Farranacounter

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranacounter, from 1,631 m² to 179,276 m² (17.93 ha, 44.3 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Farranacounter 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.

• 27 Sept 2019Conditional

  a) Permission for demolition of existing porch to existing dwelling house b) Permission for construction of single storey extension to existing dwelling house and c) Permission for construction of storey and half extension to existing dwelling house with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/624

• 22 May 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/953

• 17 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/686

• 8 Sept 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1808

• 25 Feb 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1101

• 7 May 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3115

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 Farranacounter.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farranacounter.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Farranacounter, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Farranacounter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Farranacounter · Fearann an Chantaire

Area

382,892 m² (38.29 ha, 94.61 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Coolcraheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

703 people lived in 245 households in the Coolcraheen electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoulahan, Derryduff, Garranecore, Kilruane, Knocknageehy, Lissard

Placenames

Farranacounter 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.