# Ryland Lower, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Réileán Íochtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,739,718 m² (173.97 ha, 429.89 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,507 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/st-marys-newtownbarry-by.md
- Barony: Scarawalsh
- Electoral division: Newtownbarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Newtownbarry electoral division: 2,440 people in 919 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52648
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 242032
- Centre: latitude 52.62908, longitude -6.628557 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ryland Lower, from 68 m² to 429,487 m² (42.95 ha, 106.13 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 381221: 429,487 m² (42.95 ha, 106.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381221.md
- Parcel 5603485: 358,276 m² (35.83 ha, 88.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5603485.md
- Parcel 414317: 290,655 m² (29.07 ha, 71.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414317.md
- Parcel 396637: 191,165 m² (19.12 ha, 47.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396637.md
- Parcel 364753: 73,376 m² (7.34 ha, 18.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/364753.md
- Parcel 418828: 47,221 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/418828.md
- Parcel 392366: 35,038 m² (3.5 ha, 8.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/392366.md
- Parcel 424472: 32,241 m² (3.22 ha, 7.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424472.md
- Parcel 404403: 29,471 m² (2.95 ha, 7.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404403.md
- Parcel 373483: 29,201 m² (2.92 ha, 7.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373483.md
- Parcel 378853: 16,162 m² (1.62 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378853.md
- Parcel 399644: 15,471 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/399644.md
- Parcel 414235: 13,986 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414235.md
- Parcel 414351: 13,597 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414351.md
- Parcel 414269: 13,027 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414269.md
- Parcel 383480: 12,500 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383480.md
- Parcel 400062: 9,398 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/400062.md
- Parcel 424605: 8,816 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424605.md
- Parcel 2686314: 8,574 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2686314.md
- Parcel 390591: 7,908 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/390591.md
- Parcel 393724: 7,106 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393724.md
- Parcel 397855: 6,625 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/397855.md
- Parcel 387323: 6,533 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/387323.md
- Parcel 390559: 5,179 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/390559.md
- Parcel 395649: 5,050 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/395649.md
- Parcel 403715: 4,488 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403715.md
- Parcel 387772: 4,354 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/387772.md
- Parcel 431558: 3,981 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/431558.md
- Parcel 390214: 3,376 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/390214.md
- Parcel 426819: 3,021 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426819.md
- Parcel 2688027: 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2688027.md
- Parcel 402512: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402512.md
- Parcel 418616: 1,508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/418616.md
- Parcel 423606: 1,354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/423606.md
- Parcel 2640576: 851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2640576.md
- Parcel 403714: 652 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/403714.md
- Parcel 418751: 549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/418751.md
- Parcel 422650: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/422650.md
- Parcel 416643: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/416643.md
- Parcel 381736: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/381736.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ryland Lower 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)

9 applications, newest first.

- 2 Aug 2024, Wexford County Council 20240927: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to (1) construct extension to the side of existing dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127573
- 1 Aug 2023, Wexford County Council 20230887: N/a. Permission. Permission for the replacement of an existing fish screen . The proposed work. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125751
- 19 Jun 2023, Wexford County Council 20230685: N/a. Permission. Permission for the replacement of an existing fish screen. The proposed work. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125528
- 7 Jun 2022, Wexford County Council 20220766: N/a. Permission. Permission to install river bank protection measures on lands. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123678
- 25 Mar 2022, Wexford County Council 20220391: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. Permission for retention of first floor extension to existing dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123276
- 5 Aug 2021, Wexford County Council 20211254: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the following : Extension incorporating a New Forklift access cor. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121911
- 20 Dec 2018, Wexford County Council 20181787: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/107716
- 10 Nov 2017, Wexford County Council 20171455: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/104966
- 30 May 2016, Wexford County Council 20160578: Granted (conditional). Retention. 1.ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY BUILDING TO THE NORTH WEST ELEVATION OF THE EX. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/101676

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## 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley, site code 000781

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX009-003001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX009-003001-. Located on a NE-facing slope of the NW-SE Slaney valley. The foundations of a church (int. dims 15.1m E-W; 8.2m N-S) defined by traces of the clay-bonded walls (T 1.2m) and cairns (H c. 0.5m) are at the E end of a trapezoidal graveyard (dims. c. 110m E-W; c. 25-35m N-S) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank. There was an unfinished cresset nearby that was not present in March 2012, but a jambstone from a doorway with a chamfer and pyramidal stop is now present. St Mary's Well, an oval drystone-walled structure (dims 2.4m E-W; 1.9m N-S) at which the pattern was held on 22nd July until c. 1810 according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 244), lies c. 40m W of church within the graveyard. The date of the pattern identifies the saint as Mary Magdalen, a notorious sinner and penitent, who was the first person to encounter Christ after the Resurrection (Butler 1883, 102). The well is still venerated. The church site and the E part of the graveyard are within an oval ecclesiastical enclosure (dims c. 120m NNE-SSW; c. 65m WNW-ESE) which is visible as the cropmark of a ditch or fosse traceable W-NE-SSW on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The cropmark of what might be a bivallate rath is visible on the same image appended to the fosse of the ecclesiastical enclosure at SE. It consists of the cropmarks of two fosses traceable NE-E-SW around a D-shaped area (int. dims c. 32m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE; ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) but the two fosses are not visible inside the line of the ecclesiastical enclosure. The Google features were first reported by Simon Dowling. 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: 5 April, 2012 Amended: 28 February 2020
- WX009-003002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX009-003002-. Located on a NE-facing slope of the NW-SE Slaney valley. The foundations of a church (WX009-003001-) are at the E end of a trapezoidal graveyard (dims. c. 110m E-W; c. 25-35m N-S) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank. St Mary's Well (WX009-003003-) is at the centre of the graveyard and the E part of the graveyard is within the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX009-003004-), while the circular enclosure (WX009-003005-) is probably entirely outside the graveyard to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 April, 2012 Amended: 28 February 2020
- WX009-003003: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX009-003003-. Located on a NE-facing slope of the NW-SE Slaney valley. St Mary's Well, an oval drystone-walled structure (dims 2.4m E-W; 1.9m N-S) at which the pattern was held on the 22nd day of July until c. 1810 according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 244), lies c. 40m W of church (WX009-003001-) within the graveyard of Kilmyshall (WX009-003002-). The date of the pattern identifies the saint as Mary Magdalen, a notorious sinner and penitent, who was the first person to encounter Christ after the Resurrection (Butler 1883, 102). The well is still venerated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 April, 2012 Amended: 13 May, 2014
- WX009-003004: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX009-003004-. Located on a NE-facing slope of the NW-SE Slaney valley. The church site (WX009-003001-) and the E part of the graveyard are within an oval ecclesiastical enclosure (dims c. 120m NNE-SSW; c. 65m WNW-ESE) which is visible as the cropmark of a ditch or fosse traceable W-NE-SSW only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The cropmark of what might be a bivallate rath (WX009-003005-) is visible on the same image appended to the fosse of the ecclesiastical enclosure at SE. It consists of the cropmarks of two fosses traceable NE-E-SW around a D-shaped area (int. dims c. 32m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE; ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) but the two fosses are not visible inside the line of the ecclesiastical enclosure. The Google image were first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 February 2020
- WX009-003005: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX009-003005-. Located on a NE-facing slope of the NW-SE Slaney valley. The oval ecclesiastical enclosure (WX009-003004-) is visible as the cropmark of a ditch or fosse traceable W-NE-SSW around the church site (WX009-003001-) only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The cropmark of what might be a bivallate rath is visible on the same image appended to the fosse of the ecclesiastical enclosure at SE. It consists of the cropmarks of two fosses traceable NE-E-SW around a D-shaped area (int. dims c. 32m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE; ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) but the two fosses are not visible inside the line of the ecclesiastical enclosure. The Google features were first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 February 2020
- WX009-004: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX009-004----. Situated on a rise on the SW bank of the NW-SE River Slaney, with the stream c. 250m to the E and Clohamon castle (WX009-005----) on the other side c. 400m distant. Ryland Castle was owned by Sir Morgan Kavanagh in the early 17th century, and it was acquired by Lord Annesley during the Cromwellian period (Hore 1901-11, vol. 6, 115; Jeffrey 1979, 233-4). It was described by Hore (1901-11, 115) and Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 437) as a gatehouse with a portcullis and hinge stones, possibly confused with the gatehouse at Borris moated site (WX010-002001-) c. 4.3km to the NE. J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 described it as a wall 'twenty paces in length, about fifteen in height and six feet six inches in thickness' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 244). It was damaged by quarrying c. 1900 (Ffrench 1901) and finally removed c. 1980 at which time only one wall with no recorded features survived, but no trace of it remains now in an area where the ground level has been lowered considerably. See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at top right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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: 5 April, 2012

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)

- Ryland House, farm house, 1800–1839, Regional interest, registry number 15700908, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX&regno=15700908. Detached three-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan with single-bay full-height side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now in ruins. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with remains of clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond "wallhead" chimney stacks to rear (west) elevation having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on slightly overhanging slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered coursed rubble stone walls with concealed cut-granite flush quoins to corners; slate hung surface finish to side (south) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, timber doorcase with reeded monolithic mullions supporting reeded monolithic transom, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber panelled double doors having oversailing fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns with two-over-two timber sash windows to side elevations. Interior in ruins 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 overgrown grounds.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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_2847, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2847.zip (ZIP).
- 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/ryland-lower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ryland-lower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ryland-lower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ryland Lower 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)

- Ballyprecas: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyprecas.md
- Ballyrankin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyrankin.md
- Castlequarter: https://everytownland.com/wexford/castlequarter.md
- Clohamon: https://everytownland.com/wexford/clohamon.md
- Coolattin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolattin.md
- Coorduff: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coorduff.md
- Ryland Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ryland-upper.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.

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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.

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