Wyestown
Wyestown is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymadun, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhíosaigh.
- Area
- 155.3 ha
- 384 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 4,948 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wyestown, from 263 m² to 249,387 m² (24.94 ha, 61.62 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 58 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jul 2025Grant permission
(1) Blocking up existing entrance to public road servicing existing dw
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0658E
18 Aug 2023Grant permission
The proposed development comprises:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0262
3 Aug 2021Grant permission
Alterations to previously approved development (Reg. Ref. F17A/0752).
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0416
10 Jul 2018Grant permission
The develo0pment will consist of alterations to previously approved pe
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0395
15 Dec 2017Grant permission
The construction of an extension to the existing glasshouse (10,663 sq
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0752
24 Oct 2016Grant permission
Internal and external renovations and alterations of existing farm hou
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0470
21 Mar 2016Grant permission
Dormer bungalow with on site waste water treatment unit and percolatio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0112
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Wyestown.
Recorded monuments
- DU006-004 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a S-facing slope under tillage. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 4.595/4) shows a cropmark of a double-ditched enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m). This is probably a levelled ringfort. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 28 November 2014
- DU007-027 Armorial plaque (present location)
Description
This plaque, originally from the Court at Ballymadun, is located in the threshing shed of a farmyard at Wyestown. The stone is limestone (L 0.57m, Wth. 0.40m, T 0.12m). It bears four shields with cross shields enclosed in two panels with a floral design. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Wyestown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Wyestown, about 1 in 20 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 Wyestown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Wyestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Wyestown · Baile an Bhíosaigh
- Area
- 1,552,599 m² (155.26 ha, 383.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymadun, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Garristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,801 people lived in 529 households in the Garristown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cottrelstown, Folly, Jordanstown, Knockaneek, Nutstown
- Placenames
- Wyestown 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.