# Forest, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Taghmon, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Fhoraois.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 924,082 m² (92.41 ha, 228.35 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Taghmon, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/taghmon.md
- Barony: Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division: Taghmon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54471
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241111
- Centre: latitude 52.33251, longitude -6.639696 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forest, from 323 m² to 300,017 m² (30 ha, 74.14 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 428384: 300,017 m² (30 ha, 74.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/428384.md
- Parcel 361197: 118,172 m² (11.82 ha, 29.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361197.md
- Parcel 2413157: 75,190 m² (7.52 ha, 18.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2413157.md
- Parcel 374140: 64,968 m² (6.5 ha, 16.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374140.md
- Parcel 423011: 53,346 m² (5.33 ha, 13.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423011.md
- Parcel 386389: 46,047 m² (4.6 ha, 11.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386389.md
- Parcel 400223: 37,442 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/400223.md
- Parcel 385011: 34,181 m² (3.42 ha, 8.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/385011.md
- Parcel 389979: 26,693 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/389979.md
- Parcel 363503: 18,097 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363503.md
- Parcel 386199: 17,661 m² (1.77 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386199.md
- Parcel 3925372: 15,359 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3925372.md
- Parcel 363668: 11,878 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363668.md
- Parcel 410835: 10,450 m² (1.05 ha, 2.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410835.md
- Parcel 380719: 8,721 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380719.md
- Parcel 383084: 8,615 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383084.md
- Parcel 429468: 8,499 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/429468.md
- Parcel 3925419: 4,995 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3925419.md
- Parcel 2413199: 4,722 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2413199.md
- Parcel 2413191: 4,702 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2413191.md
- Parcel 2413193: 4,539 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2413193.md
- Parcel 402821: 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402821.md
- Parcel 375610: 3,333 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/375610.md
- Parcel 417811: 3,156 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417811.md
- Parcel 2390538: 3,102 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390538.md
- Parcel 383612: 3,091 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383612.md
- Parcel 424008: 2,998 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424008.md
- Parcel 2648171: 2,622 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2648171.md
- Parcel 426625: 2,574 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426625.md
- Parcel 366675: 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/366675.md
- Parcel 383789: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383789.md
- Parcel 1540746: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1540746.md
- Parcel 408468: 1,963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/408468.md
- Parcel 426689: 1,875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/426689.md
- Parcel 383261: 1,649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/383261.md
- Parcel 390578: 1,643 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/390578.md
- Parcel 400919: 1,332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/400919.md
- Parcel 388347: 1,196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388347.md
- Parcel 385271: 1,022 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/385271.md
- Parcel 425940: 964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/425940.md
- Parcel 426249: 667 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/426249.md
- Parcel 410558: 353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/410558.md
- Parcel 422209: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/422209.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

7 applications, newest first.

- 9 Nov 2023, Wexford County Council 20231356: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention and completion of the erection of domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126255
- 20 Oct 2023, Wexford County Council 20231254: N/a. Retention. Permission for retention and completion of the erection of a domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126146
- 16 Jul 2018, Wexford County Council 20180972: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOU. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106646
- 2 Jan 2018, Wexford County Council 20180005: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, AND ERECT A REPLACEMENT FULLY SE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105363
- 4 Dec 2017, Wexford County Council 20171587: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, AND ERECT A REPLACEMENT FULLY SE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105121
- 7 Oct 2016, Wexford County Council 20161109: Refused. Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 24M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE STRUCTUR. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102493
- 8 Sept 2016, Wexford County Council 20161004: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102334

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Forest.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX036-061: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX036-061----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Graveyard/cemetery, 1780–1785, Regional interest, registry number 15703614, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX&regno=15703614. Burial ground, opened 1783. Set in unkempt grounds with cylindrical piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting replacement tubular steel "farm gate".

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/forest.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/forest.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/forest.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Forest with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballintarton: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballintarton.md
- Ballyhennigan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyhennigan.md
- Brownscastle: https://everytownland.com/wexford/brownscastle.md
- Furlongstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/furlongstown.md
- Oldboley: https://everytownland.com/wexford/oldboley.md
- Poulmarl: https://everytownland.com/wexford/poulmarl.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/forest
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/forest