Fort West

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fort West, from 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 497,995 m² (49.8 ha, 123.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Fort West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Fort West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fort West.

Recorded monuments

• LI046-030 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet pasture 310m N of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Cloonmore. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible circular enclosure from oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (370) 33). Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) surrounded by marshy ground on Google Earth orthoimage taken on 01/04/2021. See attached ASIAP oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fort West, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fort West · An Daingean Thiar

Area

1,920,530 m² (192.05 ha, 474.57 acres)

Civil parish

Colmanswell, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Colmanswell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

535 people lived in 202 households in the Colmanswell electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonmore (Co. Cork), Drewscourt East, Fort Middle, Foxhall West, Gortroe, Rusheen (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Fort West 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.