Farbreaga
Farbreaga is a townland in the civil parish of Moyne, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Fear Bréige.
- Area
- 178.4 ha
- 441 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 17,799 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farbreaga, from 42 m² to 424,971 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Farbreaga 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
2 Apr 2026Conditional
1. renovation of an existing cottage ruins. 2. permission to connect this cottage to the existing dwelling house by way of conversion of existing store room and a new stone finish to the front elevation to provide a partial link. 3. permission to construct infill link. 4. permission to upgrade existing effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2670
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 Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farbreaga.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farbreaga.
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 Farbreaga, 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 Farbreaga.
- 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 Farbreaga with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Farbreaga · An Fear Bréige
- Area
- 1,783,543 m² (178.35 ha, 440.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Coolballintaggart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 528 people lived in 179 households in the Coolballintaggart electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavannagh (Revell), Aghavannagh Mountain, Barnameelia, Blackrock
- Placenames
- Farbreaga 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.