Forest

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forest, from 323 m² to 300,017 m² (30 ha, 74.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Forest 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.

• 9 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention and completion of the erection of domestic garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231356

• 20 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission for retention and completion of the erection of a domestic garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231254

• 16 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOU

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180972

• 2 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, AND ERECT A REPLACEMENT FULLY SE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180005

• 4 Dec 2017N/a

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, AND ERECT A REPLACEMENT FULLY SE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171587

• 7 Oct 2016Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 24M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE STRUCTUR

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161109

• 8 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161004

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 Forest.

Recorded monuments

• WX036-061 Burial ground
  Description

  The Society of Friends established a meeting at Forrest, alternatively known as Lambstown, in 1666, although its Meeting House was not built there until 1783 on land leased to Jacob Goff and the Friends by Issac Cullimore of Newtown. In 1841 Forest was united with the Wexford town meeting (Butler, D. M. 2004, 64). The Meeting House and attached burial ground are located towards the top of an E-facing slope c. 1 km NE of Taghmon. They are in a sub-rectangular plot (dims. 80m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) with a masonry wall (H 2m) and a large entrance gate with piers on the SE, or road side. The plot is divided in two by a NE-SW wall and the Meeting House was in the smaller (dim. 27m NW-SE), road-side plot. The meeting house is removed without trace, apart from the bases of two granite columns. The burial ground was behind the meeting house and burial is represented by c. 130 grave-mounds, but only c. 10 headstones dating from c. 1860-1920 are present. Compiled by: Michael Moore

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Burial ground, opened 1783. Set in unkempt grounds with cylindrical piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting replacement tubular steel "farm 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 Forest, 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 high, 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 Forest.

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

Name

Forest · An Fhoraois

Area

924,082 m² (92.41 ha, 228.35 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,201 people lived in 444 households in the Taghmon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintarton, Ballyhennigan, Brownscastle, Furlongstown, Oldboley, Poulmarl

Placenames

Forest 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.