Bleach
Townland in the civil parish of Aglish, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish An Tuar
- Area
- 13.1 ha
- 32 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 6,418 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bleach, from 211 m² to 53,932 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bleach 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
30 Oct 2025Conditional
of a reduced in area single storey extension to existing cottage (Protected structure), and all associated site works ,as an amendment to Full Planning permission (Previously granted, Plan ref reg: 23/213)
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560766
6 Jul 2023Conditional
for temporary installation of a new metal roof on the existing perished thatched roof on cottage (protected structure)for the rebuilding of the top of the external walls, for re-plastering the existing external walls in lime both internally and externally, for the reinstatement of a new timber roof structure, for the refurbishment of all existing windows and door, for the construction of a single storey extension, demolition of existing shed, a new driveway entrance and gates and the installation of a new septic tank discharging to a package media filter in turn discharging to a polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23213
3 Mar 2021Conditional
(1) alterations to the footprint of the extension, (2) elevational changes to the walls and roofline of the extension (3) changes to various window and door opes of the extension
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21154
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 Bleach.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bleach.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bleach.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1704 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bleach with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Bleach · An Tuar
- Area
- 131,386 m² (13.14 ha, 32.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Dromana, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromana electoral division: 832 people in 298 households; 84% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aglish, Ballingowan East, Ballingowan West, Ballynacourty, Coolahest
- Placenames
- Bleach 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.