Faddan Beg

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faddan Beg, from 24 m² to 1,010,321 m² (101.03 ha, 249.66 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 Faddan Beg 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.

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  the construction of a 2-storey dwelling house, single storey garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660222

• 4 Jan 2025Conditional

  1. A two story extension to the south east of our existing home. 2.Increase overall height and width of existing chimney stack in line with Building Regulations. 3.Alterations to front elevation windows of existing house. All associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560004

• 6 Dec 2024N/a

  development consisting of; 1. A two story extension to the south east of our existing home. 2. Replace existing effluent treatment system. 3. Increase overall height and width of existing chimney stack in line with Building Regulations. 4. Alterations to front elevation windows of existing house. All associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460488

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 Faddan Beg.

Recorded monuments

• OF014-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the W facing slope of high ground in undulating countryside. Circular area (diam 47m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) with slight external fosse visible at S only. No entrance feature visible. Field fence intersects site at W with pathway running through the centre of the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF014-053 Burial
  Description

  In March 1945 a number of human burials were discovered while ploughing a field on a farm at Faddan Beg, Ferbane, Co. Offaly (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol.2, 416-18). The remains were found at a depth of 0.5-0.75m below the ground surface. Some of the remains were re-interred on the spot, and a ring was apparently found close to one of the burials. Accounts of the discovery differ, one states that the ring was on a finger of a skeleton while the second states that the ring was found approximately '3 yards' from where the burials were. The site was reported to the NMI through Mr Richard Duff, Dundrum, Dublin, who brought the ring to the Museum. The following February an investigation was carried out by Ellen Prendergast accompanied by Mr Duff. The field is known locally as 'Andy's hill'. According to Prendergast's report the whole site had been heavily disturbed, but the landowner was able to indicate the area in which the bone was found. A number of bones were noticed directly under the ploughed soil. Prendergast also describes finding a finger bone on which verdigris was noticed. There was no evidence of grave cuts. According to the landowner, the skeletons had lain side by side, fully extended, supine and facing east. The depth of topsoil varied from c.0.1m to 0.75m over the burials. Prendergast uncovered the remains of nine skeletons, all of which appeared to have been extended. A bronze finger ring was reportedly found with the burial in grave 1, which was immediately south of grave 2. To the west of these two were the remains of seven other burials, three complete and four partial. Grave 4 contained a fully extended and supine skeleton with the hands extended by the side. The feet do not appear to have been particularly close together. Grave 5 lay at a slight angle, with the head of the interred placed to the south-west and the feet to the north-east. Prendergast describes how a 'smaller skeleton (in grave 6) lay in confusion with the pelvis of that in grave 5, and it is possible that these were foetal bones. The skeleton in grave 7 was extended, supine and oriented west-south-west/east-north-east. Some skull bone and leg bones (numbered skeleton 8) were found over the lower limbs of this skeleton. The burial in grave 9 consisted of a skull and some other bone fragments, but no other parts of the skeleton were found. Compiled by: Mary Cahill and Maeve Sikora Date of upload: 09 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Faddan Beg, 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 Faddan Beg.

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

Name

Faddan Beg · An Feadán Beag

Area

2,217,970 m² (221.8 ha, 548.07 acres)

Civil parish

Tisaran, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lumcloon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

353 people lived in 143 households in the Lumcloon electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonbonniff, Faddan More, Farranmacshane, Kilcummin

Placenames

Faddan Beg 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.