# Forristeen, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 800,242 m² (80.02 ha, 197.74 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,097 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunlavin, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunlavin.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Dunlavin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,580 people lived in 526 households in the Dunlavin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54707 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250690 - Centre: latitude 53.059064, longitude -6.680286 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Forristeen, from 198 m² to 134,189 m² (13.42 ha, 33.16 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5396325: 134,189 m² (13.42 ha, 33.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5396325.md - Parcel 1298750: 107,816 m² (10.78 ha, 26.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298750.md - Parcel 1276960: 101,608 m² (10.16 ha, 25.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276960.md - Parcel 1289204: 99,785 m² (9.98 ha, 24.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289204.md - Parcel 1285166: 93,374 m² (9.34 ha, 23.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285166.md - Parcel 1294506: 84,707 m² (8.47 ha, 20.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294506.md - Parcel 1263870: 54,740 m² (5.47 ha, 13.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263870.md - Parcel 1292232: 43,288 m² (4.33 ha, 10.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292232.md - Parcel 1278449: 29,740 m² (2.97 ha, 7.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278449.md - Parcel 4450404: 16,097 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4450404.md - Parcel 1296168: 13,669 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296168.md - Parcel 1299978: 8,874 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299978.md - Parcel 1279914: 4,781 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279914.md - Parcel 4730867: 2,461 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730867.md - Parcel 4735280: 1,559 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4735280.md - Parcel 4730859: 1,353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730859.md - Parcel 4730797: 1,059 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730797.md - Parcel 4450400: 268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4450400.md - Parcel 4735282: 198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4735282.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Forristeen 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 2 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 25252: Conditional. Permission. erect a 'hurling wall' and an all weather playing pitch with flood lighting to same and ancillary works to our GAA complex. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/25252/0 - 23 Jan 2023, Wicklow County Council 2344: Conditional. Permission. erect pedestrian access and walkway lighting, ducting and ancillary works to our GAA complex. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2344/0 - 24 Jun 2019, Wicklow County Council 19672: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, on site treatment unit and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19672/0 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 Forristeen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI015-017: Anomalous stone group, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI015-017----. Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On a gentle SE-facing slope. A disused quarry pit. No visible surface trace of the two granite boulders described in 1931. (Walsh 1931, 128) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012 - WI015-018: Stone circle, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI015-018----. Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On level to gently S-facing ground in a farmyard. This 'stone circle' is reputed to have stood in front of the present house and to have been destroyed in 1952. It apparently consisted of a ring of forty small boulders ("few over 45cm (18") high") 9m (30') in diameter (ITA Survey 1943; Churcher 1985, 12-13). There is no visible surface indication of this monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Forristeen. ## 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 Forristeen, about 1 in 10 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 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 Forristeen. - 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/wicklow/forristeen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/forristeen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/forristeen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Forristeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Blackhill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackhill.md - Boherboy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boherboy.md - Brewershill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/brewershill.md - Dunlavin Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunlavin-upper.md - Friarhill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/friarhill.md - Tober Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tober-upper.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. --- 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/wicklow/forristeen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/forristeen