# Forest-Town, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carrigtohill, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Fhoiréastaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 504,546 m² (50.45 ha, 124.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,790 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Carrigtohill, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/carrigtohill.md - Barony: Barrymore - Electoral division: Carrigtohill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 8,181 people lived in 2,751 households in the Carrigtohill electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12194 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42632 - Centre: latitude 51.930075, longitude -8.282164 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forest-Town, from 621 m² to 180,659 m² (18.07 ha, 44.64 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4855358: 180,659 m² (18.07 ha, 44.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4855358.md - Parcel 2229010: 162,655 m² (16.27 ha, 40.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229010.md - Parcel 2229009: 147,779 m² (14.78 ha, 36.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229009.md - Parcel 2262140: 4,482 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262140.md - Parcel 2523221: 3,099 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2523221.md - Parcel 2262141: 2,393 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262141.md - Parcel 2229011: 1,964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229011.md - Parcel 5610154: 621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5610154.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Forest-Town 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) 11 applications, newest first. - 7 Sept 2026, Cork County Council 26/2329: Awaiting recommendation. Permission for retention. Permission for retention of (1) Existing attic area converted to habitable space, elevational changes to their existing dwelling house & new rooflights installed to front, side & Rear Roofs of their existing dwelling house, single storey rear extension as constructed, (2) Domestic garage as constructed, (3) Vehicular entrance & site boundaries as constructed and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2329 - 12 Aug 2026, Cork County Council 26/2126: Invalid - prepare letters. Permission for retention. Permission for Retention for (1) Existing attic area converted to habitable space, elevational changes to their existing dwelling house & new rooflights installed to front, side & rear roofs of their existing dwelling house, single storey rear extension as constructed, (2) Domestic garage as constructed, (3) Vehicular entrance & site boundaries as constructed and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2126 - 25 Apr 2014, Cork County Council 14/4857: Conditional. Retention. Retention permission of the existing 26 metre high, free standing communications structure, carrying antennae and communications dishes together with associated ground-mounted equipment within a 2.4 metre palisade fenced compound as previously granted under planning ref. (08/7183). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/4857 - 16 Mar 2010, Cork County Council 10/4598: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling & associated works including new septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/4598 - 31 Jul 2008, Cork County Council 08/8201: Conditional. Permission. Renovation and extension to south western side and single storey extension to north eastern side of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/8201 - 9 Jun 2008, Cork County Council 08/7183: Conditional. Permission. Retention of erection of 25m monopole carrying telecommunications equipment, associated equipment container and palisade perimeter fencing. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/7183 - 25 Feb 2008, Cork County Council 08/4964: Incompleted application. Permission. Retention of 25 metre monopole carrying telecommunications equipment, associated equipment container and palisade perimeter fencing previously permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 00/4528. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/4964 - 29 Apr 2005, Cork County Council 05/2843: Conditional. Permission. Alterations, single storey and two storey extensions to dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/2843 - 18 Jun 2004, Cork County Council 04/4467: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/4467 - 23 Jan 2004, Cork County Council 04/305: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling and domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/305 - 8 Aug 2003, Cork County Council 03/3967: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse and domestic garage/store. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/3967 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 Forest-Town. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO064-088: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-088----. In pasture, on SSW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1918, 199-200) 'On the townland was a circular lios of rather small size; alas its ramparts have been levelled....Destruction of this particular lios is specially to be regretted, as the "fort" had a name - Lios Aimhréidh....' The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 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 Forest-Town. ## 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 Forest-Town, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Forest-Town. - 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/cork/forest-town.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/forest-town.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/forest-town.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Forest-Town with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Anngrove: https://everytownland.com/cork/anngrove.md - Ballinbrittig: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballinbrittig.md - Ballyregan: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyregan-40787.md - Cloneen: https://everytownland.com/cork/cloneen.md - Garrancloyne: https://everytownland.com/cork/garrancloyne.md - Labaun: https://everytownland.com/cork/labaun.md - Springhill: https://everytownland.com/cork/springhill-45130.md - Tibbotstown: https://everytownland.com/cork/tibbotstown.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/cork/forest-town - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/forest-town