# Bridgefield, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort an Droichid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 796,278 m² (79.63 ha, 196.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,967 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ightermurragh, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ightermurragh.md - Barony: Imokilly - Electoral division: Ightermurragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,052 people lived in 1,085 households in the Ightermurragh electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12366 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41079 - Centre: latitude 51.909808, longitude -8.019236 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bridgefield, from 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 372,546 m² (37.25 ha, 92.06 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4104047: 372,546 m² (37.25 ha, 92.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4104047.md - Parcel 2274010: 211,529 m² (21.15 ha, 52.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2274010.md - Parcel 2215940: 124,337 m² (12.43 ha, 30.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215940.md - Parcel 2215941: 53,902 m² (5.39 ha, 13.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215941.md - Parcel 2215942: 13,624 m² (1.36 ha, 3.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215942.md - Parcel 2215939: 4,299 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215939.md - Parcel 2501469: 3,634 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501469.md - Parcel 2215938: 2,883 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215938.md - Parcel 3493964: 2,573 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3493964.md - Parcel 2215943: 2,444 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215943.md - Parcel 2274011: 2,313 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2274011.md - Parcel 2274012: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2274012.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bridgefield 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 11 May 2020, Cork County Council 20/4937: Conditional. Permission. To erect a single storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, entrance and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4937 - 25 Jun 2010, Cork County Council 10/5563: Conditional. Permission. Construction of detached domestic garage to include 2 no. car parking spaces, storage and storage for new heating system with all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/5563 - 10 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/9640: Conditional. Permission. Extension to dwelling and new entrance. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/9640 - 29 Oct 2004, Cork County Council 04/8062: Refused. Permission. Dwelling and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/8062 - 23 Aug 2004, Cork County Council 04/6402: Conditional. Permission. Alterations and extensions to dwelling and construction of new entrance. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/6402 - 20 Feb 2003, Cork County Council 03/665: Conditional. Permission. Demolish part of existing dwelling and construct dormer dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/665 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 Bridgefield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO077-056: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO077-056----. Eighteenth century, 2-storey house on N bank of Womanagh River. Entrance front (W) of 5 bays; central narrow round-headed door with fanlight and plaster surround. Gable ends have attic windows and large projecting chimneys. Lower 2-storey hipped additions at both gables. Rear weatherslated; central gabled 2-storey addition. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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) - Bridgefield House, house, 1660–1700, National interest, registry number 20907714, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20907714. Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic accommodation, built c. 1680, having full-height single-bay return to rear (east) elevation, single-bay lower two-storey wing to north gable with hipped slate roof and recent three-bay single-storey extension to south gable with pitched slate roof. Pitched slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks, recent roof light to north hipped roof. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation, roughcast rendered walls to other elevations. Square-headed window openings throughout, with fixed timber windows to attic and to first floor north elevation of return, timber casement window to north elevation, replacement uPVC windows with render surrounds to front elevation, recent timber windows and glazed timber doors to recent extension, replacement uPVC windows to other openings. Round-headed door opening with moulded render surround, having coloured glass half-glazed timber panelled door with coloured glass overlight. Five-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to front (west) elevation of north wing. Rendered square-profile piers to garden entrance. - Bridgefield House, farmyard complex, 1700–1740, Regional interest, registry number 20907715, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20907715. Farmyard complex, built c. 1720, comprising five-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to front (west) elevation of north wing of house, having rubble stone external staircase to west gable. Pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered walls, square-headed openings with timber fittings to south elevation, timber battened door to west gable, and replacement uPVC windows to north elevation. West range of single- two- and three-bay single-storey outbuildings running north-south, and single-bay single-storey converted outbuilding to north of site. Single-storey range to west having single-bay outbuilding with pitched slate roof, half-hipped to south gable, attached to two-bay outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof to north, in turn attached to three-bay outbuilding with pitched slate roof, attached to three-bay outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof, in turn attached to two-bay outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof, this last being on a south-east north-west axis. Rubble stone walls with square-headed openings to east elevations. Converted outbuilding to north having east gable partly removed, having roofless remains of lean-to extension and rubble stone buttress to south elevation, corrugated metal roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with replacement uPVC fittings. Rubble stone boundary walls to yard, with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Square-profile rubble stone piers to yard entrance to north. Single square-profile rubble stone pier with wrought-iron farm gate to north-east of yard. ## 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 Bridgefield, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1536, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1536.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/cork/bridgefield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/bridgefield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/bridgefield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bridgefield 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) - Ballyhonock: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhonock-40542.md - Dower: https://everytownland.com/cork/dower.md - Ightermurragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/ightermurragh.md - Knockane: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockane-43665.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/bridgefield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/bridgefield