Bridgefield

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). 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.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 May 2020Conditional

  To erect a single storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4937

• 25 Jun 2010Conditional

  Construction of detached domestic garage to include 2 no. car parking spaces, storage and storage for new heating system with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5563

• 10 Aug 2006Conditional

  Extension to dwelling and new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9640

• 29 Oct 2004Refused

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8062

• 23 Aug 2004Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling and construction of new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6402

• 20 Feb 2003Conditional

  Demolish part of existing dwelling and construct dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/665

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bridgefield.

Recorded monuments

• CO077-056 Country house
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Bridgefield House, house, 1660–1700 · National interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1536 (ZIP).

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 Bridgefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Bridgefield · Gort an Droichid

Area

796,278 m² (79.63 ha, 196.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ightermurragh, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Ightermurragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ightermurragh electoral division: 3,052 people in 1,085 households; 74% of households own their home; 61% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhonock, Dower, Ightermurragh, Knockane

Placenames

Bridgefield 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.