Farranmacshane

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranmacshane, from 447 m² to 55,645 m² (5.56 ha, 13.75 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 Farranmacshane 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.

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  Replacement of existing septic tank effluent treatment system with new proprietary effluent treatment system to include tertiary treatment and all ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360022

• 27 Jun 2023N/a

  replacement of existing septic tank effluent treatment system with new proprietary effluent treatment system to include tertiary treatment and all ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360002

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 Farranmacshane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farranmacshane.

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1900, with GR royal cipher and crown motif. Located on roadside at crossroads beside a church and water pump. Maker’s mark ‘W.T. Allen & Co. London’ to base.

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 Farranmacshane, 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 Farranmacshane.

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 Farranmacshane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Farranmacshane · Fearann Mhic Sheáin

Area

175,887 m² (17.59 ha, 43.46 acres)

Civil parish

Tisaran, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Huntston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

393 people lived in 136 households in the Huntston electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellmount or Lisderg, Faddan Beg, Faddan More, Kilcummin

Placenames

Farranmacshane 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.