# Farnees, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Fearnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,811,077 m² (181.11 ha, 447.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,557 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilcommon-shillelagh-ra.md - Barony: Ballinacor South - Electoral division: Tinahely, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55934 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250683 - Centre: latitude 52.807303, longitude -6.50117 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnees, from 151 m² to 380,367 m² (38.04 ha, 93.99 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5180147: 380,367 m² (38.04 ha, 93.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180147.md - Parcel 5377350: 220,221 m² (22.02 ha, 54.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5377350.md - Parcel 1262119: 180,205 m² (18.02 ha, 44.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262119.md - Parcel 1280378: 168,727 m² (16.87 ha, 41.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280378.md - Parcel 1280469: 88,067 m² (8.81 ha, 21.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280469.md - Parcel 1275724: 80,481 m² (8.05 ha, 19.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275724.md - Parcel 2729142: 64,200 m² (6.42 ha, 15.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2729142.md - Parcel 1275730: 48,536 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275730.md - Parcel 1280376: 46,202 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280376.md - Parcel 1280467: 40,152 m² (4.02 ha, 9.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280467.md - Parcel 1280471: 36,922 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280471.md - Parcel 5180785: 28,178 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180785.md - Parcel 1275728: 26,546 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275728.md - Parcel 5180843: 20,627 m² (2.06 ha, 5.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180843.md - Parcel 4636162: 20,133 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4636162.md - Parcel 5377425: 13,448 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5377425.md - Parcel 5180779: 10,557 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180779.md - Parcel 2691348: 6,318 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2691348.md - Parcel 5341240: 5,686 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5341240.md - Parcel 1257210: 3,729 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257210.md - Parcel 1292501: 3,638 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292501.md - Parcel 1278760: 3,392 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278760.md - Parcel 1249180: 3,105 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249180.md - Parcel 1283073: 2,474 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283073.md - Parcel 1289392: 2,360 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289392.md - Parcel 1274369: 1,799 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274369.md - Parcel 1285526: 1,784 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285526.md - Parcel 1283981: 1,717 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283981.md - Parcel 5857603: 1,302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5857603.md - Parcel 5180840: 450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180840.md - Parcel 5180139: 348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180139.md - Parcel 1287314: 268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287314.md - Parcel 1281371: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281371.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Farnees in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farnees. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI038-012: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI038-012----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI038-020----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farnees. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/farnees.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/farnees.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/farnees.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Farnees with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynamanoge: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynamanoge.md - Ballyshonog: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyshonog.md - Bridgeland: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bridgeland.md - Curravanish: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/curravanish.md - Glenphilipeen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glenphilipeen.md - Muskeagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/muskeagh.md - Raheenteige: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheenteige.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/farnees - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/farnees