Bluid West

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bluid West, from 900 m² to 202,101 m² (20.21 ha, 49.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 Feb 2024Conditional

  Renovation and refurbishment of existing derelict dwellinghouse including construction of new single-storey extension to same, together with construction of new domestic garage, installation of new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, along with upgrading of existing site entrance and access driveway and all other associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/90

• 24 Feb 2023Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/89

• 2 Sept 2021Refused

  Construction of a new 2 storey Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Proprietary Waste Water Treatment System and Percolation Area and all Associated Site Works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/601

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  The construction of an agricultural cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage tank, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/367

• 7 Dec 2004Conditional

  Construction of shed for housing and feeding of cattle incorporating existing milking parlour into same

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8969

• 19 Dec 2002Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5691

• 2 Aug 2002Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3481

• 13 Mar 2001Conditional

  Construction of shed for the housing & feeding of cattle to incorporate existing milking parlour, & new underground tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1261

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 the townland of Bluid West.

Recorded monuments

• CO151-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular, heavily overgrown area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.95m); silted-up external fosse (max. D 0.45m to S). Break in bank to NW (Wth 1.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO151-055 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed bogland on E side of drain; spread of burnt material (4m N-S; c. 3m E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bluid West, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Bluid West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Bluid West · Blúid Thiar

Area

740,323 m² (74.03 ha, 182.94 acres)

Civil parish

Castlehaven, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Castlehaven South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 193 households in the Castlehaven South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnishall, Bawnnagollopy, Bluid East, Dooneen, Killaderry, Lahardane Beg, Lahardane More, Lisheenroe, Rea

Placenames

Bluid West 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.