Breaghna
Breaghna is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Bréachnach.
- Area
- 135.4 ha
- 335 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,315 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breaghna, from 514 m² to 254,539 m² (25.45 ha, 62.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Breaghna 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
30 May 2025Incompleted application
Permission for 1) the demolition of 3 number outhouses, 2) the change of use of existing attached garage to habitable use, 3) construction of conservatory to the front of the existing dwelling house, 4) construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house at ground and first floor level which also includes an attached domestic garage, 5) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5047
30 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission for 1) the demolition of 3 number outhouses, 2) the change of use of the existing attached garage to habitable use, 3) construction of a conservatory to the front of the existing dwelling house, 4) construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house at ground and first floor level which also includes an attached domestic garage, 5) associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4814
27 Jan 2025Incompleted application
Permission for 1) the demolition of 3 number outhouses, 2) the change of use of the existing attached garage to habitable use, 3) construction of conservatory to front of dwelling house, 4) construction of extension to dwelling house at ground and first floor level which also includes an attached domestic garage, 5) associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4078
10 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Permission for (1) Demolition of 3 outhouses (2) Change of use of existing attached garage to habitable dwelling (3) First storey extension to existing garage (4) Extension to rear of existing garage (5) Construction of conservatory to front of house (6) Associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6350
23 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6613
23 Aug 2021Incompleted application
The demolition of current garage and construction of new garage to the rear of the house also the construction of a sunroom to front of the house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6316
20 Aug 2021Conditional
To construct dwellinghouse and associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6305
9 Dec 2015Conditional
Construction of extensions and modifications to an existing dwellinghouse, installation of a septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6782
13 Jun 2012Unconditional
Dwellinghouse, extension of duration to permission granted under planning reg 07/4487
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5296
26 Mar 2010Conditional
Construction of 2 no. farm buildings: building 1 to comprise of 4 no. stables and tack room and building 2 to comprise of cubicle house, slatted tank, feeding passage, calving pens, calf pens and dry-feed store and construction of soiled water tank, new acccess pasage, dungstead and silage bale slab and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4687
26 Feb 2010Incompleted application
Construction of 2 no. farm buildings - building no. 1 to comprise of 4 no. stables and tack room and building no. 2 to comprise of cubicle house, slatted tank, feeding passage, calving pens, calf pens and dry-feed store and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4431
10 Mar 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 09/4733
22 Dec 2008Conditional
Extensions and alterations to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10290
28 Mar 2008Conditional
Construction of detached building incorporating granny flat and garage ancillary to main dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5718
26 Jan 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4487
29 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/12793
21 Jun 2006Refused
4 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8269
28 Nov 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/8743
26 Oct 2005Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/7881
15 Jun 2005Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of detached garage with loft and relocation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4177
5 Nov 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8231
20 Aug 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6351
5 Jul 2004Refused
4 no. dwellinghouses and biological treatment units
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/5062
11 Jun 2004Incompleted application
4 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/4254
28 May 2004Conditional
Installation of treatment plant to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3792
The 25 most recent of 33 applications.
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 Breaghna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Breaghna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Breaghna.
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 Breaghna, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Breaghna.
- 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 Breaghna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Breaghna · Bréachnach
- Area
- 1,354,183 m² (135.42 ha, 334.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Boulteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghyohil More, Ardkitt East, Drombofinny, Farrannasheshery, Kilnameela, Kilrush
- Placenames
- Breaghna 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.