Bridgetown South

202 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bridgetown South, from 66 m² to 120,398 m² (12.04 ha, 29.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bridgetown South 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.

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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 Bridgetown South.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-026 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a level, low-lying landscape with the E-W Bridgetown river c. 130m to the N. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) a castle and 60 acres at Bridgetown was owned by William Browne of Mulrankin (WX047031----) in 1640 (Simington 1953, 155), but it was mortgaged to Nicholas Rowe for £50 (Jeffrey 1979, 68-9). During the 1641 rebellion it was occupied by Rowe and his wife Ursula who were robbed by the Brownes of Mulrankin castle (Browne and Whelan 1987, 470). The castle was removed in 1830s according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 203), and according to Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 423) it was associated with the Keating family. The site of the castle is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map. There are no visible remains of a structure at ground level in pasture. The site of St David's Well (WX047-027----) is c. 25m to the SE. Archaeological testing (06E0014) just to the N and E failed to produce any related material (McLoughlin 2010), and testing (08E0647) c. 80m to the NE had a similar result (O’Neill 2011). 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

• WX047-027 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on a level, low-lying landscape with the E-W Bridgetown river c. 130m to the N. It is marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as the site of St. David’s Well. It is not visible at ground level in rough pasture. The well is known locally, but while it was regarded as a holy well in 1940 (OSFM) although it had been closed up even then, it is not regarded as a holy well now. St. David was a 6th-century bishop of Menevia in south Wales and is renowned for his preaching against the Pelagian heresy. He presided over Church councils at Brefi and Caerleon and is the patron saint of Wales (Butler 1883, 41). While his feast day is on 1 March, the date of a pattern, if any was ever held at this site, is not known. The site of Bridgetown castle (WX047-026----) is c. 25m to the NW. Archaeological testing (06E0014) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (McLoughlin 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013

• WX047-155 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape with a N-S section of the E-W canalised Bridgetown stream c. 140m to the W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank feature is visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP (436) 18). It is also visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000) and can be seen as an indistinct feature on the Bing series of aerial photographs (2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Bridgetown Constabulary Barrack, RIC barracks, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey constabulary barrack, occupied 1901, on a rectangular plan; three-bay single-storey lean-to return along rear (south) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Attacked, 1921. Hipped slate roof; lean-to slate roof (south), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stacks with capping now missing, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed rubble stone walls originally fine roughcast with hammered rubble stone flush quoins to corners; fine roughcast surface finish to side (east) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and red brick block-and-start surround framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed central door opening to rear (south) elevation with red brick block-and-start surround framing timber door having overlight. Road fronted on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having cornice capping.

• House, 1700–1814 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1814, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", ----, producing present composition. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with paired exposed steel stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered wall to front (west) elevation on rendered chamfered plinth; fine roughcast surface finish (remainder) with limewashed surface finish to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having truncated pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

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 Bridgetown South, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2955 (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.

No address of the register names Bridgetown South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Bridgetown South · Baile an Droichid Theas

Area

529,772 m² (52.98 ha, 130.91 acres)

Civil parish

Mulrankin, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybought, Ballycross, Bridgetown North, Castletown, Lake, Mulrankin, Oldhall

Placenames

Bridgetown South 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.