Bridia

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Bridia, from 1,335,245 m² (133.52 ha, 329.95 acres) to 1,335,245 m² (133.52 ha, 329.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bridia 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bridia in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE073-009 Hut site
  Description

  High on the NW slopes of Broaghnabinnia, the subcircular foundations of a drystone hut. D: 7m x 6.2m. H: .45m. T: .75m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1143. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-010001 Hut site
  Description

  On a wide shelf, high on the N side of Broaghnabinnia. On bedrock, the subcircular remains of a roughly built hut. D: 8m x 7.9m. H: .7m. T: .5m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1144. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-027 Hut site
  Description

  On a wide shelf, high on the N slopes of Broaghnabinnia. The ruined foundations of a drystone circular hut. D: 2.1m. H: .45m. T: .6m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1145. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-028 Hut site
  Description

  About 50m E of KE073-027----, a circular foundation, defined by a single layer of stones. D: 2.1m. H: .3m. T: .55m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1146. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-029001 Enclosure
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this small enclosure and hut are located on open mountain terrain on the SE slopes of Curraghmore. Boulders and large slabs set on edge form the base of the drystone wall which encloses an oval-shaped area, 12.3m 9.8m. The wall averages 1m high and 1m wide. The remains of a circular hut (KE073-029002-) are centrally located in the interior of the enclosure. It measures 2.5m in internal diameter and its wall survives .3m high and is .6m wide. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 708. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE073-029002 Hut site
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 208, no. 708). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE073-055 Hut site
  Description

  In an area of rough hill pasture with rock outcrops. The hut site is located in the east of the townland of Bridia on a relatively flat plateau c. 10m W of a mountain stream. A roughly sub-rectangular area (dims: 6m x 4.2m) enclosed by drystone walling (H 0.65m) with an entrance c. 0.7m wide in the eastern wall. The enclosing wall is best preserved at N (H 1.3m) suggesting a possible gable. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload/revision: 8 November 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bridia.

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 Bridia, 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 high, 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 Bridia.

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 Bridia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Bridia · Na Braighde

Area

1,338,644 m² (133.86 ha, 330.79 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Curraghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

382 people lived in 134 households in the Curraghmore electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunbinnia, Cappanthlarig, Coumreagh, Curragh More

Placenames

Bridia 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.