# Forekill, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clomantagh, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Fuarchoill.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 676,783 m² (67.68 ha, 167.24 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,688 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clomantagh, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/clomantagh.md
- Barony: Crannagh
- Electoral division: Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27494
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 90748
- Centre: latitude 52.702432, longitude -7.526328 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forekill, from 1,019 m² to 305,420 m² (30.54 ha, 75.47 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 840699: 305,420 m² (30.54 ha, 75.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/840699.md
- Parcel 854413: 129,386 m² (12.94 ha, 31.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/854413.md
- Parcel 870762: 121,521 m² (12.15 ha, 30.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/870762.md
- Parcel 823370: 67,952 m² (6.8 ha, 16.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/823370.md
- Parcel 856986: 30,294 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/856986.md
- Parcel 4938669: 6,518 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4938669.md
- Parcel 4609106: 3,688 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4609106.md
- Parcel 869273: 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/869273.md
- Parcel 816770: 2,949 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/816770.md
- Parcel 859862: 2,730 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/859862.md
- Parcel 6067045: 1,516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6067045.md
- Parcel 837917: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/837917.md
- Parcel 4905279: 1,019 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905279.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Forekill 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 Forekill 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 Forekill.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KK012-040: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK012-040----. On a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. An oval area (max. dims. c. 55m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) bounded by low, wide stony flat-topped bank (Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3-0.4m). There is a large, modern entrance at the S. The interior has been divided in two by a stony bank (Wth c. 1m; H above N side 0.2m; H above S side 0.5m) running E-W. The N half of interior is 0.3m higher than the S half. There are footings (T 0.4m) of a stone structure (dims. 6m N-S; 3m E-W), possibly modern, abut the internal bank in the W quadrant, S of the dividing bank. The monument is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019
- KK012-041: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK012-041----. On a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. A circular area (int. diam. 31m) enclosed by flat-topped gravel-rich earthen bank (Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at the SE. Trees and scrub growing on the monument. There is a slight field boundary running around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019
- KK012-042: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK012-042----. On a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. A roughly D-shaped area (int. dims. 26m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by low wide earthen bank (Wth at top 1-2m; overall Wth 5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2m) and fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.2m). There is a very slight outer bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m), though this is probably a more modern field boundary. The E sector is relatively straight. The fosse is best preserved in the N, S and W sectors. There is an entrance gap with a causeway (Wth 2.5m) across fosse at the W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019
- KK012-067: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK012-067----. In a low sand and gravel hillock. A single pit burial, aligned NE-SW, protected by a series of slabs was discovered during gravel-digging in 1986. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 485) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 February 2013

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 Forekill.

## 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 Forekill, 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 Forekill.
- 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/kilkenny/forekill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/forekill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/forekill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Forekill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballynascarry (Gore): https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballynascarry-gore.md
- Garranconnell: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/garranconnell.md
- Glenreagh: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/glenreagh.md
- Mullaunattina: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/mullaunattina.md
- Rathclevin: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/rathclevin.md
- Woodsgift: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/woodsgift.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.

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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/kilkenny/forekill
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/forekill