Farran
Farran is a townland in the civil parish of Templeomalus, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Fearann.
Parcel 2226122
- Area
- 60,799 m² (6.08 ha, 15.02 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Farran
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct dwelling, detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0674
19 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to construct dwelling, detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0408
15 Mar 2010Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to the front elevation of existing dwelling and all associated drainage works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/176
26 Sept 2006Conditional
Alteration and extension to existing dwelling, new garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1951
4 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Alteration and extension to existing dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1775
6 Dec 2005Conditional
Installation of 5 no. velux windows and extension to dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9021
23 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1765
5 Apr 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1959
2 Mar 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1107
20 Mar 1998Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1086
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 32.5 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farran, from 1,600 m² to 152,761 m² (15.28 ha, 37.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct dwelling, detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0674
19 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to construct dwelling, detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0408
28 Nov 2022Conditional
Demolition of an existing house, the construction of a new dwelling house, the removal of an existing septic tank, the installation of a new waste-water treatment unit and percolation area, and the relocation of the bored water well and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6637
19 Jul 2012Unconditional
Demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of dwelling house and associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/463
15 Mar 2010Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to the front elevation of existing dwelling and all associated drainage works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/176
13 Feb 2008Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of dwelling house and associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/258
26 Sept 2006Conditional
Alteration and extension to existing dwelling, new garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1951
4 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Alteration and extension to existing dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1775
6 Dec 2005Conditional
Installation of 5 no. velux windows and extension to dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9021
23 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1765
3 Apr 2001Conditional
Construction of shed for storage of fishing equipment
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1798
5 Apr 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1959
2 Mar 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1107
20 Mar 1998Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1086
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 Farran.
Recorded monuments
- CO135-109 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (28.9m N-S; 30.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.1m), with external fosse (D 1.3m) SE-SW. Break in bank to W (Wth 2m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farran.
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 Farran, 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 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 Farran.
- 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 Farran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Farran · An Fearann
- Area
- 324,626 m² (32.46 ha, 80.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeomalus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Templeomalus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 786 people lived in 271 households in the Templeomalus electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Councambeg, Lackenduff, South-Ring
- Placenames
- Farran 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.