# Fortyacres, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Daichead Acra. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 266,727 m² (26.67 ha, 65.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bruree, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/bruree.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Bruree, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,294 people lived in 406 households in the Bruree electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30837 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121001 - Centre: latitude 52.424907, longitude -8.648143 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortyacres, from 60 m² to 127,679 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1657736: 127,679 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657736.md - Parcel 1627528: 73,126 m² (7.31 ha, 18.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627528.md - Parcel 1640653: 20,354 m² (2.04 ha, 5.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640653.md - Parcel 1663460: 11,900 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663460.md - Parcel 1589963: 8,035 m² (0.8 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589963.md - Parcel 1640230: 5,472 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640230.md - Parcel 1622536: 2,771 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622536.md - Parcel 1638628: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638628.md - Parcel 1653626: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653626.md - Parcel 1597744: 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597744.md - Parcel 1650524: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650524.md - Parcel 1596764: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596764.md - Parcel 1627193: 1,970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627193.md - Parcel 3380712: 1,862 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3380712.md - Parcel 1592470: 1,309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592470.md - Parcel 2498651: 431 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498651.md - Parcel 1673505: 322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673505.md - Parcel 2498655: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498655.md - Parcel 2498660: 60 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498660.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fortyacres 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 27 May 2021, Limerick County Council 21728: Conditional. Retention. a domestic garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21728/0 - 9 Apr 2021, Limerick County Council 21459: N/a. Retention. a domestic garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21459/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Fortyacres. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fortyacres. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21804001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21804001. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front (south) elevation and extensions to rear (north) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Flat roofs to extensions. Rendered roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course and quoins. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to rear elevation. Square-headed opening to windbreak having timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile piers to sough with cast-iron single-leaf gate and rendered boundary walls having render coping and cast-iron railings. Pair of square-profile piers to east with double-leaf metal gates. - Water pump, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21804019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21804019. Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1880, comprising banded shaft with spout, handle and domed cap. Foundry mark to shaft. Rubble limestone wall, cobblestones to site and cast-iron hydrant to site. - Water pump, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 21804020, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21804020. Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, with shelf, fluted shaft with foundry mark, spout and fluted cap with acorn finial. ## 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 Fortyacres, about 1 in 20 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 Fortyacres. - 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/fortyacres.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fortyacres.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fortyacres.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortyacres 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) - Ballyhinnaught: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhinnaught.md - Bruree: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bruree.md - Clogher East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clogher-east.md - Clogher West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clogher-west.md - Knockmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockmore.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/fortyacres - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/fortyacres