# Fortwilliam, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilfintinan, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Dún Liam. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 736,127 m² (73.61 ha, 181.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,026 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilfintinan, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilfintinan.md - Barony: Bunratty Lower - Electoral division: Mountievers, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,410 people lived in 471 households in the Mountievers electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7528 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31224 - Centre: latitude 52.7432, longitude -8.751252 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortwilliam, from 106 m² to 249,161 m² (24.92 ha, 61.57 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1448052: 249,161 m² (24.92 ha, 61.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448052.md - Parcel 1510817: 148,339 m² (14.83 ha, 36.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510817.md - Parcel 1429462: 98,461 m² (9.85 ha, 24.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429462.md - Parcel 1510816: 76,238 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510816.md - Parcel 1448051: 63,068 m² (6.31 ha, 15.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448051.md - Parcel 1512563: 30,128 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512563.md - Parcel 1447902: 28,327 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1447902.md - Parcel 1448053: 19,466 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448053.md - Parcel 4880475: 4,284 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4880475.md - Parcel 1481150: 4,071 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481150.md - Parcel 4033582: 3,980 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4033582.md - Parcel 1442128: 2,477 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442128.md - Parcel 1477869: 1,875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477869.md - Parcel 1450428: 1,454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450428.md - Parcel 1468957: 981 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468957.md - Parcel 5796667: 966 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5796667.md - Parcel 1468956: 345 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468956.md - Parcel 1502946: 304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1502946.md - Parcel 1510818: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510818.md - Parcel 1448054: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448054.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fortwilliam 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 22 Dec 2025, Clare County Council 25404: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of the attached garage which is converted for domestic use; PERMISSION to extend the existing dwelling and alter the internal layout and fenestration; PERMISSION to build a new garage and a new ancillary residential unit for the enjoyment of the occupants of the main dwelling and all associated and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/25404/0 - 25 Apr 2025, Clare County Council 2560215: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for development which will consist of the following, (1) The demolition of an existing substandard dwelling house. (2) The construction of a new dwelling house and garage. (3) Decommission the existing septic tank and install a new proprietary waste water treatment system. (4) All ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560215/0 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 Fortwilliam. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL052-034: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL052-034----. 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 Fortwilliam. ## 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 Fortwilliam, 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_841, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_841.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/clare/fortwilliam.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/fortwilliam.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/fortwilliam.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortwilliam 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) - Ballyliddan East: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyliddan-east.md - Ballyliddan West: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyliddan-west.md - Ballyroe: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyroe.md - Castlecrine: https://everytownland.com/clare/castlecrine.md - Corlea: https://everytownland.com/clare/corlea-30831.md - Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockroe-31666.md - Mountievers: https://everytownland.com/clare/mountievers.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/fortwilliam - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/fortwilliam