TAY-AC

        During the early days, a larger portion part of the Barangay was planted with trees and only a minute area was suitable for farming or cultivation.  Only sugar cane and camote crops could then be planted, so what the people did was to cut-off hundred of trees and what revealed thereafter was a large agricultural land.  To call that in Ilocano parlance is ‘tay-ac’, a wide, plain and spacious area of tillable land.

        Barangay An-annam was formerly a sitio (at page 40 supra) but due to the vastness of Brgy. Tay-ac and in order to hasten delivery of administrative services, An-annam was constituted as a separate barrio in 1959.  Now, with 1,102 registered voters, Tay-ac is still the second largest in terms of voting population, next to Brgy. Bulag, and considered as a fortress for purposes of local elections. It consists of seven (7) sitios namely: Hidalgo, Piga, Madriaga, Pinto, Portuguese-Herrera, Duque-Paz and Lopez-Pula

        It is regarded as the ‘vegetable bowl’ of Bantay for it supplies the town and other neighboring Municipalities with its home-grown vegetable harvest.  There are spring water sources in the area, some were already developed while others remained to be tapped.  It is blessed with a large tract of fertile farm lots, mostly are irrigated. In here was established the second public high school of the Municipality, the Tay-ac National High School (which initially opened its gates in SY 2002-2003), via RA 8395, authored by Congressman Mariano Tajon and approved by Congress on November 22, 1997.  In the mid of year 2005, a four hectare lot worth 3.9 M, situated in this barangay, was purchased by the LGU to be its ‘Municipal dumpsite’.