# Fortfergus, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilchreest, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare; in Irish Lios Ceallóg. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 785,960 m² (78.6 ha, 194.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,504 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilchreest, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilchreest.md - Barony: Clonderalaw - Electoral division: Ballynacally, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 231 people lived in 86 households in the Ballynacally electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6881 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31223 - Centre: latitude 52.729813, longitude -9.040233 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortfergus, from 106 m² to 296,744 m² (29.67 ha, 73.33 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1481980: 296,744 m² (29.67 ha, 73.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481980.md - Parcel 1519740: 257,715 m² (25.77 ha, 63.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519740.md - Parcel 3204099: 40,790 m² (4.08 ha, 10.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3204099.md - Parcel 1450427: 20,749 m² (2.07 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450427.md - Parcel 1477155: 16,926 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477155.md - Parcel 1429461: 15,188 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429461.md - Parcel 1438303: 11,559 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438303.md - Parcel 1434091: 11,278 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434091.md - Parcel 1496672: 10,120 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496672.md - Parcel 1479547: 9,814 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1479547.md - Parcel 1497828: 9,671 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1497828.md - Parcel 1500836: 9,623 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500836.md - Parcel 1453636: 9,385 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453636.md - Parcel 1499708: 9,293 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499708.md - Parcel 1503055: 8,579 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503055.md - Parcel 1434913: 7,826 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434913.md - Parcel 1460415: 7,635 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460415.md - Parcel 1509328: 7,606 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509328.md - Parcel 1445463: 6,370 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1445463.md - Parcel 1520273: 5,700 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520273.md - Parcel 1506203: 5,202 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1506203.md - Parcel 1436183: 1,305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436183.md - Parcel 5913948: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5913948.md - Parcel 1435574: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435574.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fortfergus 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. - 14 Nov 2019, Clare County Council 19894: Conditional. Permission. for development consisting of the construction of a new silage slab, loose house and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19894/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 - Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA, site code 004077, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004077 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fort Fergus (Ballynacally), site code 000035 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore, site code 002048 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL050-046: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL050-046----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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 Fortfergus. ## 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 Fortfergus, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fortfergus. - 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/clare/fortfergus.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/fortfergus.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/fortfergus.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortfergus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Crininish: https://everytownland.com/clare/crininish.md - Inishdea: https://everytownland.com/clare/inishdea.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/clare/fortfergus - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/fortfergus