# Forest, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilberry, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,281,655 m² (128.17 ha, 316.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,005 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilberry, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/kilberry.md - Barony: Narragh and Reban West - Electoral division: Athy Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,548 people lived in 1,506 households in the Athy Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24874 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80545 - Centre: latitude 53.004307, longitude -6.931482 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forest, from 1,869 m² to 414,354 m² (41.44 ha, 102.39 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1034826: 414,354 m² (41.44 ha, 102.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034826.md - Parcel 1073973: 351,804 m² (35.18 ha, 86.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1073973.md - Parcel 1016964: 195,085 m² (19.51 ha, 48.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016964.md - Parcel 1072313: 80,491 m² (8.05 ha, 19.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072313.md - Parcel 1072213: 58,760 m² (5.88 ha, 14.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072213.md - Parcel 1080876: 53,785 m² (5.38 ha, 13.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080876.md - Parcel 1042669: 43,760 m² (4.38 ha, 10.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042669.md - Parcel 1027330: 34,818 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027330.md - Parcel 1054497: 7,671 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054497.md - Parcel 2658155: 6,338 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2658155.md - Parcel 3930914: 6,234 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3930914.md - Parcel 3930915: 6,073 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3930915.md - Parcel 1054503: 5,503 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054503.md - Parcel 3003964: 4,186 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3003964.md - Parcel 5178802: 4,169 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5178802.md - Parcel 1069452: 4,032 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1069452.md - Parcel 1036916: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036916.md - Parcel 1083805: 1,869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1083805.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Forest 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) No planning application touches the townland of Forest in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD035-073: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD035-073----. 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 Forest. ## 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, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2451, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2451.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/kildare/forest.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/forest.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/forest.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Forest with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardscull: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ardscull.md - Barkersford: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barkersford.md - Foxhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/foxhill.md - Inch: https://everytownland.com/kildare/inch.md - Russellstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/russellstown-81089.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/kildare/forest - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/forest