Farneigh
Townland in the civil parish of Killoscully, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Fearnaigh
- Area
- 180.6 ha
- 446 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 6,524 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farneigh, from 790 m² to 536,455 m² (53.65 ha, 132.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Farneigh 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
29 Apr 2025Conditional
a garage to the rear of the dwelling house, a shed to the rear of the dwelling house, an extension to the rear of the dwelling house, alterations to the front elevation of the dwelling house, alterations to the roof of the dwelling house, revised location of one chimney, conversion of the first-floor attic space to storage rooms and a dormer window to the rear of the dwelling house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560365
3 Apr 2025N/a
a garage to the rear of the dwellinghouse, a shed to the rear of the dwellinghouse, an extension to the rear of the dwellinghouse, alterations to the front elevation of the dwellinghouse, alternations to the roof of the dwellinghouse, revised location of one chimney, conversion of the first-floor attic space to storage rooms and a dormer window to the rear of the dwellinghouse
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560282
20 Dec 2024Conditional
a change of site boundary and relocation of a polishing filter from that granted in planning file 02-510388
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2461139
20 Dec 2018Conditional
the replacing of a thatch roof covering with new fibre cement slates together fascias, soffits, gutters, downpipes and a new front porch
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601508
29 Jun 2018Conditional
new garage and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600831
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 Farneigh.
Recorded monuments
- TN031-025 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Situated on the SW slope of a hilltop in an upland area with nearby barrow group (TN031-024) to NE. A well-preserved circular area (diam. 11.5m N-S) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2m) and outer bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.75m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at E. 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
- TN031-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the base of a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a destroyed enclosure site (TN031-040) to the SW. A circular area (diam. 20m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) best preserved at N, elsewhere reduced to a scarp with a possible destroyed entance gap at E. No visible trace of a fosse. 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
- TN031-040 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge in an upland area overlooking possible ringfort (TN031-039) to the SW. 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: 22 September 2008
- TN031-094 Earthwork
Description
In pasture. Cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 45m N-S) visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthophotos Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farneigh.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farneigh.
- 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 Farneigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Farneigh · Fearnaigh
- Area
- 1,805,529 m² (180.55 ha, 446.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoscully, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Killoscully, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killoscully electoral division: 510 people in 170 households; 91% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykinlalee, Ballynahinch, Controversy, Coolboreen, Drumbaun, Garraun, Gortshane East, Gortshane Middle, Munnia
- Placenames
- Farneigh 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.