# Fort West, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Colmanswell, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Daingean Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,920,530 m² (192.05 ha, 474.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 63,463 m² (6.35 ha, 15.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Colmanswell, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/colmanswell.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Colmanswell, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30883 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120999 - Centre: latitude 52.382959, longitude -8.746689 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1674077: 497,995 m² (49.8 ha, 123.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674077.md - Parcel 1650649: 348,489 m² (34.85 ha, 86.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650649.md - Parcel 1617137: 276,096 m² (27.61 ha, 68.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617137.md - Parcel 1617138: 258,604 m² (25.86 ha, 63.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617138.md - Parcel 1649913: 217,406 m² (21.74 ha, 53.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649913.md - Parcel 5529942: 180,308 m² (18.03 ha, 44.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5529942.md - Parcel 1619790: 122,003 m² (12.2 ha, 30.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619790.md - Parcel 1602296: 4,923 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602296.md - Parcel 1617129: 3,941 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617129.md - Parcel 1653563: 3,127 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653563.md - Parcel 1627870: 2,713 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627870.md - Parcel 1627869: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627869.md - Parcel 1608373: 2,416 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608373.md - Parcel 3341434: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3341434.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Fort West 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 Fort West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI046-030: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI046-030----. 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 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 Fort West. ## 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 Fort West, about 1 in 5 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 Fort West. - 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/limerick/fort-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloonmore (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/cloonmore.md - Drewscourt East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drewscourt-east.md - Fort Middle: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-middle.md - Foxhall West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/foxhall-west.md - Gortroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortroe-121167.md - Rusheen (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/rusheen-44925.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/limerick/fort-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/fort-west