Farranrory Lower

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranrory Lower, from 204 m² to 631,928 m² (63.19 ha, 156.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Farranrory Lower 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.

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  an amendment to the planning application previously granted permission under planning reference 20/972. The previously consented planning application included the construction of 9 turbines with maximum overall ground to blade tip height of up to 150 metres, associated foundations and hardstand areas; new site entrances, upgrade of existing site entrances; new on-site 38KV substation and all ancillary site works. The proposed amendments to the previously consented application comprise: (1) Increase the tip height of the turbines from 150 to 156.5 metres and increase the rotor diameter from 133 to 136 metres (3) Reconfiguration of a number of the consented hardstand layouts and associated changes to internal access roads (4) Minor Adjustments to the red line boundary (5) Provision of LiDAR (This application is accompanied by a NIS)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360803

• 1 Sept 2020Conditional

  a ten year planning permission for a renewable energy development with a 40-year operational life (from the date of commissioning of the renewable energy development). The entirety of the development constitutes the provision of a 9-turbine wind farm and all associated works on lands in both Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny. This development comprises part of an overall development for which planning permission is also sought for a 38kV substation in the townland of Killeen, Co. Kilkenny. A separate planning application will be made for an underground grid connection to Tipperary County Council and to Kilkenny County Council. The proposed development will constitute the provision of the following: • Construction of up to 9 turbines each with a maximum overall ground to blade tip height of up to 150 metres and associated foundations and hardstand areas; • Construction of new site entrances and upgrade of existing site entrances; • Internal wind farm underground power and communications cabling; • Upgrade of existing access tracks and provision of new site access roads; • Removal of existing Meteorological Masts and construction of 1 new Meteorological Mast for monitoring wind speeds with a maximum height of up to 85 metres; • Site drainage network • Construction of a new temporary site compound for use during construction; • Two Borrow Pits • Construction of a new on-site 38kV substation The planning application will be accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20972

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  (1) for construction of a 20 unit milking parlour complete with dairy, stores, meal bin, collection yard and holding pin (2) permission for conversion of existing open shed into cubicles and (3) permission for retention of as built effluent tank and all associated site works on our farm

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600534

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 Farranrory Lower.

Recorded monuments

• TS049-051001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On low rise of grassland in wet, poorly drained land in upland region with good views in all directions. A nearby stream is 60m to N. William Faninge is listed as proprietor of the castle in 1640 and it is is described as a 'good little castle with a good thatcht house & some cabbins', (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 115). According to the Ormond Deeds, a house at Farranrory belonging to William Fanyng, gent., was wilfully burned in 1555 (COD V, 70) and Edmund Fanning of Farranrory, gentleman, is noted in 1579 (COD V, 303). A 16th-century date is probable for this tower house, based on the presence of gun loops, armorial plaque and punch dressing. The remains of the circular tower house (int. diam. 5.3m; wall T 2.35m) stand to three storeys high, though only the lower walls of the top storey survive. Attached to the W face of the tower house are the remains of a ruined two-storey farmhouse (TS049-051002-) of possible 17th-century date. The tower house itself is situated in the centre of a disused farmyard, with ruined outhouses to N and one outhouse immediately to the S of the tower house. There are no remains visible of a bawn wall in the area around the farmyard. The tower house was built of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with a slight base-batter and a pointed doorway in the NW face of the castle. The doorway has limestone jambs with an external rebate to receive a yett and a yett-hole in the apex. Directly over the doorway there is a blank plaque, probably intended as an armorial plaque. The doorway has been blocked up, with a slit ope inserted in the blocking, and immediately S of the doorway is the N wall return of the added 17th-century farmhouse. Possibly the door was blocked when the 17th-century house was added, with new access into the tower house being from the ground floor of the new house, incorporating the original guardroom as the access passage. In the W face of the tower house here is evidence of an inserted doorway from the 17th-century house and also an inserted fireplace for the ground-floor chamber of this later house. Inside the main doorway of the tower house there is a lobby area protected by an overhead murder hole, a cruciform gun loop with fine foliate decoration opposite, and a guardroom to the S. There is evidence of a drawbar slot inside the doorway in the N face and a small reception hole in the S jamb opposite. To the N, a short mural passage contains a doorway into the ante-chamber from which the ground floor is accessed before leading to the spiral stairs in the N section of the tower. The ground floor is lit by three windows set into large segmental-arched embrasures with gun loops on either side of each window. The windows are round-headed with punch-dressed limestone jambs and the spandrels of the SE window are decorated with stiff-leaf foliage. The wooden first floor was carried on limestone corbels, accessed from the spiral stairs, lit by two ogee-headed windows and one round-headed window and was vaulted above. The destroyed third floor was also accessed from the spiral stairs but is no longer accessible and no features survive. A vaulted mural passage from the stairs at first-floor level in the N wall, with gun loop and slop-stone in the external face, leads to the murder-hole over the entrance lobby. Gun loops at ground floor and first-floor level are small circular holes constructed from two pieces of limestone, probably used for handguns. The walls of the tower house are in very poor condition, with trees growing down from the wall tops and several structural cracks visible in the N and S faces. There is good evidence for wicker centring on the underside of the segmental-arched embrasures and a fine vault over the first floor. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-051002 House - 17th century
  Description

  On low rise of grassland in wet poorly drained land in upland region with good views in all directions. Nearby stream 60m to N. In the Civil Suvey (1654-6) William Faninge is listed as proprietor of the castle in 1640 and its is described as good little castle with a good thatcht house & some cabbins' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 115). This house may be the thatched house described in the Civil Survey. Attached to the W face of the tower house (TS049-051001-) are the remains of a ruinous two storey single pile farmhouse (int. dims. 5.5m N-S; 12.3m E-W; wall T 0.7m; ext. dims. 7m N-S; 13.75m E-W) of possible 17th-century date. The doorway of the tower house has been blocked up with a slit ope inserted into the blocking, immediately W of the doorway is the N wall return of the added 17th-century farmhouse. Possibly the door of the tower house was blocked up when the 17th-century house was added with access to the tower house from the ground floor of the new house, incorporating the guardroom as the access passage into the tower house. Evidence for an inserted doorway into the W face of the tower house from the 17th-century house and fireplace inserted into external W face of castle for the ground-floor chamber of the 17th-century house. This house had single room extension (ext. dims. 7m N-S; 6.5m E-W added onto the W gable in the 19th century, evidence for reuse or architectural fragments possibly from the tower house off centre to W in the S wall of the house. The dwelling was aligned E-W with its front facing S with doorway off centre to E on S wall. Two-storey house consisting of four bays lighting three rooms. N wall only survives as low wall footings (H 0.6m) while the S wall survives in places to roof line as does the W gable, all windows are destroyed and doorway is partially destroyed. Fireplaces at either end of house, in the W gable and at ground-floor level in the external face of the W wall of the tower house. Wrapped silage bales up against external face of S wall making detailed examination of house impossible. There is no evidence of the cabbins mentioned in the Civil Survey description. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-051003 Deer park
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope of rising grassland in an upland region with good views in all directions. A tower house, Farranrory castle (TS049-051001-), is located immediately NE of the deerpark. A map of the coal district of Killenaule from 1824 9 NLI 16.I.17(1) shows the boundaries of the deerpark which encompasses the land adjoining the SW of the tower house. Traces of this deerpark enclosure (dims 375m NW-SE by 560m NE-SW) may be represented by a low roughly coursed limestone wall which runs parallel to the SW of the driveway up to the castle (H 1m; wall T 0.5m). Originally this wall may have enclosed the deerpark associated with Farranrory castle. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-057 Enclosure
  Description

  On a S-facing slope of low rising grassland in upland area with good views in all directions. No surface remains visible of any enclosure in area marked on OS 6-inch map. Indicated as a small circular enclosure on aerial photograph (GSI S.574/3). Small quarry now covered in bushes 30m E of the enclosure. According to local landowner this quarry is referred to locally as a fort. This feature is just a small quarry with no archaeological features visible, however the tradition of a fort may in fact relate to the levelled enclosure which shows up on the aerial photograph. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Farranrory Lower.

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.

No address of the register names Farranrory Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Farranrory Lower · Fearann Ruairí Íochtarach

Area

3,600,569 m² (360.06 ha, 889.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Farranrory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Farranrory electoral division: 453 people in 166 households; 79% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardragh, Coolnashinnagh, Farranrory Upper, Foilmarnell Lower, Foilmarnell Upper, Garranacool, Gortfree, Gortnasculloge, Jessfield

Placenames

Farranrory Lower 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.