Brackloon

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackloon, from 10 m² to 227,889 m² (22.79 ha, 56.31 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 Brackloon 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.

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  for renovation of an existing derelict dwelling, alterations of elevations and extensions to front & rear elevations, domestic garage, package tertiary wastewater treatment system with all associated site works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92.00 sqm (extension) & 30.00 (garage)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2461287

• 24 Jun 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area & all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360704

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system & percolation area & all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: house 235sqm, garage 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360605

• 1 Dec 2022Conditional

  for development consisting of the importation of inert soil & stone material for the site restoration of a former gravel pit (area of 3.9 hectares), at a maximum rate of 24,000 tonnes per annum (175,000 tonnes total) along with permission to construct a wheelwash, weighbridge & minor alterations to the existing site entrance for a period of ten years & all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221204

• 1 Sept 2020Conditional

  consequent to the grant of outline permission Ref. No. 19/1950 to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling house 221 sqm, Garage 60 sqm

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201230

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling House = 230 sqm. Garage = 60 sqm

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191950

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 Brackloon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brackloon.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single arch road bridge, built c.1860, over now disused railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Segmental arch with cut limestone voussoirs to arch ring. Squared and snecked limestone to spandrel panels. Squared and snecked rubble limestone parapet with coping chamfered to track side, squared and snecked rubble limestone flanking walls ending in square ashlar piers with chamfered pier caps to east and west. Set in rural location with post and wire fences to adjoining fields.

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 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 Brackloon.

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 Brackloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Brackloon · Breac-chluain

Area

1,505,891 m² (150.59 ha, 372.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballynapark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynapark electoral division: 1,101 people in 336 households; 95% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardskea Beg, Ballina, Ballynapark, Ballynastuckaun, Brockagh, Brooklodge Demesne, Gortbeg

Placenames

Brackloon 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.