Fawnarry
Fawnarry is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlease, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Faiche an Earraigh.
- Area
- 89.8 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 49,199 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fawnarry, from 1,034 m² to 329,782 m² (32.98 ha, 81.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Fawnarry 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
No planning application touches the townland of Fawnarry in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Fawnarry.
Recorded monuments
- LE011-123 Sweathouse
Description
Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope with no houses in the vicinity. This is a subcircular cairn (dims 4.2m N-S; 3.6m E-W; H 0.2-0.4m) with a circular collapsed interior (int. dims 1.6m E-W; 1.2m N-S) and a collapsed entrance at E. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE011-148 Hut site
Description
Situated on E facing slope of rising ground with higher ground to W.Possible outline of a square-shaped hut site (int. Dims. 2.3m N-S; 2.7m E-W) defined by a double row of boulders (T 0.8m) with no enclosing element on the E side and no clear entrance feature visible.An adjoining possible hut site (LE011-149) is located on the NE side of this hut.The shape and form of these two hut sites is unclear and identification is uncertain.
- LE011-149 Hut site
Description
Situated on E facing slope of rising ground with higher ground to W.Possible outline of an irregular-shaped hut site defined by a scatter of boulders which could be interpreted as representing the site of a hut site although no clear structure could be identified.This possible hut site is built onto the NE side of an adjoining hut site (LE011-148). The shape and form of these two hut sites is unclear and identification is uncertain.
- LE011-150 Hut site
Description
Situated on E facing slope of rising ground in upland region with nearby hut sites (LE011-148----; LE011-149----) 150m to the NE. Poorly preserved possible hut site (int. dims. 2.1m by 2.6m)defined by a single line of boulders visible on the SW, SE and NW sides only. There is no enclosing element on the NE side or any evidence of an entrance feature which casts doubt about the identification of this site as a hut site.
- LE011-154 Field boundary
Description
Field wall (L. 320m ; H 0.5m; T 1.4m) built of loosely piled stone which is now grass covered running NNE-SSW for an approx. distance of 320m.
- LE011-158 Field boundary
Description
A short stretch of field wall (Wth 1.2m ; L 10m) consisting of a double row of boulders running WSW-ENE located 150m NE of another field wall (LE011-159)
- LE011-159 Field boundary
Description
A short section of a field wall(Wth 1.1m; L 20m) consisting of a double row of boulders running NE-SW.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fawnarry.
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 Fawnarry, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Fawnarry.
- 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 Fawnarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Fawnarry · Faiche an Earraigh
- Area
- 898,483 m² (89.85 ha, 222.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlease, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Sramore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 406 people lived in 144 households in the Sramore electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Fawnarry 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.