# Fortel, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Birr, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Foirtil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,763,117 m² (476.31 ha, 1,176.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 53,966 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Birr, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/birr.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Dromoyle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41267 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180667 - Centre: latitude 53.083355, longitude -7.834904 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortel, from 1,200 m² to 435,062 m² (43.51 ha, 107.51 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 288488: 435,062 m² (43.51 ha, 107.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288488.md - Parcel 4222205: 389,490 m² (38.95 ha, 96.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222205.md - Parcel 311248: 319,448 m² (31.94 ha, 78.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311248.md - Parcel 272409: 303,237 m² (30.32 ha, 74.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272409.md - Parcel 4903113: 302,514 m² (30.25 ha, 74.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903113.md - Parcel 312988: 283,693 m² (28.37 ha, 70.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312988.md - Parcel 294889: 174,782 m² (17.48 ha, 43.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294889.md - Parcel 287954: 154,791 m² (15.48 ha, 38.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287954.md - Parcel 276702: 128,556 m² (12.86 ha, 31.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276702.md - Parcel 307953: 120,558 m² (12.06 ha, 29.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307953.md - Parcel 313219: 120,111 m² (12.01 ha, 29.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313219.md - Parcel 289097: 116,608 m² (11.66 ha, 28.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289097.md - Parcel 308582: 114,636 m² (11.46 ha, 28.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308582.md - Parcel 4957829: 107,770 m² (10.78 ha, 26.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4957829.md - Parcel 302480: 105,969 m² (10.6 ha, 26.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302480.md - Parcel 313863: 102,674 m² (10.27 ha, 25.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313863.md - Parcel 300911: 98,842 m² (9.88 ha, 24.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300911.md - Parcel 6125455: 98,815 m² (9.88 ha, 24.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6125455.md - Parcel 314388: 97,711 m² (9.77 ha, 24.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314388.md - Parcel 283947: 95,696 m² (9.57 ha, 23.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283947.md - Parcel 314553: 94,096 m² (9.41 ha, 23.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314553.md - Parcel 4952217: 93,713 m² (9.37 ha, 23.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952217.md - Parcel 275216: 83,531 m² (8.35 ha, 20.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275216.md - Parcel 297988: 78,604 m² (7.86 ha, 19.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297988.md - Parcel 307813: 73,446 m² (7.34 ha, 18.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307813.md - Parcel 282313: 65,524 m² (6.55 ha, 16.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282313.md - Parcel 304075: 65,226 m² (6.52 ha, 16.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304075.md - Parcel 296035: 61,424 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296035.md - Parcel 271970: 60,302 m² (6.03 ha, 14.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271970.md - Parcel 301306: 53,966 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301306.md - Parcel 296949: 50,523 m² (5.05 ha, 12.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296949.md - Parcel 313358: 44,854 m² (4.49 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313358.md - Parcel 293174: 34,428 m² (3.44 ha, 8.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293174.md - Parcel 307829: 31,156 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307829.md - Parcel 314406: 29,430 m² (2.94 ha, 7.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314406.md - Parcel 5160229: 29,312 m² (2.93 ha, 7.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160229.md - Parcel 300258: 27,260 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300258.md - Parcel 303877: 20,018 m² (2 ha, 4.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303877.md - Parcel 6125441: 17,555 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6125441.md - Parcel 296994: 9,872 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296994.md - Parcel 308823: 7,569 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308823.md - Parcel 4663129: 6,720 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4663129.md - Parcel 4957828: 5,217 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4957828.md - Parcel 273351: 4,714 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273351.md - Parcel 4449502: 4,359 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4449502.md - Parcel 313249: 4,075 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313249.md - Parcel 4662293: 4,030 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4662293.md - Parcel 310071: 3,936 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310071.md - Parcel 5160250: 3,810 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160250.md - Parcel 269832: 3,500 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269832.md - Parcel 272667: 3,204 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272667.md - Parcel 295609: 2,777 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295609.md - Parcel 283969: 2,595 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283969.md - Parcel 2471664: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471664.md - Parcel 4661722: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661722.md - Parcel 302391: 1,577 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/302391.md - Parcel 298661: 1,538 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298661.md - Parcel 303308: 1,346 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303308.md - Parcel 271537: 1,200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271537.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 23 Feb 2024, Offaly County Council 2460049: Conditional. Permission. A new slatted livestock shed including effluent tanks and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460049/0 - 14 Mar 2018, Offaly County Council 18120: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18120/0 - 24 May 2017, Offaly County Council 17186: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17186/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fortel. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF035-026: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-026----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-033----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fortel. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1700.zip (ZIP). - 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/offaly/fortel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fortel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fortel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinree: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinree-180080.md - Boherboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boherboy.md - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/castletown-180326.md - Clonbrone: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonbrone-180375.md - Clonbrone: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonbrone-180376.md - Coolnagrower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnagrower.md - Derrinduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrinduff.md - Killaun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killaun.md - Kilmaine: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmaine.md - Oakleypark: https://everytownland.com/offaly/oakleypark.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/offaly/fortel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/fortel