Bridgetown Lower

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bridgetown Lower, from 322 m² to 406,576 m² (40.66 ha, 100.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Bridgetown Lower 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.

• 25 Jul 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to:- a) Construct a new dwelling house, b) Construct a new domestic garage, c) Alter an existing agricultural entrance to serve proposed dwelling, d) Install a new bored well, e) Install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1992

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional

  To construct a feeding passage over existing slatted tank, effluent tank with roof over existing holding yard, calf house, silage pit and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4579

• 27 May 2020Conditional

  (i) Demolish existing milking complex & slatted house (ii) construct a new milking complex incorporating covered drafting area & covered collecting yard. Collecting yard to incorporate slatted tank with 1 external agitation point. (iii) Construct a new easy feed slatted unit adjacent to existing farm buildings. Associated slatted tank to incorporate 2 external agitation points (iv) erect a meal bin. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5060

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  Retention of a dwelling, entrance, on site waste water treatment system and percolation area (change of site layout and dwelling design to that granted under Planning Reg. No. 05/2017) and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5128

• 18 Nov 2014Conditional

  Construction of a domestic garage for the storage of agricultural vintage machinery and all associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6457

• 11 Sept 2012Incompleted application

  Retention of dwelling, entrance, on site waste water treatment system and percolation area (change of site layout and dwelling design to that granted under Planning Reg. No. 05/2017) and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5935

• 14 Feb 2011Conditional

  Conversion of a self feed silage layout to a slatted easy feed cubicle layout and the construction of an extension to same, to construct an extension to the milking parlour, a soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4273

• 21 Aug 2007Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10427

• 31 May 2007Incompleted application

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8271

• 23 May 2007Withdrawn

  Construction of lined lagoon slurry storage tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8036

• 30 Mar 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of slatted tank for the storage of effluent

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6712

• 29 May 2006Conditional

  Retention of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7575

• 22 Feb 2006Conditional

  Retention of alterations to dwelling and garage to include 3 attic windows,enclosure of porch, diningroom window changed to french doors, transome light over garage door omitted, front garage window omitted, study window increased in width,stone arch omitted and bay roof truncated

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4996

• 24 Jan 2006Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4277

• 26 Oct 2005Refused

  Alterations to front elevation of dwelling permitted under Reg. No. 05/2017

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7834

• 30 Aug 2005Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse with waste water treatment unit and replacement of 2 no. septic tanks with waste water treatment units to serve existing adjacent dwellings

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6258

• 31 Mar 2005Conditional

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2017

• 21 Dec 2004Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9444

• 13 Jul 2004Conditional

  Change of roof pitch to dwelling permitted under Reg. No. 04/228

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5363

• 2 Mar 2004Conditional

  Change of site boundaries (North and East) for dwelling permitted under Reg. No. N/00/7127

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1341

• 2 Mar 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse and vehicular access

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/1332

• 20 Jan 2004Conditional

  Dwelling with garage (Change of plan)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/228

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Ballincurrig Wood) 001793
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Kilcummer) 001794

Recorded monuments

• CO034-006 Railway bridge
  Description

  In pasture, to N of Bridgetown Abbey (14381). Bridge carrying railway from top of limestone bluff on E side of Awbeg River across valley. Iron trellis bridge supported on 8 masonry piers. Piers (5.82m x 2.45m; c. 13.35m apart) of coursed limestone blocks with rock-faced finish; taper gently with height, reaching maximum height of over 15m. Abutments overgrown, E abutment atop limestone bluff. Line constructed after Mallow and Fermoy railway incorporated into Great Southern & Western Railway line in 1854; built by Dargan, railway line opened in 1860, closed 1967 (Rowledge 1995, 91) and line removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO034-027001 Graveyard
  Description

  Graveyard (c. 42m N-S; c. 42m E-W) on S side of monastic complex at Bridgetown Priory (14381). Enclosed by limestone rubble walls (H c. 1.4m); area almost entirely occupied by extensive dumps of stone rubble. Traces of low stone walls visible within graveyard probably remains of burial vaults. Section of S wall of graveyard stands 3.5m high, indicating former structure here; W wall of graveyard built on foundations of earlier wall. Interior of monastic complex, especially the church, long used for burial (see 14381). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO034-027002 Religious house - Augustinian canons
  Description

  At foot of steep E-facing slope, on W bank of Blackwater River. Complex of ruined 13th-century monastic buildings comprising church, with cloister to S and claustral ranges to S and E; these renovated in late-medieval period when further buildings added at SE side of complex, and towers added to NE corner and W end of church. Chancel still used as graveyard (14548). Complex now undergoing conservation programme by Cork County Council. Church consists of nave (int. 17.6m E-W; 7.7m N-S) and choir (int. 24.9m E-W; 7.7m N-S), separated by full height gabled wall with central archway (Wth 2.8m); lower courses on N side of archway have chamfered sandstone moulding. Entrance to nave via rebuilt doorway (Wth 1.75m) near W end of N wall; stoup immediately inside doorway on E side. Opposite doorway in S wall gives entry to cloister walk; second doorway from nave to cloister, at E end of S wall, now blocked. Nave lit by windows in N wall: to W of doorway is extensively rebuilt window; window to E of doorway retains most of original sandstone mouldings, which suggest it had single round-headed light; window at E end of N wall has inserted rectangular light, divided by transom and mullion. Wall dividing nave from choir has two 1st-floor windows, flanking archway, with plain lintelled lights in pointed-arch embrasures, facing into choir. Choir lit by windows in N, E and S walls. Most of E wall taken up by three tall windows whose single lights are divided by masonry piers which splay to meet at a point on the inside, where fragments of original sandstone hollowed roll-mouldings survive, supported on decorative corbels; original central light replaced by late-medieval twin round-headed lights with mullion-and-transom divisions surmounted by simple 'teardrop' tracery; both side lights missing, rear arches collapsed. North wall, near W end, has pair of closely set window embrasures each with twin lancets, and two windows with single lancets further E; these retain some original sandstone detail including filleted roll moulding. South wall has window with sandstone mouldings near E end: arch collapsed; mullion and head missing. To W of this is pair of closely set window embrasures framed by banded angle-shafts: E window has twin cusped lancet lights, divided by mullion, surmounted by quatrefoil, partially blocked by insertion of 15th-century Roche tomb; W window missing most of light, and has an inserted late-medieval doorway giving access to walled enclosure which contains numerous uninscribed grave markers. Second doorway, c. 7.5m to W, has some original sandstone edging on E side; it gives access to area containing 13th-century graveslab, 17th-century tomb of Theobald Roche, and 19th-century headstone. Blocked doorway at extreme W end originally linked choir to E claustral range. Interior of choir occupied by numerous 19th- and 20th-century gravestones; still used for burial. Late-medieval 3-storey tower (c. 10m N-S; 6.5m E-W) inserted at W end of nave. Ground floor divided into two chambers, each with 1st-floor attics under pointed vaults. Large number of architectural fragments gathered from vicinity of ruins now stored here. Spiral stairs, housed in projecting turret at NE corner, leads to single chamber on 2nd floor. Latter has concrete floor; windows in E, W and S walls all modern reconstructions; two original slit windows in N wall flank semicircular brick-lined oven; latter housed in semicircular projection corbelled out from outer wall face. Chimney flue in NW corner, but fireplace missing; small lintelled fireplace in SW corner. Late-medieval 3-storey flanking tower (c. 6.5m E-W; c. 4m N-S) added to NE corner of church. Accessed from E end of choir via 1st-floor doorway. Lit by lintelled slit windows on 1st- and 2nd-floor levels; upper walls collapsed; base of mural stairs survives in SW corner, may have led to wall walk on N wall of church. Cloister (23m E-W; 23.8m N-S) extends S from W end of nave; bounded by high wall, probably of late-medieval date, on W side, refectory range on S side and chapter range on E side. None of wall along inside of cloister walkway survives but a late medieval vault (L c. 16m; Wth. 2.3m) covers S half of E walkway. Fragments of arcading from inside of cloister walkway survive (Croker 1842, 133); these are dumb-bell piers of 15th/16th-century date. South range (21m E-W; 6.5m N-S) consists of 1st-floor refectory over undercroft. Latter entered via rebuilt doorway near W end of N wall and partially collapsed door at N end of E wall; rebuilt arched recess at W end of S wall possibly laver. Undercroft divided by N-S walls into three chambers, each further divided by central masonry piers supporting arches (now collapsed) springing E-W. Chambers lit by lintelled slit windows in S wall which retain much of original sandstone mouldings. Recess in W end wall of range is probably blocked stairs which formerly led to 1st floor. First-floor refectory lit by series of eight windows in S wall, each with round-headed sandstone light, and two rebuilt windows in N wall. Wide rebuilt ope in W wall; projecting block near E end of S wall provided recess for pulpitum; W end fortified by provision of several late-medieval gun loops; E wall and E end of S wall largely collapsed. Passage from cloister walk continues to S between refectory and ranges to E. East range (25.3m N-S; 7.6m E-W), extends S from W end of choir; gabled N and S walls intact but otherwise very fragmentary and much rebuilt. Ground floor originally divided into three chambers, dividing walls now missing. Pointed-arch doors in W wall are late-medieval insertions. Three original lancet windows survive on ground-floor of E wall of central chamber; probably location of chapter house. Window overhead with twin cusped ogee-headed lights and two windows with plain lintelled lights, are late-medieval insertions. On E side of E chapter range is open quadrangular courtyard (18.8m E-W; c. 18m N-S). Ruined structures to S of courtyard may be kitchen and warming room. Immediately S of latter is ruined late-medieval 3-storey tower which may have been part of prior's accommodation; 1st-floor chamber (2.2m N-S; 2m E-W) entered through doorway in N wall; door in S wall of chamber led to now ruined structure to S which has two gun loops in S wall at ground-floor level. Mural stairs in W wall of tower leads to 2nd-floor chamber (2.2m E-W; 1.6m N-S); chamber lit by window with cusped ogee light in W wall and windows with lintelled lights in S and E walls.On S side of monastic complex is walled graveyard (14548). Tradition exists that C of I church was built 'close to the W side of the Priory', but left unroofed 'after a short life' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 315); stones from church used to build C of I church at Ballyhooly (see 14569). Sunken channel (26m N-S; 10m E-W) c. 150m to S of priory complex probably part of millrace; W side formed by natural rise in ground level, E side by mortared stone wall (H c. 2m); door- or gate-way (Wth 2.6m) with semicircular piers near S end of wall; similar gateway at N end of channel. Extensive linear features in field to SW visible in aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, March 1998). Augustinian priory founded by Alexander fitzHugh and colonised from Newton, Co. Meath and St Thomas's, Dublin (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 307-8; MacCarthy 1994, 134-5; Flood 1916, 121-2); according to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 161-2), founded between 1206 and 1216, MacCotter and Nicholls (1996, 246) give the date as c. 1200, and McCotter (1997, 90) as 'shortly after 1202'. By end of 13th century associated with Roches and became their chief burial place. Described in mid-16th century as having 'church with belfry, dormitory, hall, buttery, kitchen, cloister, and cellar, with divers other chambers', also had water-mill and cemetery (White 1943, 145-6). Surrendered to Sir Henry Sidney in 1576-7 (Gwynn and Hadcock ibid.) and abandoned shortly afterwards (Flood ibid., 123).

• CO034-027003 Earthwork
  Description

  This earthwork is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 547-8) under the entry (no. 14381) for Bridgetown Abbey (CO034-027002-). The reference to the earthwork in the entry reads: 'Extensive linear features in field to SW visible in aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, March 1998).' The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO034-075 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); linear cropmark crossing field immediately E of enclosure and two similar cropmarks crossing field to E and W are probably part of relict field system though no complete field noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Kilcummer Bridge, bridge, 1630–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch rubble stone bridge carrying road over Awbeg River, built c. 1650, widened to north-west, upstream elevation c. 1780. Round walls and arches, with long rubble voussoirs to south-east elevation and roughly dressed voussoirs and V-cutwaters to north-west elevation. Causeway road with three round-headed arches approaches bridge from north-east crossing flood plain. Stone platform for water pump to south-west.

• Kilcummer Viaduct, viaduct, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ten-span railway viaduct, built c. 1860, carrying disused railway line over Awbeg River and valley. Wrought-iron lattice girders supported on eight tapering rectangular-profile rock-faced limestone piers, and having metal parapet railings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Bridgetown Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Bridgetown Lower.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bridgetown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Bridgetown Lower · Baile an Droichid Íochtarach

Area

2,236,721 m² (223.67 ha, 552.71 acres)

Civil parish

Bridgetown, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Kilcummer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

283 people lived in 103 households in the Kilcummer electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincurrig, Ballydague, Bridgetown Upper, Clifford, Cloon, Grange, Kilcummer Lower

Placenames

Bridgetown Lower 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.