Bridgeland
Bridgeland is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is 0.
- Area
- 26.1 ha
- 64 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 3,883 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bridgeland, from 681 m² to 134,886 m² (13.49 ha, 33.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Bridgeland 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
28 Jul 2026N/a
1) extend existing graveyard 2) erect a Columbarium (cremation) Wall and 3) for the upgrade of existing sewerage facilities with all associated site works at St. Peter’s & St. Paul’s Church, Bridgeland, Tinahely, Co Wicklow. (A protected structure: RPS No. 38-01, Bridgeland, St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church (also called Crossbridge) is located within the site boundary)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660658
30 Apr 2025N/a
1) extend existing graveyard and 2) erect a Columbarium (cremation) Wall with all associated site works. (A protected structure: RPS No. 38-01, Bridgeland, St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church (also called Crossbridge) is located within the site boundary)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25100
14 Jan 2025N/a
extend existing graveyard and erect a Columbarium (cremation) Wall with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 255
18 Dec 2024N/a
extend existing graveyard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24492
3 Oct 2023N/a
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23748
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 Bridgeland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bridgeland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bridgeland.
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 Bridgeland, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bridgeland.
- 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 Bridgeland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Bridgeland · 0
- Area
- 260,519 m² (26.05 ha, 64.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Tinahely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,634 people lived in 613 households in the Tinahely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamanoge, Cross, Farnees, Raheenteige
- Placenames
- Bridgeland 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.