Bluid East
Townland in the civil parish of Castlehaven, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Blúid Thoir
- Area
- 42 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 4,737 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bluid East, from 1,832 m² to 173,980 m² (17.4 ha, 42.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for construction of dwelling house, wastewater treatment system along with all associated site development works. Also permission for retention of temporary dwelling located on site to be retained until building works are complete.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1059
15 Oct 2010Conditional
The removal of condition no. 2 of permission granted under planning file no. 07/540 to enable the use of land for permanent quad bike activities and for permission for retention of associated facilities including office, sanitary unit and 3 no. storage units, car parking and adjusted facilities compound site boundary.
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/704
7 Sept 2010Incompleted application
The removal of condition no. 2 of permission granted under planning file no. 07/540 to enable the use of land for permanent quad bike activities and retention of associated facilities including office, sanitary and storage accommodation, car parking and adjusted facilities compound site boundary
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/620
28 Feb 2007Conditional
Provision of Quad Trekking facilities and associated facilities including 1no. portocabin, 2no. portaloos, quad bike storage yard and car parking
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/540
1 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Provision of quad trekking facilities and associated facilities including 1no. portocabin and 1no. mobile home to include sanitary facilities, septic tank sewage treatment and carparking, convert farm shed for storage and maintenance of associated equipment
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/260
19 Dec 2002Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5691
13 Mar 2001Conditional
Construction of shed for the housing & feeding of cattle to incorporate existing milking parlour, & new underground tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1261
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bluid East.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bluid East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bluid East.
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 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 Bluid East.
- 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 Bluid East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bluid East · Blúid Thoir
- Area
- 420,087 m² (42.01 ha, 103.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlehaven, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Castlehaven North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlehaven North electoral division: 817 people in 315 households; 80% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnnagollopy, Bluid West, Dooneen, Fahouragh, Gortbrack
- Placenames
- Bluid East 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.