Brideswell
Brideswell is a townland in the civil parish of Mulrankin, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Tobar Bhríde.
Parcel 365832
- Area
- 694,658 m² (69.47 ha, 171.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,769 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Brideswell
Planning applications on this parcel
28 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191210
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 4 recorded monuments.
- WX047-006 Ritual site - holy well
Description
A well is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Bride’s Well in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on the S bank of an E-W section of a small NE-SW stream and c. 40m W of Brideswell Bridge. It is also c. 180m S of the point where the boundaries of the medieval parishes of Kilmannan, Mularankin and Kilcowan meet. St Bride’s well on the land of Baldwinstown is the starting point for the description of the boundary of Kilmannan parish in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 135). There are no other descriptions of the well. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 16 October, 2013
- WX047-076 Castle - unclassified
Description
According to an inquisition of 1618 William Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) had land at Brideswell which he either rented from or had mortgaged to Phillip Devereux of Ballymagir (WX0652002-) (Jeffrey 1979, 69). According to the Civil Survey Phillip’s son, Nicholas Devereux, owned 80 acres and the castle at Brideswell in 1640 (Simington 1953, 156, 163). The site of the castle is not certainly known, but it may have been at the same location of Brideswell House, where there are two face corbels over an external round-headed doorway. (Kehoe 191984-5, 27) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 14 October, 2013
- WX047-139 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (8) 17-19). There is an entrance gap on the curved SE side. The enclosure is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-138_1to _3) taken in 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013
- WX047-151 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-151_1 to _4) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2919 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 69.5 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 694,658 m² (69.47 ha, 171.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Brideswell, from 694,658 m² (69.47 ha, 171.65 acres) to 694,658 m² (69.47 ha, 171.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brideswell 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191210
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brideswell.
Recorded monuments
- WX047-076 Castle - unclassified
Description
According to an inquisition of 1618 William Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) had land at Brideswell which he either rented from or had mortgaged to Phillip Devereux of Ballymagir (WX0652002-) (Jeffrey 1979, 69). According to the Civil Survey Phillip’s son, Nicholas Devereux, owned 80 acres and the castle at Brideswell in 1640 (Simington 1953, 156, 163). The site of the castle is not certainly known, but it may have been at the same location of Brideswell House, where there are two face corbels over an external round-headed doorway. (Kehoe 191984-5, 27) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 14 October, 2013
- WX047-139 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (8) 17-19). There is an entrance gap on the curved SE side. The enclosure is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-138_1to _3) taken in 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013
- WX047-151 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-151_1 to _4) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brideswell.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Brideswell, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2919 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brideswell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Brideswell · Tobar Bhríde
- Area
- 694,544 m² (69.45 ha, 171.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mulrankin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Bridgetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 963 people lived in 323 households in the Bridgetown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baldwinstown, Grascur Great, Heavenstown, Johnstown, Longridge, Moor, Pollmanagh Little, Rathronan, Rathyark
- Placenames
- Brideswell 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.