# Forest, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish An Fhoraois. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 751,427 m² (75.14 ha, 185.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,327 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: Donore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 486 people lived in 157 households in the Donore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27920 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100572 - Centre: latitude 52.977, longitude -7.467536 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forest, from 944 m² to 201,620 m² (20.16 ha, 49.82 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5410829: 201,620 m² (20.16 ha, 49.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410829.md - Parcel 265505: 21,403 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265505.md - Parcel 259546: 4,647 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259546.md - Parcel 259152: 4,633 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259152.md - Parcel 261487: 4,630 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261487.md - Parcel 266710: 4,420 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266710.md - Parcel 266246: 4,338 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266246.md - Parcel 240413: 4,327 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240413.md - Parcel 228226: 4,292 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228226.md - Parcel 265616: 4,268 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265616.md - Parcel 225080: 4,202 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225080.md - Parcel 261917: 4,184 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261917.md - Parcel 229376: 4,174 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229376.md - Parcel 4900147: 3,314 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900147.md - Parcel 260040: 944 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/260040.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) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 - Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA, site code 004233, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004233 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Forest House Wood, site code 000874 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Forest. ## 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2005, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2005.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/laois/forest.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/forest.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/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. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonard or Cappaloughlin: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonard-or-cappaloughlin.md - Forgeland: https://everytownland.com/laois/forgeland.md - Gash: https://everytownland.com/laois/gash.md - Mountrath: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountrath-100870.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/laois/forest - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/forest