Ford of Ling
Ford of Ling is a townland in the civil parish of Kilscoran, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Áth na Linne.
Parcel 2627617
- Area
- 5,728 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 103 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ford of Ling
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3135 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 26.1 ha
- 64 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ford of Ling, from 135 m² to 54,925 m² (5.49 ha, 13.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ford of Ling 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and additions to existing dwelling including inter
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260902
29 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241339
6 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for alteration to previously granted planning permission
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240115
7 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed demolition of existing habitable house and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220755
30 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following, a rear single storey extentionto dwe
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211529
19 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of alterations and extensions to an existing
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200661
24 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Retention of a domestic garage with associated and auxiliary site works
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200370
23 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSE ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181607
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ford of Ling.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ford of Ling.
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 Ford of Ling, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3135 (ZIP).
- 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 Ford of Ling with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ford of Ling · Áth na Linne
- Area
- 260,510 m² (26.05 ha, 64.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilscoran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Rosslare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygarvey, Churchtown, Drinagh Intake, Rathdowney
- Placenames
- Ford of Ling 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.