Fanit
Fanit is a townland in the civil parish of Kilvellane, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Feánait.
- Area
- 128.2 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 8,623 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fanit, from 147 m² to 424,914 m² (42.49 ha, 105 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fanit 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
11 Mar 2025Conditional
the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of their dwelling, new front entrance porch, alterations to existing elevations and all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560192
30 Jan 2025Conditional
a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560058
4 Mar 2022Conditional
erection of a dwelling house and garage, entrance, demolish existing barn, install a septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260105
21 Feb 2022N/a
a dwellinghouse and garage , install a septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260075
8 Oct 2019N/a
glamping site comprising of 8 no individual glamping units, a storage unit, parking, wastewater treatment system, new signage at entrance and associated site works. The Planning Application is accompanied by an Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natura Impact Statement Report
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601111
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
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fanit.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fanit.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Fanit, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fanit.
- 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 Fanit with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Fanit · Feánait
- Area
- 1,282,306 m² (128.23 ha, 316.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilvellane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Newport, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,167 people lived in 1,060 households in the Newport electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlewaller, Gleno (Co. Limerick), Knockancullenagh, Lackamore, Toorlougher (Co. Limerick)
- Placenames
- Fanit 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.