Faddan More
Townland in the civil parish of Loughkeen, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Feadán Mór
- Area
- 330.3 ha
- 816 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 15,646 m² (1.56 ha, 3.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faddan More, from 42 m² to 661,225 m² (66.12 ha, 163.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Faddan More 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Mar 2026N/a
the partially constructed single storey dwelling including foundations, blockwork to wall plate level and site boundaries, and PERMISSION for the completion of the dwelling including finishing works, installation of roof, blocks, windows, doors, internal finishes, wastewater treatment system, bored well and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660183
26 Sept 2024Conditional
the existing shed
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460819
3 Sept 2024N/a
to retain existing shed
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460729
22 Sept 2023Refused
(1) The construction of 7 no. wind turbines and associated hardstand areas with the following parameters a) total tip height range of 179.5m – 185m, b) rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) hub height range of 103.5m to 110.5m; (2) 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation which will be constructed in the townland of Faddan Beg consisting of a single storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, battery energy storage system, security fencing, all associated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and all ancillary works and equipment; (3) All works (within County Tipperary) associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid, via the provision of underground electrical cabling (38kV) to the existing Dallow 110kV substation in the townland of Clondallow, Co. Offaly; (4) Provision of 10 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the underground electrical cabling route; (5) reinstatement of the road or track surface above the proposed cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; (6) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed wind farm substation; (7) 1 no. meteorological mast with a height of 107m above ground and associated foundation and hard-standing area; (8) upgrade of existing tracks and roads and the provision of new site access roads; (9) all works associated with the provision of a new permanent site entrance off the L5040 local road; (10) provision of 5 no. new access and egress points along the L5041 local road in the townlands of Cloncorig, Faddan More and Coolderry; (11) Provision of 4 no. peat repository areas and 3 no. spoil repository areas; (12) 2 no. temporary construction compounds with temporary site offices and staff facilities; (13) Accommodation works along the public road network along the N52 national secondary road in the townland of Ballyloughnane to facilitate the delivery of turbine components and other abnormal sized loads; (14) Site Drainage; (15) Tree Felling; (16) Operational stage site signage; and, (17) all associated site development works, ancillary works and apparatus. - Works within the curtilage of Protected Structures RPS Ref. TRPS336 (Ballyloughnane Bridge) and RPS Ref. TRPS519 (Croghan Bridge)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360763
13 Sept 2021N/a
construction of a new dwelling with attic space, new septic tank and percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211358
3 Jan 2020Conditional
detached domestic garage/fuel store and pumphouse as constructed and all associated site and incidental works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 202
25 May 2018Conditional
the partial demolition of a plant room and sunroom to the rear (west) of the existing dwelling, and the construction of a single storey extension to the west and north including an integrated garage and carport, including internal modifications and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600662
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 Faddan More.
Recorded monuments
- TN005-025 Enclosure
Description
Impossible to locate site in boggy terrain. Healy (1979, 34) describes it as a ringfort, 30m in diameter. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN005-026 Earthwork
Description
Situated on poorly drained land with bog on all sides. Nearby tree-ring (TN005-027----) lies 350m to the SE. Indicated as a circular earthwork with trees planted inside it on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map, but not visible on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 09 January 2012
- TN005-027 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated on poorly drained land with bog on all sides. Nearby earthwork site (TN005-026--) lies 350m to the NW. Depicted as an irregular-shaped grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map, not indicated on any subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Possibly the site of a tree-ring. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 09 January 2012
- TN005-029 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Listed in SMR (1992) as an enclosure possible and in RMP (1998) as a tree ring possible. Field inspection c.1995, established that this partially destroyed tree ring is of 19th century date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN008-004 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
Situated on top of a natural rise of ground with extensive views; river and hall-house (TN008-010001) to S. A well-preserved, large, conical-shaped, slightly round-topped mound of earth and stone construction (top diam. 6m; base diam. 16m; H 2-3m) with enclosing fosse (Wth 2.8m; ext. D 1.3m) and external bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.7m). Recent field-clearance debris dumped into fosse and along bank at NE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Faddan More.
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
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Faddan More.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Faddan More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Faddan More · An Feadán Mór
- Area
- 3,302,808 m² (330.28 ha, 816.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Clohaskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clohaskin electoral division: 249 people in 89 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arragh Beg, Arragh More, Ballaghgar, Clohaskin, Cloncorig, Clonfinane, Coolderry, Faddan Beg, Sharragh
- Placenames
- Faddan More 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.