Forrew

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forrew, from 80 m² to 938,815 m² (93.88 ha, 231.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Forrew 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.

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20549

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Forrew Bog NHA 002432

Recorded monuments

• MA029-041 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  This feature was listed in the RMP (1997) as a mound based on information received by the SMR from a local source. It is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It is depicted on the 1922 edition as a roughly oblong enclosed area (c. 75-80m NE–SW; c. 35-40m NW–SE), planted with trees. Field inspection in 1997 determined that it consists of the remains of a landscape feature upon which field clearance stones have been heaped. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 January 2015

Architectural heritage

• Owenmore, walled garden, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1896, on a rounded cornered square plan with part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown slate flagged coping. In use, 1942. Now disused. Set in wooded grounds shared with Owenmore.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Forrew.

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 Forrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Forrew · Foithriú

Area

2,875,998 m² (287.6 ha, 710.67 acres)

Civil parish

Moygawnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Kilfian South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfian South electoral division: 250 people in 92 households; 79% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corravokeen, Correens, Doobehy, Gortnahurra Lower, Knockaculleen, Knockananny, Lecarrownwaddy, Lessanny, Tawnywaddyduff

Placenames

Forrew 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.