Forthill

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forthill, from 83 m² to 186,796 m² (18.68 ha, 46.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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.

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND GARAGE ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18295

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Forthill.

Recorded monuments

• MA093-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on the SE-facing slope of a rise, with extensive views NW–N, in an area of undulating grassland. Ground falls away gradually to N towards a natural depression of rush-grown ground, now cut by a drain. An oval area (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E–W), which is not noticeably raised, but incorporates a natural rise at NW–N. It is enclosed at N–SE by an earthen bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m), which is built up at NE to compensate for a natural slope, but is low and degraded at E–SE. It is levelled at SSE–SW to a faint undulation. At SW–NNW the bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.35m) is modified to serve as a field fence. The interior slopes from W–NW down to E–S. A low area (Wth c. 2m) at ENE−E where the bank is reduced to a scarp may indicate the location of the original entrance. Two field fences, one on a NW–SE axis and the other on a NE–SW axis, cross the S half of the interior, intersecting in the centre of the interior. Remnants of another field fence (Wth 1.2m; H 0.35m) cross the W edge of the interior on a NNE–SSW axis. Interior grassy; overgrowth on bank/field fence at W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2022

• MA093-030 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, prominently sited on a hillock with a steep slope to SE–S. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. It is remembered in local tradition as a 'fort'. There is no visible trace at ground level. A house and garden now overlie the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2022

• MA093-106 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, located on a ridge, with a steep fall of ground on the S side giving good views, particularly extensive to S over lowlying, gently rolling grassland, and to SE over an area of bog. Roughly D-shaped, flat-topped platform or mound (7.3m N-S; 5.4m E-W to pit; H 0.7m) truncated on the straight side to W by a sandpit (7m N-S; 6m E-W; D 1-1.5m). A slightly raised stony rim gives the platform a slightly concave profile. A number of large stones, protruding from the sod, form a rough outer facing or kerb at NNW-N. Merging with the E side of the mound is a low, linear berm-like feature (Wth 1m; H 0.4m), which does not extend beyond the mound, possibly the remnant of a N-S field boundary. The section face of the sandpit reveals that the mound is composed of an upper layer (D 0.15m) of jumbled small-medium stones, beneath which is a layer (D 0.3m) of brown sandy soil with occasional inclusions of small stones, pebbles and charcoal fragments. This overlies orange boulder clay which appears to be natural. There is a rath (MA093-029----) c. 200m to NW and an enclosure (MA093-030----) is c. 200m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

• MA093-107 Mound
  Description

  On the level top of a ridge, adjacent to a townland boundary in the NE corner of a rectangular pasture field. A roughly D-shaped mound (5.7m E-W; 3.2m N–S; H 0.7m at S, 1m at N) bordered on the straight N side by an E–W field ditch (Wth 2m) outside which is a field bank/townland boundary. The mound appears to be largely earthen but incorporates some stone. According to local tradition, it may have been used as a children’s burial ground, but no traces of graves or gravemarkers are now evident. It is obscured by gorse. A post and wire fence segregates it from the rest of the field. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

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 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_862 (ZIP).

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. Mayo.

Name

Forthill · Cluain Eascrach

Area

648,067 m² (64.81 ha, 160.14 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Loughanboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughanboy electoral division: 323 people in 131 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barheen, Gorteen Beg, Gorteen More, Moneymore, Mountain, Togher

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.