Brownbog

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownbog, from 1,628 m² to 217,488 m² (21.75 ha, 53.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Brownbog 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.

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  single storey side and rear extensions to an existing single storey dwelling, demolition of single storey sheds, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360313

• 26 Sept 2023N/a

  a single storey side extension to an existing single storey dwelling, a new front porch, demolition of single storey sheds and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360214

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW004-026001 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 16 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Area on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map is called Church Hill and it depicts a rectangular area as the site of the graveyard. Graveyard consists of an approximately circular area (diam. c. 37m) surrounded by traces of low, broad bank. Slight rise close to centre may be remains of former church, mentioned by O'Toole (JKAS 1932, 74-75) as 'foundations of the walls of the church may be felt with an iron rod, about a foot under the surface of the field. The building ran east and west and was apparently 40 feet long by 27 feet wide'.

• CW004-026002 Graveyard
  Description

  Area on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map is called Church Hill and it depicts a rectangular area (map dims. c. 34m N-S; c. 66m E-W) as the site of the graveyard. Graveyard consists of an approximately circular area (diam. c. 37m) surrounded by traces of low, broad bank. Slight rise close to centre may be remains of former church (CW004-026001-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brownbog.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Brownbog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Brownbog · An Mhóin Rua

Area

846,668 m² (84.67 ha, 209.22 acres)

Civil parish

Hacketstown, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Hacketstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hacketstown electoral division: 1,226 people in 436 households; 72% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Borkill More (Co. Wicklow), Drumguin, Hacketstown Lower, Kilconnaught, Kilmacart, Porchavodda, Portrushen Upper

Placenames

Brownbog 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.