Oaklands
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Na Feá
- Area
- 69.3 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 100 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oaklands, from 2 m² to 10,479 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Oaklands 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
17 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for development to construct a residential scheme at a site of
Permission, 44 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260190
28 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for changes to development permitted previously under Planning Reg.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250352
14 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a single storey extension to the rear of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240146
23 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (a) changes to a single storey as constructed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230051
6 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of 4 No. buildings as constructed consisting of 2 No. s
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211892
29 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all assoc
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211229
13 Apr 2016N/a
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION (C&D) RECYCLING FACILITY WHERE CERTAIN CLASSES OF CO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160366
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Oaklands Wood 000774
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oaklands.
Architectural heritage
- Oaklands House, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of detached seven-bay two-storey over basement country house, extant 1840, on a H- or U-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey projecting end bays centred on (single-storey) prostyle Tuscan colonnade to ground floor; four-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Burnt, 1957. Demolished, 1958. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Oaklands House, walled garden, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Walled garden, extant 1840, on a square plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in grounds originally shared with Oaklands House.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2474 (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 Oaklands with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Oaklands · Na Feá
- Area
- 693,438 m² (69.34 ha, 171.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- New Ross Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- New Ross Rural electoral division: 4,164 people in 1,475 households; 52% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Camlin, Knockmullin, Marshmeadows, Southknock
- Placenames
- Oaklands 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.