Forth Commons

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forth Commons, from 117 m² to 138,216 m² (13.82 ha, 34.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Forth Commons 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.

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Forth Mountain 000761

Recorded monuments

• WX042-079 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated at the tip of a broad NW-SE spur at the SE foothills of Forth Mountain. This is a slate stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims. 0.7m x 0.2m; H 2.2m) aligned SSE-NNW with two perforations near the top and an unfinished one near the base. It was probably an unfinished gatepost, and has been removed since 1989. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 4 July, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Casey's Cross House, farm house, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1924, on a rectangular plan with three-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with concrete sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with limewashed roughcast piers to perimeter having truncated pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.

• Farm house, 1705–1715 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, built 1710, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered off-centred chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners; rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road with roughcast piers to perimeter having precast concrete capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.

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 Forth Commons, 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 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 Forth Commons.

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 Forth Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Forth Commons · Coimín Fhothart

Area

3,313,209 m² (331.32 ha, 818.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kildavin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,818 people lived in 634 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bargy Commons, Corramacorra, Forth Commons, Gaynestown, Gorteenminoge Upper, Knock of The Rocks, Murntown Upper, Shelmaliere Commons, Shelmaliere Commons, Staplestown (Greaves), Staplestown (Ram)

Placenames

Forth Commons 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.