# Bloomfield, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Tom na Gráinneoige. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 639,903 m² (63.99 ha, 158.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/st-johns-enniscorthy-ra.md - Barony: Bantry - Electoral division: Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52450 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240609 - Centre: latitude 52.492026, longitude -6.59507 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bloomfield, from 102 m² to 212,785 m² (21.28 ha, 52.58 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4890005: 212,785 m² (21.28 ha, 52.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4890005.md - Parcel 4889902: 187,154 m² (18.72 ha, 46.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4889902.md - Parcel 4889863: 73,607 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4889863.md - Parcel 410437: 44,152 m² (4.42 ha, 10.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410437.md - Parcel 5626531: 10,585 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5626531.md - Parcel 4422463: 2,595 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4422463.md - Parcel 2638140: 1,645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638140.md - Parcel 5626518: 1,174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5626518.md - Parcel 424750: 824 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/424750.md - Parcel 385978: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/385978.md - Parcel 390143: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/390143.md - Parcel 388819: 102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388819.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 10 Mar 2026, Wexford County Council 20260295: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a fully serviced single storey dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/130761 - 6 May 2025, Wexford County Council 20250519: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a fully serviced two-storey dwelling house with. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128947 - 18 Sept 2024, Wexford County Council 20241133: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the installation of new vehicular entrance. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127791 - 16 May 2024, Wexford County Council 20240546: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the erection of a domestic garage together with all ancillary. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127127 - 15 Feb 2024, Wexford County Council 20240153: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention and completion of (a) revised site boundary. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126685 - 30 Nov 2023, Wexford County Council 20231437: Refused. Retention. Permission for retention and completion of (a) Revised site boundary, access. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126357 - 13 Jan 2021, Wexford County Council 20210026: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house with a new onsite. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/118181 - 12 Mar 2020, Wexford County Council 20200303: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission of alterations and extensions to the existing fully serviced detached. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/114869 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bloomfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bloomfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bloomfield, country house, 1835–1845, Regional interest, registry number 15702548, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702548. 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, registry number 15702549, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702549. 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, registry number 15702550, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702550. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2883.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bloomfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bloomfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bloomfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bloomfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Jamestown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/jamestown-241356.md - Knockmarshal: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockmarshal.md - Lucas's Park: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lucass-park.md - Templescoby: https://everytownland.com/wexford/templescoby.md - Tomduff: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tomduff-242220.md - Tomnalossett: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tomnalossett.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bloomfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/bloomfield