Bridgetown
Townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Droichid
- Area
- 50.6 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 130 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bridgetown, from 4 m² to 129,159 m² (12.92 ha, 31.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 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
9 Jul 2025Conditional permission
1) New part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling, 2) Single storey link from the main dwelling to; 3) Single storey home office and commercial Beauty Salon with 2 no. treatment rooms, 4) Detached single storey domestic garage, 5) New wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5370
10 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission for construction of the following: 1) A part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling ; 2) A single storey link from the main dwelling to ; 3) A single storey home office and beauty salon with 2 no treatment rooms; 4) A detached single storey garage; 5) And all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4650
10 Apr 2025Conditional permission
Permission for construction of a new gym, extension to existing dressing rooms incorporating a meeting room & stores and permission for retention of existing unroofed ball alley and all associated works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4649
7 Nov 2024Application withdrawn
Permission for retention of existing unroofed ball alley. Permission for construction of a club house, wastewater treatment system and all associated works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/6108
11 Oct 2024Incompleted application
Permission for retention of existing unroofed ball alley, permission for construction of a club house, wastewater treatment system and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5925
26 Oct 2022Conditional
Upgrade the existing Castlemartyr Wastewater Treatment Plant at lands at Ladysbridge Road (R632), Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. The site is generally bounded by Castlemartyr Resort access road to the north, Castlemartyr Woods to the south, Ladysbridge Road to the east and Kiltha River to the west. The development will consist of the demolition of the existing: aeration tank; inlet works; forward feed pumping station; picket fence thickener; and site boundary post and wire fence. The development will also consist of works to upgrade the existing Castlemartyr WwTP including provision of: secondary / biological treatment facilities (including; 2 no. anoxic tanks (circa 115 cubic metres), 3 no. aeration tanks (circa 342 cubic metres); 2 no. 8 metre diameter settlement tanks); a forward feed pumping station (circa 19 cubic metres); above-ground storm-tank with circa 255 cubic metres of storage; tertiary treatment for phosphorus removal (comprising chemical dosing and filtration including 1 no. disc filter); a sludge management system (including the re-purpose of the existing clarifier tank to new picket fence thickener); an emergency stormwater overflow chamber; provision of circa 32 metres of below ground inlet sewer; circa 15 metres of below ground outfall pipeline ( to discharge flows to the existing outfall location at the Killtha River); a surface water drainage interceptor; a treated effluent outfall headwall to the Killtha River (discharging to existing outfall location); and the upgrade of the existing inlet works including 2 no. fine screens and grit removal facility. The works will also consist of: provision of a new control building (circa 79 square metres); an ESB sub-station (circa 22 square metres); a permanent back-up generator and associated fuel tank; access gates and boundary fencing; all hard and soft landscaping; manholes; and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect to the proposed development and will be submitted with the planning application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6416
2 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission to construct an all-weather pitch, planning permission to erect floodlighting to serve the proposed all-weather pitch, planning permission to erect floodlighting to serve an existing grass pitch and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5992
17 Feb 2021Withdrawn
Construction of an all-weather pitch, planning permission to erect floodlighting to serve the proposed all-weather pitch and for all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4369
11 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of 3 no. dwellings and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 17/6087
9 Oct 2014Conditional
Construction of new dressing room self contained building unit consisting of 2 no. dressing rooms with integrated showers & toilet facilities, referee’s changing room & boiler house
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6178
23 Sept 2014Incompleted application
Construction of new dressing room self-contained building unit consisting of 2no. new dressing rooms with integrated showers & toilet facilities, referee’s changing room & boiler house
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6039
22 May 2014Conditional
Retention of (1) sunroom extension to side of dwelling, (2) kitchen extension to rear of dwelling, (3) 3 no. separate outbuildings consisting of a boiler house/utility building, a garage/store building and a separate small kennel building.
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5069
14 Oct 2010Conditional
Install an indoor practice court/ball alley. Provision of a new pedestrian wicket gate onto main road. Extending existing main vehicular entrance/exit onto main road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8221
30 Sept 2010Incompleted application
Installation of indoor practice court/ball alley, provision of new pedestrian wicket gate onto main road and extension to existing main vehicular entrance/exit onto main road
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8086
21 Dec 2009Conditional
Construction of a 90-bed two-storey nursing home consisting of communal spaces, treatment rooms, dining rooms, kitchen, sanitary accommodation, staff facilities, administration areas & ancillary services including service road & yard, new gated vehicular & pedestrian access off Ladysbridge Road, 40 surface car parking spaces, foul sewer connection to local authority waste water treatment plant, surface water drainage including attenuation works, hard & soft landscaping & associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8011
27 Nov 2007Conditional
Partial demolition, extensions and renovations to dwellinghouse to include conversion of bungalow to dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12664
13 Nov 2007Incompleted application
Partial demolition, renovations and extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12321
28 Oct 2005Conditional
Amendment of condition no.3 of the governing permission Reg. No. 03/6911 to remove the requirement for single ownership and allow for multiple ownership of 42 no. golf lodges for use as managed short term letting accommodation
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7961
12 Jul 2005Conditional
Alterations to floor plans and elevations of hotel development permitted under Reg No s/03/2623 to facilitate provision of Phase 1 of hotel development with 99 no. bedrooms to include the use of St. Theresa's Convent as hotel reception, restaurants, bar, kitchens, meeting rooms and 3 no. bedrooms instead of a permitted health spa, replacement of swimming pool,changing areas,conference centre and overhead plant room, hotel reception, restaurant and kitchen block as originally permitted, with 96 no. bedrooms, a gym and treatment rooms, omission of permitted basements, bedrooms(70 no.) and function room and provision of all ancillary landscaping, services and site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4941
16 Dec 2004Conditional
Alterations, extensions and conversion of stables and outbuildings for use as tourist residential accommodation to consist of 16 no. self contained units, parking and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9261
20 Oct 2004Incompleted application
Change of floor plans and elevations to a section of hotel development permitted under S/03/2623 and which directly abuts a protected structure. The proposed development includes the interchange of the as permitted conference room suites and a portion of the guest bedroom accommodation, changes to 1st.,2nd. and 3rd. floor bedroom layouts, the provision of an amended and reduced car parking layout and the use of the existing vehicular access to the public road to serve phase 1 of the development and ancillary landscaping, services and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7854
6 Feb 2004Conditional
Residential development of 10 no. dwellings, associated car-parking and site development works with access from new entrance and access road from Ladysbridge
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/671
12 Jan 2004Refused
Construction of 24 no. dwellinghouses and 6 no. Social/Affordable bungalows, provision of new amenity area and upgrading of existing amenity walks and pathways
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/77
23 Dec 2003Conditional
An 18 hole gole course and the erection of 42 no. golf lodges for short term letting within the existing walled garden of a larger site containing RPS 00534 (St. Theresa's Convent), RPS 00535 (Castlemartyr Castle) and RPS 00968 (Castlemartyr Tower House), Which are protected structures. The proposed development also includes:a) The provision of a single storey, 240m2 clubhouse; b) The construction of a golf course maintenance complex consisting of a single storey, 357m2 machine storage building, single storey, 117m2 staff facilities building and assoicated hard surfaced yard with provision for 3 no. fuel storage tanks, proposed developments a & b will be accessed via a new internal roadway, c) Provision of on course single storey rest rooms of 12m2
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6911
30 May 2003Conditional
SEE APPLICATION FOR DETAILS
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2623
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 Bridgetown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bridgetown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bridgetown.
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 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_1506 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bridgetown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bridgetown · Baile an Droichid
- Area
- 506,020 m² (50.6 ha, 125.04 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
- Carewswood, Castlemartyr, Dromadda Beg, Gortnahomna More, Lady's Bridge
- Placenames
- Bridgetown 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.