# Bluid West, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlehaven, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Blúid Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 740,323 m² (74.03 ha, 182.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,568 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Greenbelt1, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlehaven, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/castlehaven.md - Barony: Carbery West (East Division) - Electoral division: Castlehaven South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 550 people lived in 193 households in the Castlehaven South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13039 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41034 - Centre: latitude 51.519635, longitude -9.227707 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bluid West, from 900 m² to 202,101 m² (20.21 ha, 49.94 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2218066: 202,101 m² (20.21 ha, 49.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2218066.md - Parcel 2272075: 194,063 m² (19.41 ha, 47.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272075.md - Parcel 2218065: 193,121 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2218065.md - Parcel 2218068: 53,260 m² (5.33 ha, 13.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2218068.md - Parcel 2218069: 35,237 m² (3.52 ha, 8.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2218069.md - Parcel 2272076: 25,568 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272076.md - Parcel 2272077: 24,723 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272077.md - Parcel 2503188: 5,923 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503188.md - Parcel 2272074: 3,574 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272074.md - Parcel 2218067: 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2218067.md - Parcel 2218064: 900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2218064.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 23 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-5-west-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 29 Feb 2024, Cork County Council 24/90: Conditional. Permission. Renovation and refurbishment of existing derelict dwellinghouse including construction of new single-storey extension to same, together with construction of new domestic garage, installation of new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, along with upgrading of existing site entrance and access driveway and all other associated ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/90 - 24 Feb 2023, Cork County Council 23/89: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/89 - 2 Sept 2021, Cork County Council 21/601: Refused. Permission. Construction of a new 2 storey Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Proprietary Waste Water Treatment System and Percolation Area and all Associated Site Works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/601 - 10 Jul 2020, Cork County Council 20/367: Conditional. Permission. The construction of an agricultural cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage tank, and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/367 - 7 Dec 2004, Cork County Council 04/8969: Conditional. Permission. Construction of shed for housing and feeding of cattle incorporating existing milking parlour into same. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/8969 - 19 Dec 2002, Cork County Council 02/5691: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=02/5691 - 2 Aug 2002, Cork County Council 02/3481: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=02/3481 - 13 Mar 2001, Cork County Council 01/1261: Conditional. Permission. Construction of shed for the housing & feeding of cattle to incorporate existing milking parlour, & new underground tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=01/1261 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bluid West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO151-003: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO151-003----. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular, heavily overgrown area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.95m); silted-up external fosse (max. D 0.45m to S). Break in bank to NW (Wth 1.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO151-055: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO151-055----. In reclaimed bogland on E side of drain; spread of burnt material (4m N-S; c. 3m E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bluid West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Bluid West, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bluid West. - 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/cork/bluid-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/bluid-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/bluid-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bluid West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bawnishall: https://everytownland.com/cork/bawnishall.md - Bawnnagollopy: https://everytownland.com/cork/bawnnagollopy.md - Bluid East: https://everytownland.com/cork/bluid-east.md - Dooneen: https://everytownland.com/cork/dooneen-42305.md - Killaderry: https://everytownland.com/cork/killaderry.md - Lahardane Beg: https://everytownland.com/cork/lahardane-beg.md - Lahardane More: https://everytownland.com/cork/lahardane-more.md - Lisheenroe: https://everytownland.com/cork/lisheenroe-44110.md - Rea: https://everytownland.com/cork/rea.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/bluid-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/bluid-west