# Bulgadenhall, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Uregare, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Builgidín an Bhoscaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 900,147 m² (90.01 ha, 222.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,533 m² (3.35 ha, 8.29 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Uregare, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/uregare.md - Barony: Smallcounty - Electoral division: Uregare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 654 people lived in 223 households in the Uregare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31127 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120530 - Centre: latitude 52.430135, longitude -8.527243 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bulgadenhall, from 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 315,812 m² (31.58 ha, 78.04 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1621830: 315,812 m² (31.58 ha, 78.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1621830.md - Parcel 1645714: 102,448 m² (10.24 ha, 25.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645714.md - Parcel 1625784: 60,640 m² (6.06 ha, 14.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625784.md - Parcel 1622800: 57,422 m² (5.74 ha, 14.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622800.md - Parcel 1644879: 37,579 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644879.md - Parcel 1622797: 36,090 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622797.md - Parcel 1645713: 36,036 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645713.md - Parcel 1642253: 31,030 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642253.md - Parcel 1625783: 20,569 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625783.md - Parcel 1621831: 6,225 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1621831.md - Parcel 1621832: 5,408 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1621832.md - Parcel 1666354: 4,930 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666354.md - Parcel 5790048: 3,161 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5790048.md - Parcel 1590050: 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590050.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bulgadenhall 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) 1 application, newest first. - 26 Apr 2021, Limerick County Council 21535: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling, garage/carport, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21535/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bulgadenhall. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI040-054: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-054----. In reclaimed pasture, immediately N of a watercourse that forms a townland boundary with Ballygrennan, an enclosure (LI040-092----) lies 160m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Monument described by O'Kelly (1944, 52) as a Type C earthwork consisting of; ‘A circular platform surrounded by a fosse. A modern drainage trench has cut off an arc of both. Its max. height is 11’ [3.3m] and overall diameter 50” [15.2]. No surface remains of monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 30 April 2021 - LI040-056: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-056----. No surface remains of a possible tower house annotated 'Site of Bulgaden Hall' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Castle site stands in courtyard of house located to S. Westropp (1906-7, 192-3) recorded the following details about Bulgaden Fox; 'J. Fox, of Bulgedine, was pardoned (Fi. 3040). Peyton gives Bulgedden Buske C[astle]. "Boskagh" being the Fox family (p. 11b). 1587 Sir E. Fitton was granted the head-rent of Jas. Fox in Ballygidden; it was £6 in "half-face" (Fi. 5032). 1655 Ballyvullygiden, ruinous C[astle]. of Edm. ffox (C.S., xxxi., p. 13). Bulligiden Fox, "in it stands a C[astle]. and a rath" (D.S.A., 34). 1666-7 Granted to Capt. Rob. Morgan (Act Sett.)'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmond Ffox of Bulgaden, an Irish Papist was the owner in 1641 of 'a Ruinous Castle & 24 Cabbins upon it' (Simington 1938, 102). A tower house like castle is depicted standing beside 'a Rath' on the 17th century Down Survey map of Small County barony (Hib. Reg.). Tower house depicted on the Down Survey map of Uregare Parish (NLI, MS 718). Bulgaden Hall described in 1826 as; 'once the superb seat of John Evans, Esq. who was brother to the first Lord Carbery: its present fine remains prove it to have ranked amongst the most magnificent mansions in Munster; but it is now almost in ruins, none of the family having resided here for many years' (Fitzgerald 1826, 390). In 1850 the ruins of Bulgaden Hall were described as; 'nought remains but the foundation walls and a solitary stone, bearing the family arms, which no doubt once occupied a prominent place in this splendid pile, though now lying among the rank grass and thistles of its deserted court' (Burke 1850, 122). See attached Down Survey map of Small County Barony and Uregare Parish map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 May 2021 - LI040-057001: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-057001-. In walled garden of Bulgaden Hall (LI040-056----) the site of which is located 45m to S. Not indicated on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-circular shaped area defined by a scarp from N-E-SE with curving field boundary from S-W-N. Described by Westropp (1916-17, 22) as a small low mote. Scrub-covered monument visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 30 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/23 on 05/01/2003. - LI040-057002: Designed landscape - formal garden, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-057002-. In walled garden on the demesne lands of Bulgaden Hall (LI040-056----). Linear earthwork running diagonally on a NE-SW axis visible on Bruff aerial photographs (Bruff AP 5 2116) and on oblique aerial photographs (ASIAP (349) 23) taken 05/01/2003. Cropmark of linear earthwork visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. This linear earthwork is shown on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a tree-lined avenue leading to Bulgaden Hall. Remains of demesne landscape feature associated with Bulgaden Hall clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Earthworks visible on orthoimage represent the remains of demesne landscape feature possibly a formal garden of uncertain date. See attached ASIAP (349) 23 and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 30 April 2021 - LI040-058: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-058----. Ó Danachair (1955, 217) recorded the following details about this holy well; "St Patrick's Well" on 1840 map. A small well, roughly lined with stone. Some trees and bushes grow around it. No devotions now, but formerly visited for the cure of coughs and colds. St Patrick's Day was a day of special devotion. Legends: The well moved when profaned. St Patrick blessed the well. A Protestant lady threw in some silver coins as an offering; an impious Catholic drained the well to get the money, which he spent on drink, but was struck dead as he left the tavern'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/23 on 05/01/2003. - LI040-230: Embanked enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-230----. This site is located at the base of a long E facing slope in a level marshy area. Views are restricted to the W, due to slope and clear to the NE and SE. This is a large sub-circular enclosure (Dims. c. 70m E-W by c. 60m N-S) which is defined by a low, broad bank (Wth 9m, H 1.1m). There is a possible circular feature to the W of the interior. Compiled by Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 14/03/2012 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/23 on 05/01/2003. - LI040-261: Designed landscape - ornamental canal, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-261----. In reclaimed pasture, on the demesne lands of Bulgaden Hall (LI040-056----) which lies 367m to the W. A stream which marks the townland boundary lies 10m to E. An enclosure (LI040-230----) lies 75m to the SW. Possible remains of an ornamental pond or canal of post-1700 dated associated with Bulgaden Hall. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a long rectangular sunken shaped area (dims. c. 212m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp from SW-W-N-E-SE. Identified as an earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (AP 5/2116). Monument visible as a rectangular shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. No earthwork is depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Bruff survey image and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 July 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/23 on 05/01/2003. 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 Bulgadenhall. ## 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 Bulgadenhall, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bulgadenhall. - 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/limerick/bulgadenhall.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgadenhall.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgadenhall.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bulgadenhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballygrennan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballygrennan-120253.md - Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamona-120356.md - Baunnageeragh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/baunnageeragh.md - Bulgaden: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgaden.md - Bulgaden Eady: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgaden-eady.md - Magherareagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/magherareagh.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/limerick/bulgadenhall - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/bulgadenhall