Fiddane
Fiddane is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnarath, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Feadán.
- Area
- 199.9 ha
- 494 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 13,266 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fiddane, from 568 m² to 712,013 m² (71.2 ha, 175.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Fiddane 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
22 Feb 2024Conditional
a detached domestic garage, detached sensory unit and as-constructed entrance & front boundary wall
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460120
28 Nov 2023N/a
a detached domestic garage, detached sensory room and as-constructed entrance & front boundary wall
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360943
2 Feb 2023Conditional
renovation to existing dwelling house including attic conversion and to upgrade waste water treatment system
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360070
21 Jun 2018Conditional
private extension at side of existing dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600785
18 Apr 2018N/a
a private extension at side of existing dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600463
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Bleanbeg Bog NHA 002450
Recorded monuments
- TN031-059 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. 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
- TN031-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NNW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A raised circular area (diam. 20m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank reduced to a scarp (H 1m) in most places with traces of a shallow fosse visible at SE only. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 1m) at NE. A field fence intersects the site at SW on a NW-SE axis. 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
- TN031-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A sunken circular area (diam. 24m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.5-4m; D 1.5m) and a possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at W. A hollow depression in the NW sector of interior is the result of quarrying. The inner bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 1.3m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1-1.5m) is destroyed by a modern road which intersects the bank from E to S. 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 Fiddane.
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 Fiddane, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fiddane.
- 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
- Fiddane, Newport5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Fiddane · An Feadán
- Area
- 1,998,835 m² (199.88 ha, 493.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnarath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Kilnarath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 376 people lived in 129 households in the Kilnarath electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bleanbeg, Castlewaller, Doonane, Glencroe, Gortacoula, Gortnaskehy, Killeen
- Placenames
- Fiddane 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.