Fortchester Lower
Fortchester Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Dún Chichester Íochtarach.
Parcel 4866991
- Area
- 57,947 m² (5.79 ha, 14.32 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 180 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Fortchester Lower
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 119.3 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortchester Lower, from 237 m² to 401,844 m² (40.18 ha, 99.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Fortchester Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to make alterations to existing dwelling and permission to erect an e
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250837
10 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to (1) make alterations and erect an extension to the side
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241095
4 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services & domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211545
17 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO (1) ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) REMOVE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191284
16 Jan 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO (1) ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) REMOVE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190038
5 Dec 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO (1) ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) REMOVE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181671
15 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160133
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 Fortchester Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fortchester Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fortchester Lower.
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 Fortchester Lower, 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 Fortchester Lower.
- 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 Fortchester Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Fortchester Lower · Dún Chichester Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,193,457 m² (119.35 ha, 294.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Coolgreany, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,199 people lived in 420 households in the Coolgreany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconlore, Bolabradda, Boleybaun, Coolnagloose, Corcanon, Fortchester Upper, Gorteen Upper, Perrymount
- Placenames
- Fortchester Lower 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.