# Fortetna, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killonahan, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cathair na Tanátha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 715,262 m² (71.53 ha, 176.75 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,079 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G5 Open Space and Recreation, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killonahan, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/killonahan.md - Barony: Pubblebrien - Electoral division: Crecora, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 461 people lived in 155 households in the Crecora electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/30626 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121000 - Centre: latitude 52.588512, longitude -8.705986 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortetna, from 28 m² to 677,212 m² (67.72 ha, 167.34 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1589805: 677,212 m² (67.72 ha, 167.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589805.md - Parcel 5039388: 22,579 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039388.md - Parcel 1663350: 9,580 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663350.md - Parcel 5039251: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039251.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G5 Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Patrickswell Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024-04/patrickswell-local-area-plan-2024-2030-written-statement_0.pdf - S5 Education and Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Patrickswell Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024-04/patrickswell-local-area-plan-2024-2030-written-statement_0.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Fortetna 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 Fortetna. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI012-091: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI012-091----. Immediately S of farmbuildings on demesne lands of the 18th century Fort Etna House, located 70m to N. Depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map as a grove of trees adjacent to the formal gardens of the house. On this map it is shown as a roughly rectangular-shaped area indicated by a dotted line. Depicted as a semi-circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 26m) on the OS 25-inch map where it is defined by a raised scarp from E through S to N. This map depicts a structure located to immediate N. Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-2013 indicate farm buildings to the N and E with no surface remains visible. Possible landscape feature associated with Fort Etna House. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 22 June 2020 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) - Fort Etna, country house, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21901243, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901243. Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1791. Pedimented and shouldered doorcase with Venetian window with side lights above. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Hipped roof with red brick chimneystacks. Steps up to entrance door. Gable-fronted farm buildings treated as wings. Enclosed yard to rear with lofted stables. ## 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 Fortetna, 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_910, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_910.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/limerick/fortetna.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fortetna.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fortetna.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortetna 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) - Attyflin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/attyflin.md - Ballinroche North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinroche-north.md - Barnakyle: https://everytownland.com/limerick/barnakyle.md - Jockeyhall: https://everytownland.com/limerick/jockeyhall.md - Richmondvilla: https://everytownland.com/limerick/richmondvilla.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/fortetna - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/fortetna