Fortwilliam

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortwilliam, from 223 m² to 176,305 m² (17.63 ha, 43.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Fortwilliam 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 Fortwilliam 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Fortwilliam Turlough SAC 000448
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fortwilliam Turlough 000448

Recorded monuments

• LF021-027001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (62.2m E-W; 55.7m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5m; H 1m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.35m). Both the bank and fosse are very degraded due to cattle-trampling. In addition, from W-N-NNE the fosse has been filled up with rubble in recent years. A break (Wth 2.8m) in the bank at S with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. There are also modern entrances at NNE and WSW. Within the interior is a souterrain (LF021-027002-). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a series of low banks, of uncertain significance, outside the fosse which are no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF021-027002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (LF021-027001-). This souterrain was discovered in the 1930s. A contemporary newspaper report (The Irish Press, 4 Nov 1933) recorded a series of chambers, passageways, creeps, steps and air vents and an overall plan resembling the letter H but with the bottom portion of one of the stems missing. An opening (Wth 1.2m; H 0.7m) to a passage remains visible but the passage, which is aligned NW-SE, is blocked c. 2.2m from the opening. The walls are of drystone construction splaying appreciable inwards. They support a roof of flat slabs. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 September 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fortwilliam, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Fortwilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Fortwilliam · Lios Liam

Area

791,654 m² (79.17 ha, 195.62 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmoran, Commons, Commons South, Cullentragh, Formoyle (Farrell), Greenhall Lower

Placenames

Fortwilliam 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.