Farranrory Upper

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranrory Upper, from 21,219 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres) to 371,180 m² (37.12 ha, 91.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Farranrory Upper 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

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  a temporary Meteorological Mast and associated site works that will operate for a further 3 years, it will retain its finished height not exceeding 80m above existing ground level consisting of a lattice tubular frame, guy wires and ancillary equipment

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260696

• 13 Oct 2022N/a

  a temporary Meteorological Mast and associated site works that will operate for a further 3 years. The Meteorological Mast will retain its finished height not exceeding 80m above existing ground level consisting of a lattice tubular frame, guy wires and ancillary equipment

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260554

• 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

• 17 Aug 2020N/a

  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, 20913

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TS049-030 Burial
  Description

  On a S-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with good views in all directions. Ring-barrow (TS049-031----) and burial mound (TS049-032----) 138m and 260m to E respectively. No surface remains visible, field recently ploughed and reseeded with grass. In the early 1900s several burials were uncovered whilst ploughing the field at a depth of 2 and a half feet [0.76m] below the surface of the ground, these burials were left untouched and were covered over (NMI Topographical Files). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-031 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On top of high poorly drained grassland with good views in all directions, nearby burial mound (TS049-32----) 124m to E and burials (TS049-030----) 138m to W. Well-preserved ring-barrow consisting of a flat-topped mound (diam. 3m E-W; H 0.2m; overall diam. 11.5m N-S; 10m E-W) enclosed by an inner fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.2m) and outer bank (top Wth 1.6m; base Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) which intersected at S on an E-W axis. Mound is overgrown with gorse bushes. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-032 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On top of high reclaimed pasture in upland area with good extensive views. Nearby ring-barrow (TS049-031----) and burials (TS049-030----) 124m and 260m to the W respectively. Natural hillock which has been scarped to form a low elongated mound (diam. 25m N-S; 35m E-W-; H 1m) with no enclosing bank or fosse visible. Stone flags visible protruding from top of mound may be remains of cist graves. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-054 Enclosure
  Description

  In wet poorly drained grassland, situated on N facing slope of NE-SW ridge in the Slieveardagh hills with good views in all directions. Overgrown but well-preserved monument consisting of a slightly raised circular area (approx. diam. 20m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by and earth and stone bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 4m; ext. H 0.6m; int. H 0.10m). No clear evidence of an outer fosse or entrance feature. Perimeter of enclosure covered in furze bushes making detailed examination impossible. This small enclosure, in an upland area, may have been reused as a booley site. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-062 House - 19th century
  Description

  This is a 19th-century house associated with the 1848 rebellion. Here the Young Ireland insurgents under the leadership of the Protestant aristocrat, William Smith O’Brien, M.P., besieged 47 police who had barricaded themselves into the McCormack farmhouse taking five children hostage. After a siege lasting many hours which resulted in a number of deaths among the insurgents, police reinforcements arrived and the attacking force retreated. In consequence of this action the house became known locally as the ‘Warhouse’. The house is a National Monument in State care and contains exhibits on the history of the Famine and mass emigration, the rebellion, high treason trials and penal exile of the Young Ireland leaders in Australia and their escapes to the USA. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 September 2012

Architectural heritage

• The Warhouse, house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1845, with central gablet to front elevation, and single-storey lean-to addition to south gable, now in use as museum. Pitched slate roof with eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber double sliding sash two-over-six pane windows and having replacement timber panelled door with upper glazed panel. Door and only three windows to rear elevation. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to rear have pitched slate and barrel corrugated-iron roofs, unpainted rendered walls, and square-headed openings.

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 10 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 Upper.

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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Farranrory Upper · Fearann Ruairí Uachtarach

Area

1,600,963 m² (160.1 ha, 395.61 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

Coolnashinnagh, Farranrory Lower, Garranacool, Garrynagree, Gortnasmuttaun, Kyleballygalvan

Placenames

Farranrory Upper 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.