Farnees

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnees, from 151 m² to 380,367 m² (38.04 ha, 93.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Farnees 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Farnees in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Farnees.

Recorded monuments

• WI038-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. 30m) defined by a compact drystone wall (Wth 2m; H 0.8-1.5m) with larger stones forming a basal revetment, very similar to the surrounding field boundaries. No indication of an external fosse, entrance or internal features. The W portion has been removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI038-020 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Depicted as a sub-circular feature (diam. c. 50m) covered in trees on the 1838 'OS 6-inch' map but not shown on the 1907 edition. Now visible as a crop-mark on Bing Maps aerial view (see http://binged.it/1arNqhe). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Farnees, 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 high, 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 Farnees.

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.

No address of the register names Farnees with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Farnees · Fearnaigh

Area

1,811,077 m² (181.11 ha, 447.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 613 households in the Tinahely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamanoge, Ballyshonog, Bridgeland, Curravanish, Glenphilipeen, Muskeagh, Raheenteige

Placenames

Farnees 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.