Brideswell

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Brideswell, from 694,658 m² (69.47 ha, 171.65 acres) to 694,658 m² (69.47 ha, 171.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Brideswell 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.

• 28 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191210

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 Brideswell.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-076 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  According to an inquisition of 1618 William Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) had land at Brideswell which he either rented from or had mortgaged to Phillip Devereux of Ballymagir (WX0652002-) (Jeffrey 1979, 69). According to the Civil Survey Phillip’s son, Nicholas Devereux, owned 80 acres and the castle at Brideswell in 1640 (Simington 1953, 156, 163). The site of the castle is not certainly known, but it may have been at the same location of Brideswell House, where there are two face corbels over an external round-headed doorway. (Kehoe 191984-5, 27) 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

• WX047-139 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (8) 17-19). There is an entrance gap on the curved SE side. The enclosure is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-138_1to _3) taken in 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013

• WX047-151 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-151_1 to _4) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brideswell.

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 Brideswell, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2919 (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 Brideswell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Brideswell · Tobar Bhríde

Area

694,544 m² (69.45 ha, 171.63 acres)

Civil parish

Mulrankin, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Bridgetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

963 people lived in 323 households in the Bridgetown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baldwinstown, Grascur Great, Heavenstown, Johnstown, Longridge, Moor, Pollmanagh Little, Rathronan, Rathyark

Placenames

Brideswell 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.