Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Farranree has 19 buildings on the National Inventory
Farranree has kept more old homes than most towns: 14% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1720. Farranree has 50 buildings on the record for every 10,000 residents, against 48 in the typical town.
typical town: 48
Old buildings of Farranree
The photo shows Church of the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church, one of Farranree’s recorded places.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Where Farranree’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
19 historic places in Farranree
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 9, A to Z
10 recorded by their type and address
10 are recorded only by their type and address: 10 homes; most date from the 19th century.
More homes than anything else in Farranree: 63%
The variety is wide in Farranree: 5 kinds of building on the record. Second on the record: public buildings, 3 of them. At the top of the record: Dennehy’s Fish Shop and Farranferris Educational Campus.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Farranree’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
4 of the 19 dated ones were built before 1800. The oldest is Dennehy’s Fish Shop, from 1720.
Farranree’s building boom came from 1946 to 1980: 37% of its homes
In most towns 24% of homes were built from 1981 to 2000; in Farranree only 9.9%. Building between the wars went further in Farranree than in most towns: 20%, against 3.9%. Few of Farranree’s homes date in the 2000s: 12%, the norm 25%.
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Farranree and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farranree | 3,824 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Blackpool | 3,124 | 69 | 0 | 2 |
| Fair Hill | 4,910 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Shandon | 3,539 | 196 | 5 | 9 |
| Gurranebraher | 4,502 | 31 | 0 | 1 |
| The Glen | 6,119 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Cork City Centre | 3,701 | 671 | 14 | 19 |
Farranree in brief
Old houses are part of Farranree’s character: 14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. All told, the list holds 19 places on the record. Most entries on the list, 63%, are homes.
Most of its dated monuments come from the 19th century: 10 of 19. The oldest, Dennehy’s Fish Shop, dates from 1720. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has 19 recorded buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 24); and per resident it sits near the middle of Irish towns of 2,500 or more.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Farranree’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Farranree?
19 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Farranree?
Dennehy’s Fish Shop: the first date on its record is 1720.
How old are the homes in Farranree?
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).