Fortwilliam

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortwilliam, from 7 m² to 202,376 m² (20.24 ha, 50.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Mar 2026Conditional

  to build a private single storey dwelling with attic accommodation, private garage, served with mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660234

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission to build a private shed/workshop

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460865

• 24 Aug 2022Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING FARM FEED SHED (B) DEMOLISH EXISTING FARM STORAGE SHED(C) CONSTRUCT A 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND PERCOLATION TRENCHES (D) CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22892

• 24 Jun 2022Conditional

  1. RETAIN EXISTING ROOFLESS CUBICLES THEIR AUTOMATIC SCRAPERS, BARRIERS AND FEED PASSAGES, 2. TO APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A ROOF OVER THESE EXTERNAL EASY FEED COW CUBICLE AREAS WITH THEIR FEED BARRIERS AND FEED PASSAGES, 3. TO APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A NEW EASY FEED CUBICLE HOUSE WITH CALVING PENS, 4. TO APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A NEW MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, ROOFED DAIRY HOLDING YARD COMPLETE WITH SLATTED SLURRY TANKS, DRAFTING AREA, CATTLE CRUSH WITH PART OF DAIRY YARD UNROOFED, 5. APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR NEW CALF HOUSE WITH PENNING ON SITE OF OLD CALF HOUSE AND OLD MILKING PARLOUR COMPLEX, 6. TO APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO EXTEND THE SILAGE BASE AND CONSTRUCT A WALL AT THE WEST SIDE, AND INCORPORATE A MANURE PIT WITH WALLS AND EFFLUENT CHANNEL. 7. TO APPLY FOR PLANNING TO CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY SHED. 8. TO APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH OLD CALF HOUSE, OLD MILKING COMPLEX, OLD DAIRY AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORK

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 22671

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT PRE-CAST CONCRETE CATTLE ROAD UNDERPASSES WITH EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT 3 LOCATIONS TO CONNECT FARM LANDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22627

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND GARAGE SERVED WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211036

• 27 Nov 2019Refused

  (1) RETAIN ALL TOPLESS CUBICLES, SLURRY CHANNELS AND FEED PASSGAES THAT HAVE REPLACED OPEN FEED AREAS, (2) RETAIN MILKING PARLOUR EXTENSION AND (3) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A MOBILE HOME ON SITE

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 191205

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT A NEW MACHINERY SHED, (2) TO RETAIN A CUBICLE SHED FOR DAIRY CATTLE, (3) TO RETAIN A SILAGE BASE, (4) TO RETAIN AN EXTENSION TO A CALF HOUSE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19607

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fortwilliam.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-009 Souterrain
  Description

  This souterrain is not marked on any edition of the OS maps. The opening is flanked by five large stones. It is constructed of drystone walling and would appear to run N. This cannot be checked, however, because the tunnel has collapsed. See also Kill (875). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1133. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE021-010 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This site was situated on the crest of a small hill. According to the landowner (O'Leary) the shattered stones were about 1m in height. Today only a wide spread of burnt stones can be seen; no mound remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 81. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fortwilliam.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_101 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Fortwilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Fortwilliam · Clochán Ruairc

Area

1,167,897 m² (116.79 ha, 288.59 acres)

Civil parish

O'Dorney, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Abbeydorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeydorney electoral division: 1,244 people in 458 households; 76% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydooneen, Ballymacaquim East, Ballymacaquim West, Ballysheen, Cahernead, Kilgulbin West, Parknageragh

Placenames

Fortwilliam on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. 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.