Brackley
Townland in the civil parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan; in Irish An Bhreaclaigh
- Area
- 249.2 ha
- 616 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 28,194 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackley, from 180 m² to 300,812 m² (30.08 ha, 74.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brackley 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
1 Dec 2023Conditional
To construct a wall enclosure around existing agricultural open yard, provide concrete floor to complete yard area, connect to existing underground agricultural storage tank including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360292
27 Jan 2021Conditional
(1) for the construction of a two storey dwelling & detached domestic garage, (2) to stabilise existing stone ruin & incorporate into landscape design as a raised deck area, (3) to form new site entrance, (4) to install wastewater treatment system & percolation area, (5) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2119
29 May 2018Conditional
to construct a fully serviced two storey dwelling with sunlounge to side and attached domestic garage to rear, sewage treatment unit, percolation area, entrance walls & piers, together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18227
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Rushen Bog NHA 000009
Recorded monuments
- CV009-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Site is said to have comprised a raised circular area enclosed by two massive earthen banks with an intervening fosse (local information). Situated in mountainous land, adjacent to a stream. The site lies within a dense modern plantation of coniferous trees. Not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV009-006 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Brackley House, house, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1923, with pair of single-storey gable-fronted projections flanking entrance, recent single-storey extension to the rear. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and pair of symmetrically arranged brick chimneystakcs, overhanging eaves and barges with timber sheeted eaves soffit on timber scroll brackets, replacement rainwater goods, small-profile rainwater goods to gabled front wings. Roughcast rendered walls, with smooth render quoins, bevelled stone plinth, stucco barge profile to wing with dentils below. Patent reveals to windows with concrete sills. uPVC windows and doors to front elevation and rear extension. One-over-one timber sashes with side margin panes to rear elevation. Area to rear enclosed by rubble-stone walls with timber glasshouse to west side and stone steps leading to adjoining yard to north. Yard bounded by two-storey four-bay outbuilding of c.1850 with three segmental-arched doorways, and flanking outbuildings, possibly earlier, each having one segmental arched opening. Pitched slate roofs (being recovered at time of survey), rendered rubble stone walls with brick forming openings. Remains of two-over-two timber windows and timber sheeted doors. Squared rubble piers and forged double gates to north-east of yard.
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
- About 1 in 10 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackley.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brackley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Brackley · An Bhreaclaigh
- Area
- 2,492,366 m² (249.24 ha, 615.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeport, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhaw
- Electoral division
- Bawnboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bawnboy electoral division: 625 people in 229 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrick East, Derrymony, Gortnavreeghan, Killyneary, Mullaghlea, Mullanacre Upper, Prospect
- Placenames
- Brackley 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.