Cannafahy
Cannafahy is a townland in the civil parish of Callan, barony of Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Ceann na Faiche.
Parcel 863154
- Area
- 2,414 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 181 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cannafahy
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- About 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3416 (ZIP).
- 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
- 12.9 ha
- 32 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 1,803 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cannafahy, from 444 m² to 21,832 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 0 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
2 Jun 2026Conditional
a general-purpose agricultural storage shed and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660324
4 Mar 2025Conditional
to carry out the following works to dwelling : -construction of a single storey front porch -change of use of existing attached domestic garage to residential, providing an extension to dwelling -alterations to window and door openings to elevations and all other associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560102
22 Oct 2024Conditional
to retain existing detached shed/garage and kitchen extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site development works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460502
24 Aug 2022Conditional
to indefinitely retain an existing kitchen / porch extension to the front elevation of an existing dwelling and all associated site works on my lands
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22554
1 Jul 2019Conditional
for new first floor extension (area 18.8m .sq.) with flat roof over existing ground floor to rear of existing building. The development also includes: 2 no. new rooflights to rear pitched roof (980x940mm each); new wall mounted signage (area 2.0m.sq.) consisting of corporate logo disc and lettering to front elevation to replace existing signage; new wall mounted signage (area 3.8m.sq.) consisting of corporate logo disc and lettering to side elevation facing Clonmel Road; new free-standing internally illuminated double sided totem sign (2.4m high x 1.0m wide x 0.15m deep) inside boundary wall facing Clonmel Road
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19457
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 Cannafahy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cannafahy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cannafahy.
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
- About 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3416 (ZIP).
- 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 Cannafahy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Cannafahy · Ceann na Faiche
- Area
- 128,796 m² (12.88 ha, 31.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Callan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Callan
- Electoral division
- Callan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,932 people lived in 628 households in the Callan Rural electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolton, Callan South, Cappass, Coolalong, Prologue
- Placenames
- Cannafahy 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.