Fonthill

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fonthill, from 189 m² to 242,258 m² (24.23 ha, 59.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• R2Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Ballinabrannagh Raheendoran Larger Serviced Village, Carlow · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction, of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary sewage treatment system and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560231

• 31 Jul 2025N/a

  the construction, of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary sewage treatment system and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560217

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house (233sqm), domestic garage (55sqm), septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 22167

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 Fonthill.

Recorded monuments

• CW007-041 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 35) shows subrectangular area enclosed by cropmarks of two concentric fosses and substantial bank (est max. dims. c. 90m N-S x c. 60m E-W). Viewed from S, site appears to rise very slightly but there are no other visible indications. Does not appear to be either ring-barrow or ringfort.

• CW007-077 Enclosure
  Description

  'Single-ditched curvilinear enclosure' visible on AP taken by G.F. Barrett (GB 89/CW 7.13).

• CW007-176 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 26m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. See attached photograph: CW007-176----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2019

• CW012-002 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 35) shows cropmark of fairly narrow fosse enclosing approximately circular area (est max. diam. c. 80m). As area enclosed includes steep-sided dip in sharp slope, this may originally have been wooded or landscaped area.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fonthill, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Fonthill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Fonthill · Cnoc an Fhuaráin

Area

634,981 m² (63.5 ha, 156.91 acres)

Civil parish

Cloydagh, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Clogrenan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,138 people lived in 393 households in the Clogrenan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinabrannagh, Killeeshal, Raheendoran

Placenames

Fonthill 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.