Blueford

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blueford, from 428 m² to 530,676 m² (53.07 ha, 131.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Blueford 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.

• 26 Mar 2008Refused

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/5677

• 6 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Demolition of two storey dwellinghouse and outline permission for construction of two storey dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/4586

• 16 Apr 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted house, conversion of barn to cubicles, conversion of cubicle house to calf house, effluent tank and retention of slatted house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7050

• 15 Feb 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of slatted house and effluent tank and retention of slatted house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5073

• 7 Feb 2005Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/596

• 13 Mar 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage/loft

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1141

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• CO022-014 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (12.8m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE; H 1.2m); opening (Wth 4.7m) faces SE. Local tradition that mound was used as children's burial ground (14073). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-015 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. Mound of burnt material (12m N-S; 9.8m E-W; H 0.65m). Hollow (0.3m x 0.4m) in E side is result of recent digging. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-016 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground, c. 120m N of Owenkeal River. Overgrown mound of burnt material, apparently cut by two drains running N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-017 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Mound of burnt material (8.8m N-S; 8.02m NW-SE; H 0.8m); opening (Wth 4m) faces NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-259 Burial ground
  Description

  According to Bowman (1934, 154), still-born children were buried in fulacht fiadh (10396) which is locally referred to as 'The Old Lios'. Known locally as a children's burial ground. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blueford.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blueford.

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.

No address of the register names Blueford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Blueford · An tÁth Gorm

Area

1,699,703 m² (169.97 ha, 420.01 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Barnacurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barnacurra electoral division: 246 people in 87 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacurra, Clashykinleen East, Glenlara, Glennamucklagh East, Lisrobin West, Reanagashel

Placenames

Blueford 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.