting three-stage castellated gargoyled tower to façade. Vestry to north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with cut stone chimneystack to vestry, Celtic cross finials to gable ends and entrance porch. Random coursed cut stone walls with quoins. Buttresses to tower. West elevation with stone steps leading to vaults accessed through segmental-headed battened door. Door openings have chamfered surrounds. Pointed-arched entrance to porch with limestone steps, tooled block-and-start surround and latticed timber door. Shouldered-arched opening to sacristy with timber battened door. Lancet window openings with tooled chamfered surrounds containing leaded lattice windows and stained glass windows. Lancet openings to chancel with hood-mouldings and stained glass windows. Site bounded by random coursed wall to roadway. Cast-iron railings separate church from graveyard. Graveyard containing pre-1700 grave markers, recumbent grave slabs and gravestones, wrought-iron grave markers and present day upright graves. Earliest date visible on marker is 1814.

• Lough Rynn House, gate lodge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with attic gable-fronted former gate lodge, built c.1850, now vacant. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves, cut stone chimneystack and decorative timber bargeboards. Random coursed stone walls. Tooled limestone lintels to side-sliding timber sash windows with limestone sills and brick surrounds. Projecting lean-to entrance porch to east with shouldered-arched opening with cut stone lintel, red brick surround and timber battened door. Stone outbuilding with pitched slate roof to north-west. Set behind random coursed stone wall with rock-faced cut stone piers to estate.

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 Farnaght, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Farnaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Farnaght · Farnocht

Area

1,832,073 m² (183.21 ha, 452.72 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Rinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

466 people lived in 183 households in the Rinn electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breanross South, Clooncoe, Drumbad, Drumgilra, Drumhirk, Gortletteragh

Placenames

Farnaght 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.