Forekill

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forekill, from 1,019 m² to 305,420 m² (30.54 ha, 75.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Forekill 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 Forekill 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 Forekill.

Recorded monuments

• KK012-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. An oval area (max. dims. c. 55m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) bounded by low, wide stony flat-topped bank (Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3-0.4m). There is a large, modern entrance at the S. The interior has been divided in two by a stony bank (Wth c. 1m; H above N side 0.2m; H above S side 0.5m) running E-W. The N half of interior is 0.3m higher than the S half. There are footings (T 0.4m) of a stone structure (dims. 6m N-S; 3m E-W), possibly modern, abut the internal bank in the W quadrant, S of the dividing bank. The monument is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. A circular area (int. diam. 31m) enclosed by flat-topped gravel-rich earthen bank (Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at the SE. Trees and scrub growing on the monument. There is a slight field boundary running around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. A roughly D-shaped area (int. dims. 26m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by low wide earthen bank (Wth at top 1-2m; overall Wth 5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2m) and fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.2m). There is a very slight outer bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m), though this is probably a more modern field boundary. The E sector is relatively straight. The fosse is best preserved in the N, S and W sectors. There is an entrance gap with a causeway (Wth 2.5m) across fosse at the W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-067 Cist
  Description

  In a low sand and gravel hillock. A single pit burial, aligned NE-SW, protected by a series of slabs was discovered during gravel-digging in 1986. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 485) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 February 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Forekill, 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

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

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 Forekill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Forekill · Fuarchoill

Area

676,783 m² (67.68 ha, 167.24 acres)

Civil parish

Clomantagh, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynascarry (Gore), Garranconnell, Glenreagh, Mullaunattina, Rathclevin, Woodsgift

Placenames

Forekill 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.