Bayland
Townland in the civil parish of Ferns, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Fearann na Bá
- Area
- 120.7 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,366 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bayland, from 846 m² to 322,234 m² (32.22 ha, 79.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Bayland 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
22 Dec 2025Refused
Permission for the erection of a single fully serviced two storey dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251723
2 Jul 2025N/a
Permission for retention for the following; 1) retention of stables, 2) retentio
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250815
17 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extension to the side of the existing grain storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231237
23 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect straw shed and associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230716
31 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing boundary wall surrounding existing premi
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200877
27 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AS A CHANGE TO THAT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171539
14 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR 1. RETENTION OF AN EXISTING SHED (783.79 SQ.METERS) WHICH IS BEIN
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171472
8 Feb 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR 1. RETENTION OF AN EXISTING SHED (783.79 SQ METRES) FOR USE AS A
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170125
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bayland.
Architectural heritage
- The Bay, farm house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (east). Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1971. Resold, 1988. "Restored", 1989. Hipped gabled slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (east) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with threshold, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with cut-granite piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bayland.
- 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 Bayland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Bayland · Fearann na Bá
- Area
- 1,206,975 m² (120.7 ha, 298.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ferns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Kilbora, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbora electoral division: 433 people in 142 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill, Bolinaspick, Camolin, Clologe, Ferns Demesne, Kilbora
- Placenames
- Bayland 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.