Bishopsland
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Fearann Easpaig
Parcel 370806
- Area
- 287 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 48 m² on the ground
- 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
- Bishopsland
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- No susceptibility class on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2521 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 18 ha
- 45 acres
- Land parcels
- 209
- registered freehold, median 213 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
209 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bishopsland, from 9 m² to 21,389 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bishopsland 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
9 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a domestic storage shed, boundary wall
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260149
25 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a ground floor extension to the side
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251552
24 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the following unauthorised works to an existing re
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241313
16 Jul 2024N/a
Permission for retention for the following unauthorised works to an
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240847
6 Apr 2023N/a
Permission for retention of the following: 1. Alterations to previously granted
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230361
31 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the erection of a porch to the front of existing dw
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220726
28 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for rention for the opening of and enterance at the rear of garden on
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211209
22 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a two storey extension to the side of the exi
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210074
9 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for (a) the proposed demolition of an existing storage building and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200284
27 Sept 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR (A) THE PROPOSED DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING STORAGE BUILDING AND G
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191331
26 Aug 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR (A) THE PROPOSED DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING STORAGE BUILDING AND
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191205
26 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS CONSTRUCTED TO THE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190895
15 May 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS CONSTRUCTED TO THE
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190648
26 Mar 2019N/a
RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS CONSTRUCTED
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190378
15 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171089
24 Jul 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170978
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 Bishopsland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bishopsland.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Refenestrated, ----. For sale, 2005. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having red brick stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Fine roughcast wall to front (west) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends; rendered surface finish (remainder). Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround having stepped reveals framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings originally in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Street fronted with rendered monolithic piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting iron gate.
- Mount Carmel, gates/railings/walls, 1882–1902 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, extant 1902, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of rendered panelled piers having pyramidal capping framing timber boarded double gates with rendered panelled outer piers having pyramidal capping framing timber boarded gates. Street fronted at entrance to grounds of Mount Carmel.
- House, 1842–1881 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1881, on a rectangular plan. Refenestrated, 2006. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two sash windows. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
- House, 1842–1881 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1881, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (east) elevation retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered wall (ground floor) on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends; rendered surface finish (first floor). Square-headed central door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule retaining timber boarded walls; square-headed door opening into hall with glazed timber panelled door; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber boarded reveals to window openings. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
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
- 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2521 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bishopsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Bishopsland · Fearann Easpaig
- Area
- 180,138 m² (18.01 ha, 44.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- New Ross Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- New Ross Urban electoral division: 3,961 people in 1,796 households; 50% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Irishtown, New Ross, Pondfields, Redhouse, Southknock, Stephensland, Trianglepark, Verosland
- Placenames
- Bishopsland 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.