Forkeala

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forkeala, from 265,718 m² (26.57 ha, 65.66 acres) to 4,138,757 m² (413.88 ha, 1,022.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Forkeala 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.

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  the replacement of an existing 18m monopole (total height including antennas 21m) with a new 30 metre multiuser lattice type telecommunications support structure with headframe, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within an extended 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound with associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22400

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Forkeala.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Forkeala with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Forkeala · Fóir Chéile

Area

4,413,454 m² (441.35 ha, 1,090.59 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Glenstal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,240 people lived in 383 households in the Glenstal electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buffanoky, Falleenadatha, Gleno, Gleno Newtown, Muingacree, Reardnogy Beg (Co. Tipperary), Tooreenbrien Lower (Co. Tipperary), Tooreenbrien Upper (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Forkeala 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.