Bridane Upper
Bridane Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Braighdeán Uachtarach.
- Area
- 57.8 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,780 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bridane Upper, from 58 m² to 233,602 m² (23.36 ha, 57.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Bridane Upper 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
3 Jul 2025Conditional
extensions and alterations of existing dwelling to include a granny flat within the dwelling , removal of an existing shed , a borewell, replacement of the waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2583
30 May 2025N/a
extension and alterations of existing dwelling to include a granny flat within the dwelling, removal of an existing shed, a borewell ,replacement of the wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2568
23 Oct 2020Conditional
planning permission for the indefinite retention of an existing agricultural poultry building as constructed together with planning permission to demolish 2 no. existing derelict agricultural poultry buildings and replacement with a single new agricultural poultry building together with ancillary site works at
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 20777
8 Aug 2018Conditional
for indefinite retention for dwelling house, which is part two storey, part one and a half storey, for garage, entrance, well, septic tank and percolation area
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18536
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 Bridane Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bridane Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bridane Upper.
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 Bridane Upper, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1652 (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 Bridane Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Bridane Upper · Braighdeán Uachtarach
- Area
- 578,151 m² (57.82 ha, 142.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Lismore Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,256 people lived in 457 households in the Lismore Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaraha, Boolakiley, Bridane Lower, Deerparkhill, Glenasaggart
- Placenames
- Bridane Upper 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.