Forristeen

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forristeen, from 198 m² to 134,189 m² (13.42 ha, 33.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Forristeen 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.

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  erect a 'hurling wall' and an all weather playing pitch with flood lighting to same and ancillary works to our GAA complex

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25252

• 23 Jan 2023Conditional

  erect pedestrian access and walkway lighting, ducting and ancillary works to our GAA complex

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2344

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  dwelling, on site treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19672

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 Forristeen.

Recorded monuments

• WI015-017 Anomalous stone group
  Description

  Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On a gentle SE-facing slope. A disused quarry pit. No visible surface trace of the two granite boulders described in 1931. (Walsh 1931, 128) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012

• WI015-018 Stone circle
  Description

  Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On level to gently S-facing ground in a farmyard. This 'stone circle' is reputed to have stood in front of the present house and to have been destroyed in 1952. It apparently consisted of a ring of forty small boulders ("few over 45cm (18") high") 9m (30') in diameter (ITA Survey 1943; Churcher 1985, 12-13). There is no visible surface indication of this monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Forristeen, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Forristeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Forristeen

Area

800,242 m² (80.02 ha, 197.74 acres)

Civil parish

Dunlavin, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Dunlavin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,580 people lived in 526 households in the Dunlavin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackhill, Boherboy, Brewershill, Dunlavin Upper, Friarhill, Tober Upper

Placenames

Forristeen 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.