Lady's Bridge
Townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Droichead na Scuab
- Area
- 1.7 ha
- 4 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 119 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lady's Bridge, from 13 m² to 5,917 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Lady's Bridge 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for (1) demolition of the existing single storey porch to rear & construct a new porch to rear of his dwelling, (2) permission to construct a new extension to rear, (3) removal of the pitched roof to rear extension & replacing same with new flat roof, (4) elevational changes to his existing dwelling, (5) install 2no. rooflights to existing rear roof on his dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1706
13 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5741
19 May 2022Conditional
Permission for retention of change of use to Creche facilities (Class 8 – Healthcare) from Salon (Class 2- Professional Services).
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5163
3 Feb 2021Conditional
The partial change of use of an existing first floor function room to a two bedroom apartment within an existing licensed premises and associated roof works including a roof light.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4214
22 Dec 2020Incompleted application
The partial change of use of an existing first floor function room to a two bedroom apartment within an existing licensed premises and associated roof works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6945
16 Mar 2020Conditional
Demolition of existing single storey store, construction of two semi-detached dwellings and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4550
31 Mar 2010Conditional
Partial change of use of disused public house to retail/office/medical use, and retention of alterations and partial change of use to restaurant with takeaway facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4740
9 Mar 2010Incompleted application
Partial change of use of disused public house to retail/office/medical use and retention of alterations and partial change of use to restaurant with take-away facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4541
13 Nov 2008Conditional
Change of use from existing disused public house to restaurant with takeaway facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9669
21 Dec 2007Conditional
Construction of 1 no. two-storey dwellinghouse with 2 no. associated car parking spaces & 1 no. bungalow with detached garage and private parking and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13315
18 Jun 2007Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling and retention of domestic garage/playroom/toilet with attic storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8765
24 May 2006Conditional
Demolish existing dwelling & construct 18no. two-storey dwellinghouses, Provision of 36no.car-parking spaces, new vehicular entrance & associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7456
12 Oct 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and improvement of the carrying capacity of existing access bridge
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7440
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 Lady's Bridge.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lady's Bridge.
Architectural heritage
- Manchester Martyrs Monument, monument, 1965–1970 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding carved limestone monument, erected 1967, comprising high cross with interlace patterning on tall square-profile plinth and base. Carved heads to north elevation of base and incised Gaelic lettering to north and west elevations of base. Cast-iron railings set in cut limestone plinth forming boundary.
- Ladysbridge National School, school, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Detached ten-bay single-storey former school, dated 1891, now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls to front (east) elevation, smooth rendered walls to other elevations, date stone to front elevation. Square-headed openings throughout, having six-pane pivoting over nine-pane fixed windows with limestone sills, and timber battened doors with nine-pane square overlights, with limestone steps to front elevation. Rendered boundary wall with wrought-iron pedestrian gate to front boundary, small stream and rubble stone wall to front of front boundary. Lean-to outbuildings to rear of site, incorporated into rendered boundary wall with rubble stone vertical coping stones, and flanked by two pairs of square-profile cut stone piers with wrought-iron double-leaf gates.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1507 (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 Lady's Bridge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lady's Bridge · Droichead na Scuab
- Area
- 16,617 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 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
- Bridgetown, Carewswood, Dromadda Beg, Knockglass, Rathcallan
- Placenames
- Lady's Bridge 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.