# Fonthill, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cloydagh, barony of Idrone West, Co. Carlow; in Irish Cnoc an Fhuaráin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 634,981 m² (63.5 ha, 156.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,350 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing / Infill Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cloydagh, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/cloydagh.md - Barony: Idrone West - Electoral division: Clogrenan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3218 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10270 - Centre: latitude 52.792271, longitude -6.973119 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fonthill, from 189 m² to 242,258 m² (24.23 ha, 59.86 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4343112: 242,258 m² (24.23 ha, 59.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4343112.md - Parcel 803186: 212,445 m² (21.24 ha, 52.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/803186.md - Parcel 800196: 92,686 m² (9.27 ha, 22.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/800196.md - Parcel 800199: 39,266 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/800199.md - Parcel 788277: 15,087 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/788277.md - Parcel 803184: 14,208 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/803184.md - Parcel 803292: 11,152 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/803292.md - Parcel 5915902: 5,547 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5915902.md - Parcel 5915999: 1,804 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5915999.md - Parcel 800197: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/800197.md - Parcel 803185: 1,019 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/803185.md - Parcel 5915961: 625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5915961.md - Parcel 4989553: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4989553.md - Parcel 800198: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/800198.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential): Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Ballinabrannagh Raheendoran Larger Serviced Village, Carlow; 11 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.carlow.ie/en/consultation/carlow-county-development-plan-2022-2028/chapter/chapter-16-development-management-standards ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 8 Aug 2025, Carlow County Council 2560231: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560231/0 - 31 Jul 2025, Carlow County Council 2560217: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560217/0 - 20 May 2022, Carlow County Council 22167: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22167/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Fonthill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CW007-041: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW007-041----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW007-077----. 'Single-ditched curvilinear enclosure' visible on AP taken by G.F. Barrett (GB 89/CW 7.13). - CW007-176: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW007-176----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW012-002----. 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. 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 Fonthill. ## 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 Fonthill, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2409, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2409.zip (ZIP). - 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/carlow/fonthill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/fonthill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/fonthill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fonthill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinabrannagh: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballinabrannagh.md - Killeeshal: https://everytownland.com/carlow/killeeshal.md - Raheendoran: https://everytownland.com/carlow/raheendoran.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/carlow/fonthill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/fonthill