# Forrew, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moygawnagh, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Foithriú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,875,998 m² (287.6 ha, 710.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,470 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Moygawnagh, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/moygawnagh.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Kilfian South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34476 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151725 - Centre: latitude 54.156409, longitude -9.390296 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forrew, from 80 m² to 938,815 m² (93.88 ha, 231.99 acres); 39 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1003890: 938,815 m² (93.88 ha, 231.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003890.md - Parcel 991065: 230,832 m² (23.08 ha, 57.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991065.md - Parcel 910323: 203,361 m² (20.34 ha, 50.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910323.md - Parcel 876602: 142,862 m² (14.29 ha, 35.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/876602.md - Parcel 943637: 142,195 m² (14.22 ha, 35.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943637.md - Parcel 888371: 133,967 m² (13.4 ha, 33.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888371.md - Parcel 5098874: 105,500 m² (10.55 ha, 26.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5098874.md - Parcel 985633: 71,846 m² (7.18 ha, 17.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985633.md - Parcel 937041: 62,503 m² (6.25 ha, 15.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937041.md - Parcel 977418: 54,422 m² (5.44 ha, 13.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977418.md - Parcel 6163188: 52,668 m² (5.27 ha, 13.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6163188.md - Parcel 5917279: 50,965 m² (5.1 ha, 12.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5917279.md - Parcel 996143: 46,321 m² (4.63 ha, 11.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/996143.md - Parcel 994223: 43,505 m² (4.35 ha, 10.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/994223.md - Parcel 5069821: 42,466 m² (4.25 ha, 10.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5069821.md - Parcel 1006728: 40,640 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006728.md - Parcel 1008873: 39,037 m² (3.9 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008873.md - Parcel 871468: 34,293 m² (3.43 ha, 8.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871468.md - Parcel 884361: 28,469 m² (2.85 ha, 7.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884361.md - Parcel 911377: 27,956 m² (2.8 ha, 6.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911377.md - Parcel 917235: 27,062 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917235.md - Parcel 877721: 26,701 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/877721.md - Parcel 875737: 23,470 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/875737.md - Parcel 898743: 20,988 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898743.md - Parcel 5083018: 20,513 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083018.md - Parcel 980727: 17,552 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980727.md - Parcel 930365: 17,505 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930365.md - Parcel 5099072: 15,700 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099072.md - Parcel 937997: 13,592 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937997.md - Parcel 977823: 11,842 m² (1.18 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977823.md - Parcel 879314: 9,283 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/879314.md - Parcel 5917299: 8,901 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5917299.md - Parcel 903993: 7,485 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903993.md - Parcel 989895: 6,816 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/989895.md - Parcel 5993837: 5,208 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5993837.md - Parcel 997529: 4,660 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997529.md - Parcel 4748240: 4,090 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4748240.md - Parcel 1010401: 3,941 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1010401.md - Parcel 921370: 1,202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/921370.md - Parcel 5917319: 869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5917319.md - Parcel 5940933: 861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5940933.md - Parcel 942784: 705 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/942784.md - Parcel 5917328: 353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5917328.md - Parcel 6102457: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6102457.md - Parcel 5917321: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5917321.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 6 Aug 2020, Mayo County Council 20549: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20549/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Natural Heritage Area: Forrew Bog NHA, site code 002432, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/002432 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA029-041: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA029-041----. 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 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) - Owenmore, walled garden, 1840–1896, Regional interest, registry number 31302905, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31302905. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/mayo/forrew.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/forrew.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/forrew.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Forrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corravokeen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/corravokeen.md - Correens: https://everytownland.com/mayo/correens.md - Doobehy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/doobehy.md - Gortnahurra Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortnahurra-lower.md - Knockaculleen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockaculleen.md - Knockananny: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockananny.md - Lecarrownwaddy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lecarrownwaddy.md - Lessanny: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lessanny.md - Tawnywaddyduff: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnywaddyduff.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/mayo/forrew - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/forrew