Fortel

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortel, from 1,200 m² to 435,062 m² (43.51 ha, 107.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Fortel 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.

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  A new slatted livestock shed including effluent tanks and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460049

• 14 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18120

• 24 May 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17186

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 Fortel.

Recorded monuments

• OF035-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as large oval shaped enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF035-033 Castle - tower house
  Description

  This castle was the residence of John boy O Munehane [Monaghan] in 1582 (Nicholls 1994, vol. 2, 545). In 1650 William Monaghan of Fortel was transplanted to Connaught. The Down Survey barony map of Ballybritt shows a tower at 'Fortalla, Shanvagh and Bealnahuoly' (Loeber 1988 vol. 3, 28). Indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Fortel Castle'. This building has been greatly altered in the eighteenth century with the addition of brick fireplaces and the insertion of wooden floors. Today only the west and southern walls of the L-plan house survive intact standing four storeys high. There is evidence for the wall footings of a corner tower on the north-east angle of the house. The visible medieval features of the castle consist of a flat-headed window in the north wall at first floor level. Originally there was a machicolation at wall-walk level situated off centre to the south on the west wall of the house. This may have protected the entrance below at ground floor level. The remains at Fortel suggest that it was a late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century fortified house that was greatly altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Fortel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1700 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Fortel · Foirtil

Area

4,763,117 m² (476.31 ha, 1,176.99 acres)

Civil parish

Birr, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Dromoyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

361 people lived in 111 households in the Dromoyle electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Boherboy, Castletown, Clonbrone, Clonbrone, Coolnagrower, Derrinduff, Killaun, Kilmaine, Oakleypark

Placenames

Fortel 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.