Farranville

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranville, from 114 m² to 176,437 m² (17.64 ha, 43.6 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 Farranville 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.

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  construct a first-floor extension to the rear of, and internal modifications to, the existing single storey dwelling, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360118

• 5 Nov 2020Conditional

  retain dwelling house as constructed including two first floor gable windows and retain domestic garage as constructed and retain altered site boundaries, all of which was previously granted planning permission with 00/73

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20580

• 3 Nov 2020N/a

  retain dwelling house as constructed including two first floor gable windows and retain domestic garage as constructed and retain altered site boundaries, all of which was previously granted planning permission with 00/73

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20568

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 Farranville.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-013 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Marked on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map only; an irregular line of hachures indicates part of a possible earthwork ( C c. 85m SSE-SW) located in front of Farranville House. Situated in slightly undulating countryside. A slightly raised area in front of Farranville House and appears to be a landscape feature possibly a ha-ha associated with Farranville House. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 09 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Farranville, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Farranville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Farranville · Fearann na gCosán

Area

439,182 m² (43.92 ha, 108.52 acres)

Civil parish

Bordwell, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kilcoke, the unit of the census

Census 2022

141 people lived in 53 households in the Kilcoke electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beckfield North, Beckfield South, Brocka, Coolfin, Garryduff, Rahandrick Upper

Placenames

Farranville 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.