# Bridia, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockane, barony of Dunkerron North, Co. Kerry; in Irish Na Braighde. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,338,644 m² (133.86 ha, 330.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 1,335,245 m² (133.52 ha, 329.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/knockane.md - Barony: Dunkerron North - Electoral division: Curraghmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23309 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70474 - Centre: latitude 51.976344, longitude -9.754 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1227584: 1,335,245 m² (133.52 ha, 329.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1227584.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Bridia in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE073-009: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-009----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-010001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-027----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-029001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-029002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE073-055----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bridia. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bridia.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bridia.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bridia.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bridia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bunbinnia: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bunbinnia.md - Cappanthlarig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cappanthlarig.md - Coumreagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coumreagh.md - Curragh More: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curragh-more.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bridia - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/bridia