Forkill

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forkill, from 2,955 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) to 379,783 m² (37.98 ha, 93.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: 1) to constructed pitched roof over existing single storey flat roof to the rear of existing two storey dwelling , (2) to construct two storey and part single storey extension to the side / front of existing two storey house two storey house, (3) to close up and de-commission an existing septic tank and soak pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, (4) all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560800

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 Forkill.

Recorded monuments

• ME009-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a knoll at the W foothills of the Slieve na Calliagh ridge. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 1-3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) E-S-W, with sight traces of a fosse (Wth 2m) visible as lush grass growth at SE. The perimeter is reduced to a scarp (at N: Wth 3m; H 0.4m) W-N-E. There is no identifiable original entrance. It is visible on digitalglobe images. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 2 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Forkill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Forkill

Area

697,098 m² (69.71 ha, 172.26 acres)

Civil parish

Loughcrew, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Oldcastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oldcastle electoral division: 2,333 people in 896 households; 64% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnbane, Drumsawry or Summerbank, Glebe, Knockbrack, Tubride

Placenames

Forkill 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.