Forthill

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forthill, from 26 m² to 124,372 m² (12.44 ha, 30.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 55 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Forthill 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.

• 9 Dec 2025N/a

  stoned area and planning permission for construction of a walled and fenced compound for storing car body parts and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560290

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  for changes to domestic garage/store previously granted under 1616 with amendments to relevant elevations located to the side of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2257

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  the construction of a single storey shed with rooflights to the east and west elevations & all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19220

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Natural Heritage Area: Forthill Bog NHA 001448
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Forthill.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Forthill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Forthill · Fuarchoill

Area

2,275,419 m² (227.54 ha, 562.27 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cashel East electoral division: 278 people in 114 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrevagh, Claras, Cormaglava, Cornadowagh, Cross, Derrindiff, Derrymacar, Drumnee, Newtownflanigan

Placenames

Forthill 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.