Fortgranite

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Fortgranite, from 497,291 m² (49.73 ha, 122.88 acres) to 497,291 m² (49.73 ha, 122.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Fortgranite 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Fortgranite 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 the townland of Fortgranite.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fortgranite.

Architectural heritage

• Fortgranite House, country house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house built in c.1730, remodelled in c.1815 with single-storey over basement canted bays added to the east and west in 1870. The house is basically square in plan with a recessed bay to the front with projecting tetrastyle Doric portico. The walls are finished in unpainted lined render and rise to a dressed granite parapet with cornice, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has large rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door with large rectangular fanlight and semi-circular headed sidelight windows with one over one timber sash frames. Unlike the sidelights, the majority of the windows are flat-headed, but like the sidelights they all have one over one timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Outbuildings to the rear of the house. The house is set within an extensive well wooded demesne.

• Fortgranite House, gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Romantic toy castle style gate screen and gate lodge to Fortgranite House, built c.1830. The screen consists of a pair of two-stage towers either side of a pointed arch carriageway with a three-bay single-storey gate lodge attached to the rear. The whole ensemble is constructed in rubble with the lower stage of each tower treated as a bevelled base course, dressed granite voussoirs to the gateway, brick dressings of the openings to the lodge and crenellated parapets to all sections. The lodge has a slated hipped roof with granite chimneystack, a pointed arch-headed entrance with timber door, and pointed arch-headed windows with two over two timber sash frames. The towers have pointed arch-headed entrances and blind slit windows. The gateway has mildly decorative iron gates. The gate screen has a roadside setting.

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 Fortgranite, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2810 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fortgranite · Dún an Eibhir

Area

495,295 m² (49.53 ha, 122.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilranelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Talbotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 154 households in the Talbotstown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Englishtown, Killalish Lower, Kilmurry, Kilmurry Lower

Placenames

Fortgranite 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.