Birdstown
Birdstown is a townland in the civil parish of St. Margarets (Forth By), barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Bird.
- Area
- 3.9 ha
- 10 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 4,180 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birdstown, from 1,283 m² to 22,962 m² (2.3 ha, 5.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Birdstown 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
12 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations and extensions to an approved
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251463
24 Oct 2025N/a
Permission for retention and completion of alterations and extensions
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251368
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 Birdstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Birdstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Birdstown.
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 Birdstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Birdstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Birdstown · Baile Bird
- Area
- 38,992 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Margarets (Forth By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Lady's Island, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballare, Ballycushlane Little, Ballyknockan, Eardownes Great
- Placenames
- Birdstown 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.