Forties

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forties, from 294 m² to 188,831 m² (18.88 ha, 46.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Forties 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.

• 26 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a domestic garden machinery shed with associated site w

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240459

• 17 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (1) construction of a garage (previously permitted under

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221525

• 13 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING STRAW BEDDED AGRICU

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190821

• 25 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO DISCHARGE EFFLUENT TO GROUND, FROM PROPOSED 4 NO. DWELLING HOUSES

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160049

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 Forties.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Forties.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Forties with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Forties · Daichead Acra

Area

824,520 m² (82.45 ha, 203.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

The Harrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

The Harrow electoral division: 522 people in 177 households; 85% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintore, Ballyhaddock, Ballynakill, Milltown

Placenames

Forties 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.