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Forrest Great

Forrest Great is a townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is An Fhoraois Mhór.

Parcel 3006583

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Forrest GreatRathingle
50 m
93 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
78 m²
Buildings
3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 141 m².
Zoning
R2 RS - Residential (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
Townland
Forrest Great

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon
At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
The Geological Survey did not answer.
Terrain model
The Geological Survey did not answer.
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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.

Area
212.5 ha
525 acres
Land parcels
118
registered freehold, median 184 m²
Zoning
R2
RS - Residential
Planning
45
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

Forrest GreatCloghranBrackenstownPickardstownDunbroBarberstownCollinstownCorballisFosterstown NorthForrest LittleForrestfieldsHuntstownRathingleKilleekKnocksedanFosterstown South
1,000 m
160 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forrest Great, from 3 m² to 343,882 m² (34.39 ha, 84.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

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

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 45 applications.

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

Nature and heritage

Designated sites and recorded monuments

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Ground and risks

Radon, landslides, flooding

Radon
At the centre of the townland of Forrest Great, about 1 in 5 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
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Forrest Great.
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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

No address of the register names Forrest Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name
Forrest Great · An Fhoraois Mhór
Area
2,124,596 m² (212.46 ha, 525 acres)
Civil parish
Swords, and its townlands
Barony
Nethercross
Electoral division
Swords-Forrest, the unit of the census
Census 2022
15,926 people lived in 5,334 households in the Swords-Forrest electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Barberstown, Brackenstown, Forrest Little, Forrestfields, Fosterstown North, Huntstown, Killeek, Knocksedan, Pickardstown, Rathingle
Placenames
Forrest Great 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.