Fortyacres

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortyacres, from 60 m² to 127,679 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Fortyacres 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.

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  a domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21728

• 9 Apr 2021N/a

  a domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21459

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 Fortyacres.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fortyacres.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front (south) elevation and extensions to rear (north) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Flat roofs to extensions. Rendered roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course and quoins. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to rear elevation. Square-headed opening to windbreak having timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile piers to sough with cast-iron single-leaf gate and rendered boundary walls having render coping and cast-iron railings. Pair of square-profile piers to east with double-leaf metal gates.

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1880, comprising banded shaft with spout, handle and domed cap. Foundry mark to shaft. Rubble limestone wall, cobblestones to site and cast-iron hydrant to site.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, with shelf, fluted shaft with foundry mark, spout and fluted cap with acorn finial.

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 Fortyacres, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Fortyacres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Fortyacres · Daichead Acra

Area

266,727 m² (26.67 ha, 65.91 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Bruree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,294 people lived in 406 households in the Bruree electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhinnaught, Bruree, Clogher East, Clogher West, Knockmore

Placenames

Fortyacres 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.