Bloomfield

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bloomfield, from 102 m² to 212,785 m² (21.28 ha, 52.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Bloomfield 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.

• 10 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced single storey dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260295

• 6 May 2025Refused

  Permission to construct a fully serviced two-storey dwelling house with

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250519

• 18 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of new vehicular entrance

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241133

• 16 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a domestic garage together with all ancillary

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240546

• 15 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention and completion of (a) revised site boundary

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240153

• 30 Nov 2023Refused

  Permission for retention and completion of (a) Revised site boundary, access

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231437

• 13 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house with a new onsite

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210026

• 12 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission of alterations and extensions to the existing fully serviced detached

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200303

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 Bloomfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bloomfield.

Architectural heritage

• Bloomfield, country house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey double-pile over basement country house with half-dormer attic, built 1837-44, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch abutting single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bay; three-bay full-height rear (south) elevation. Vacant, 1901; 1911. Modified, 1944-5, producing present composition. Sold, 1949. Resold, 1975. Set in landscaped grounds including terraces centred on flights of lichen-spotted steps.

• Bloomfield, gate lodge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, designed 1837, on a square plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet with clay ridge tiles, quatrefoil-perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gables with decorative timber bargeboards to gablet, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves on consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and monolithic surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with timber mullions, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing four-over-four (ground floor) or one-over-one (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Bloomfield.

• Bloomfield, gates/railings/walls, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, designed 1837, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of granite ashlar piers on granite ashlar chamfered plinths having battlemented capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Bloomfield.

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 Bloomfield, 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, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2883 (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 Bloomfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Bloomfield · Tom na Gráinneoige

Area

639,903 m² (63.99 ha, 158.12 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,897 people lived in 4,009 households in the Enniscorthy Rural electoral division. 56% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Jamestown, Knockmarshal, Lucas's Park, Templescoby, Tomduff, Tomnalossett

Placenames

Bloomfield 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.