Baylestown

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baylestown, from 891 m² to 418,087 m² (41.81 ha, 103.31 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Baylestown 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.

• 16 Oct 2024Refused

  Permission for the erection of an agricultural shed to be used for the storage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241277

• 5 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a 10-year planning permission for development which will consist

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220900

• 6 May 2021Granted (unconditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF VEGETABLE

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160669

• 4 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF A SHED WHICH IS USED TO SERVICE LORRIES AND COMM

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180908

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 the townland of Baylestown.

Recorded monuments

• WX040-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 60m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a NNW-SSE ridge. This is a circular grass and fern-covered area (diam. 27.5m E-W; 26.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank, best preserved at N and S (Wth 6.5 7.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m), and an external, flat bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.5-7m normally to 10m at N; Wth of base 2-4m; ext. D 0.2-0.6m normally to 1.2m at S). There is no recognisable entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 February, 2013

• WX045-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the crest of a NNW-SSE ridge. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (61) 16-18). The perimeter incorporates a curved section of the field bank and townland boundary with Ballygowny SW-N (C c. 40m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 July, 2013

• WX045-088 Field boundary
  Description

  Located at the crest on the W side of the valley (Wth of top c. 120m) of a small N-S stream. The cropmark of what is probably a post-medieval field bank defined by two ditch features is visible on aerial photographs (WX045-088_1 to _ 4) that were taken in July 2006. From the S it swings W and curves NE (C. c. 90m) terminating at both ends at the edge of the valley. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 July, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Baylestown House, farm house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, occupied 1901, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Extended, pre-1922, producing present composition. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves having timber consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Coursed rubble stone wall to front (west) elevation originally rendered; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and red brick voussoirs framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation centred on square-headed window opening with lichen-spotted shallow sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having margins with one-over-one timber sash windows to rear (east) elevation centred on two-over-two timber sash window. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined cylindrical piers to perimeter having ivy-covered domed or pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Baylestown, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Baylestown.

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.

No address of the register names Baylestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Baylestown · Baile an Bháilligh

Area

962,193 m² (96.22 ha, 237.76 acres)

Civil parish

Tintern, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Killesk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

763 people lived in 291 households in the Killesk electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balliniry, Ballygowny, Coolroe, Milltown, Shelbaggan

Placenames

Baylestown 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.