Brierfield (Burke)
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyknockmoy, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Driseachán (Burke)
- Area
- 118.9 ha
- 294 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 5,521 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brierfield (Burke), from 332 m² to 146,912 m² (14.69 ha, 36.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Brierfield (Burke) 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
8 Sept 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new building to be used as a sensory room ancillary to the existing school and all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561276
5 Aug 2025N/a
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/storage to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25201
19 Dec 2024Conditional
to construct a home office to the rear of the dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22.11 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461769
9 May 2024Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 207.39 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24125
26 Feb 2024Conditional
to construct new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 190.52 sqm (house) & 37.56 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460200
1 Jul 2022Refused
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180.42 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage/fuel shed)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22836
2 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.90 sqm (dwelling house) & 60 sqm (garage).
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260049
11 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 174.63 sqm, Garage/fuel shed: 53.94 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212098
15 Apr 2021Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling house (c. 198 sqm), domestic garage (c. 60 sqm), waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 sqm (House: 198 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21597
20 Aug 2020Conditional
of a dwelling house, domestic garage, fuel store and all other ancillary works on a site with revised site boundaries. Previous planning reference 97/1134 refers. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 190.1 sqm (House)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201159
22 Jun 2020Conditional
for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 232 sqm, Garage 65 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20778
22 Jun 2020Conditional
for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 224 sqm, Garage 50.76 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20779
14 Feb 2020Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House = 168.12 sqm, Garage/shed = 53.94 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20181
14 Feb 2020Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private Garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House = 182.40 sqm, Garage/store = 53.94 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20182
21 Dec 2018N/a
for a) the erection of a prefabricated temporary structure with connections to existing services to house a pre-school to rear yard of existing school building, b) retention of prefabricated temporary structure housing an ASD classroom and temporary storage shed to front and side of existing school building, c) retention of converted play shelter now housing classroom facilities to side of main school building, d) retention of alterations to previously approved parking & set down area, all on an enlarged site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 47sqm; Gross floor space of work to be retained: 92.30 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 181889
17 Jan 2017Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment unit, percolation area, private garage / fuel shed and all associated works (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 156sqm, Garage 53.94sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1722
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 Brierfield (Burke).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brierfield (Burke).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brierfield (Burke).
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 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 Brierfield (Burke).
- 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 Brierfield (Burke) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Brierfield (Burke) · An Driseachán (Burke)
- Area
- 1,188,958 m² (118.9 ha, 293.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Moyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moyne electoral division: 703 people in 239 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brierfield (Stevens), Brierfield North, Brierfield South, Lecarrow
- Placenames
- Brierfield (Burke) 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.