Forest Lower

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forest Lower, from 815 m² to 414,570 m² (41.46 ha, 102.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Forest Lower 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.

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct log cabin with new septic tank and percolation area and for retention of existing mobile home on site for the duration of the project

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560627

• 12 May 2025Refused

  retain existing Garage including Stables with new site Entrance and Planning Permission for a Proposed Dwelling House, Secondary Treatment System & soil polishing filter and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560282

• 15 Apr 2024Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, entrance, on-site effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460191

• 28 Nov 2023N/a

  Retain 2 no Cubicle sheds, Slurry Lagoon, Silage Pit and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360504

• 4 Apr 2023Conditional

  construct new agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360127

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1)construct dwelling house, detached domestic garage/shed, waste water treatment system and all associated site works; (2) remove existing foundations/substructure

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20467

• 17 Feb 2020Refused

  construct up to 8 no. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 185 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas; 1 no. on-site electrical substation; 1 no. temporary construction compound; all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site electrical substation; provision of new site access tracks and upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage; erection of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of up to 110m in heights; works to facilitate the delivery of turbines adjacent to the N80 within the townlands of Dernacart and Forest Upper to include the laying of temporary surfacing; tree felling; and all associated site development works, ancillary works and equipment. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years and an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning of the entire wind farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2078

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  construct a cattle underpass to the L20978 road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1833

• 19 Jun 2017N/a

  construct (1) a cattle underpass to the L20978 road, this will require raising the road level and installing roadside safety barriers. (2) All associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17315

• 29 May 2017N/a

  construct (1) a cattle underpass to the L20978 road, this will require raising the road level and installing roadside safety barriers. (2) All associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17260

• 8 May 2017N/a

  (1) construct a cubicle shed. (2) Construct a cubicle shed adjacent to existing unroofed fed area/stand off yard. (3) Construct an extension to existing milking parlour collection yard. (4) Construct 2nd concrete aprons to be used as silage storage areas. (5) All associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17224

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Forest Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Forest Lower, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Forest Lower.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Forest Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Forest Lower · An Foraois Íochtarach

Area

3,473,050 m² (347.31 ha, 858.21 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Graigue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 89 households in the Graigue electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barranaghs (Co. Offaly), Forest Upper, Garrymore, Strahard, Townparks

Placenames

Forest Lower 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.