Fanaghs

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fanaghs, from 489 m² to 320,913 m² (32.09 ha, 79.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Fanaghs 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.

• 9 May 2025Refused

  for the material change of use of the existing one and a half storey ancillary building (previous Plan Ref;. 16/507), to a single residential unit

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2589

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  for the erection of a dwelling house to replace the existing single storey house which shall include a rear extension and changes to all the elevations

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 24306

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  for (A) the construction of 2-storey bay window containing a new accommodation stair to the first floor and associated internal and external modifications; (B) the provision of a new fire-escape compliant velux to an existing first floor bedroom; (C) the provision of a new sand filter and percolation area to serve the existing septic tank; and (D) and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460402

• 1 May 2024N/a

  for (A) the construction of 2-storey bay window containing a new accommodation stair to the first floor and associated internal and external modifications; (B) the provision of a new fire-escape compliant velux to an existing first floor bedroom; (C) the provision of a new sand filter and percolation area to the serve the existing septic tank; and (D) and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460390

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  a new single-storey extension to the side of the existing 4-bedroom dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23811

• 12 Jul 2023N/a

  Will consist of a new single storey extension to the side of the existing 4-bedroom dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23769

• 13 Dec 2022Conditional

  (a) Alterations to the permitted elevations of a one-off dwelling - Reg. Ref. 03/745; (b) the retention of an attic conversion and associated velux rooflights and (c) the retention of amendments to the permitted entrance & driveway and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 221475

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  constructing a two storey detached type house, detached type domestic garage, effluent treatment system, recessed vehicular entrance, and all associated ancillary site-works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211657

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a house, consisting of one and a half storeys, garage, sewerage treatment system and a double recessed residential/agricultural entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211634

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  construction of single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, minor alterations to existing dwelling and elevations, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21983

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  constructing a two storey type house in lieu of two storey type house design previously approved in planning file ref. no. 20/718, and amended in file ref. no. 20/1566, and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21514

• 18 Mar 2021Refused

  a two storey house, garage, sewerage treatment system and a recessed entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21339

• 9 Mar 2021N/a

  The development will consist of the change of use of an existing two storey garage building as a dwelling house, materialand fenestration reconfigurations, allalong with associated landscaping, ancillary and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21294

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  minor alterations to works previously approved in planning file Ref. No. 20/718. The minor alterations will consist of: (a) Minor alterations to house design including revised windows sizes and positions, inclusion of a sun shade element to the south facing elevation and minor alterations to the internal layout. (b) Revised position of proposed dwelling on the subject lands. (c) Revised position of proposed domestic garage on the subject lands, and associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201566

• 27 Nov 2020Refused

  construction of on-site staff accommodation in the form of a detached single storey gate lodge, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201430

• 6 Jul 2020Conditional

  a part single storey, part two storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, recessed vehicular entrance, and all associated ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20718

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  Single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing house to include extended kitchen/dining/living area, new utility room and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19747

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  to regularise the following: existing garage (24.68sqm) at the rear of the site, conservatory room at the rear of dwelling and internal alterations to be retained and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 1865

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 Fanaghs.

Recorded monuments

• KD009-003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a large circular area (est. max. diam. c. 60m), but not recorded on the latest ed. (1911) of the map. Near the E foot of a long, gentle, pasture slope. A small, very poorly preserved, circular area (int. diams; 25.5m N-S; 24m E-W) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.1-0.3m) and a broad, shallow, outer fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.1m) NE-S-NW, recut as a later drain along W and used as a tractor track along S. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD009-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Mid-way down a long and very gentle S-facing slope, in tillage. A very poorly preserved, heavily poached, almost levelled, sub-circular area (int. diams. 29m E-W; 25m N-S) is defined by a broad, low, inner earthen bank (Wth 4.5-7m; int. H 0.1m; ext H 1.1-1.7m), a shallow, wet fosse (Wth 4-6m; D 0.4-1.3m) recut as a field-drain boundary SE-S which has straightened the original curve of the monument, an outer earthen bank which survives as a low 'berm' (Wth 10-12m; H 0.2m) whose line can be traced as a vegetation band (Wth 10m) along the S, and a second, shallow, outer fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.2m) NE-E-SE. The cultivation ridges visible in the interior in 1972 (SMR file) have since been levelled. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD009-043 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 28m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018

• KD009-044 Moated site
  Description

  Cropmark of square-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 34m x 33m) with circular projection on SE angle visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Possible moated site or medieval bawn with flanking tower on SE angle. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fanaghs, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Fanaghs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Fanaghs

Area

1,693,215 m² (169.32 ha, 418.4 acres)

Civil parish

Cloncurry, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Cloncurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,648 people lived in 512 households in the Cloncurry electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeelan, Ballyteige, Cooltrim North, Cooltrim South, Graigrooth, Kilmagorroge, Lugadoo, Newtownhortland, Newtownmoneenluggagh, Tirmoghan Common

Placenames

Fanaghs 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.