Bridetree

Area

89,220 m² (8.92 ha, 22.05 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 472 m².

Zoning

P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
G3 HA - High Amenity (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective

Townland

Bridetree

Planning applications on this parcel

• 2 Apr 2012Withdraw application

  The change of use of the existing 16 bedroom, bed and breakfast in 2 b

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0096

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• DU008-017 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  This holy well was traditionally associated with St. Catherine. Situated in field of tillage W of stream. No visible surface trace (Ó Danachair 1958, 74). No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 20). Bridetree Well (DU008-018----) lies 110m to the SE. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023

• DU008-018 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A natural spring well, removed during roadworks prior to 1958 (Ó Danachair 1958, 73; Healy 1975, 20). St Catherine's Well (DU008-017----) lies 110m to the NW. Described by Ó Danachair (1958, 73) as; 'This well was much visited in former times, but was recently destroyed in road widening operations. A pump on the roadside seems to be from the same spring'. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023

• DU008-019002 Burial mound
  Description

  In a low-lying field under tillage. A burial mound (Diam. 25m, H 2m) containing a number of partially stone-lined graves was found here in 1958 (NMI 1958:37A and B). Excavations revealed three graves, two of which were partially stone-protected. Grave 1 cist was rectangular in outline with a long axis running E-W (L 1.4m, wth 0.4m, H 0.2m) and contained the disarticulated remains of two adults with a calibrated date of 418-605 AD. Grave 2 was a simple pit aligned E-W which contained an extended inhumation which dated to 692-962 AD. Grave 3 was a partially slab-lined grave which contained two extended inhumation burials aligned W-E (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 21-28). Not visible at ground level (Waddell 1990, 80).In a low-lying field under tillage. A burial mound containing a long cist was found here in 1958 (NMI 1958:37A and B). Not visible at ground level (Waddell 1990, 80). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 13 February 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

About 1 in 20 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.