# Ferns, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Fearna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 16,628 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 15,456 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbride, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilbride.md - Barony: Scarawalsh - Electoral division: Ferns, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,598 people lived in 608 households in the Ferns electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52485 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241097 - Centre: latitude 52.587127, longitude -6.479668 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ferns, from 15,456 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres) to 15,456 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 401336: 15,456 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401336.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ferns in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ferns in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX015-037: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX015-037----. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Edward Masterson and a FitzRobert owned land amounting to 600 acres in Upper Ferns, Crory, and the unkown Monedurloge (Moneydurtlow), Aghnemoe (Askinamoe?), Bolinerdroome and Kavanasland (Castleland?) in Ferns parish (Simington 1953, 266). The property contained a Castle (WX015-003001-), a church and abbey (WX015-003004-), a mill in repair, a ruined mill, two bridges on the River Bann, and two weirs. Milltown bridge is a four-arch bridge with arches of equal width, dressed voussoirs, and cut-water piers on the upstream side. It was extant in 1839 (OS map) and is probably 18th century in date. See this web-page accessed on 9 May, 2014 http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May, 2012 Amended: 9 May, 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ferns. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ferns, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ferns. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ferns.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ferns.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ferns.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ferns with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ferns Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ferns-demesne.md - Ferns Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ferns-lower.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/milltown-241660.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ferns - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ferns