# Forthill, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Scrabby, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 869,105 m² (86.91 ha, 214.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,270 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Scrabby, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/scrabby.md - Barony: Tullyhunco - Electoral division: Arvagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Arvagh electoral division: 967 people in 385 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4376 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21109 - Centre: latitude 53.913405, longitude -7.555698 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forthill, from 277 m² to 141,834 m² (14.18 ha, 35.05 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3044064: 141,834 m² (14.18 ha, 35.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3044064.md - Parcel 447122: 127,302 m² (12.73 ha, 31.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447122.md - Parcel 450517: 78,532 m² (7.85 ha, 19.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450517.md - Parcel 466767: 69,955 m² (7 ha, 17.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466767.md - Parcel 468006: 68,686 m² (6.87 ha, 16.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468006.md - Parcel 467992: 66,719 m² (6.67 ha, 16.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467992.md - Parcel 467995: 51,914 m² (5.19 ha, 12.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467995.md - Parcel 447332: 47,720 m² (4.77 ha, 11.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447332.md - Parcel 447330: 42,224 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447330.md - Parcel 467993: 35,650 m² (3.56 ha, 8.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467993.md - Parcel 445201: 32,779 m² (3.28 ha, 8.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445201.md - Parcel 455182: 25,589 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455182.md - Parcel 447126: 17,214 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447126.md - Parcel 481041: 11,326 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481041.md - Parcel 447128: 7,136 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447128.md - Parcel 447124: 7,118 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447124.md - Parcel 464023: 5,268 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464023.md - Parcel 3044004: 5,134 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3044004.md - Parcel 436711: 4,150 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436711.md - Parcel 478231: 2,939 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478231.md - Parcel 464384: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464384.md - Parcel 447127: 2,661 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447127.md - Parcel 467994: 2,660 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467994.md - Parcel 447125: 1,754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/447125.md - Parcel 452467: 1,380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/452467.md - Parcel 461994: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/461994.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Forthill 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) 1 application, newest first. - 23 Jul 2025, Cavan County Council 2560418: N/a. Permission. for the construction of an extension to an existing slatted house building to include covered bays and underground effluent storage tank, internal and external alteration to existing slatted house building and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560418/0 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 Forthill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV030-021: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV030-021----. Raised circular area (int. diam. 46.2m) enclosed by a massive earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. Small circular platform to NW of centre of interior may represent a house site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 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 Forthill. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Forthill. - 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/cavan/forthill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/forthill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/forthill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Forthill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castlepoles: https://everytownland.com/cavan/castlepoles.md - Corduff or Cormore: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corduff-or-cormore.md - Drumhillagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumhillagh-20922.md - Drumshinny: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumshinny.md - Farrangarve: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farrangarve.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/cavan/forthill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/forthill