# Brierfield, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Driseachán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 380,348 m² (38.03 ha, 93.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 94,880 m² (9.49 ha, 23.45 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Moylough, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moylough.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Cooloo, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Cooloo electoral division: 580 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/1166032 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60660 - Centre: latitude 53.469413, longitude -8.632406 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brierfield, from 55,053 m² (5.51 ha, 13.6 acres) to 258,947 m² (25.89 ha, 63.99 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2012801: 258,947 m² (25.89 ha, 63.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012801.md - Parcel 2034948: 123,303 m² (12.33 ha, 30.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034948.md - Parcel 1939405: 66,458 m² (6.65 ha, 16.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939405.md - Parcel 2012802: 55,053 m² (5.51 ha, 13.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012802.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Brierfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 13 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 2021: Conditional. Permission. consisting of construction of new slatted shed to incorporate loose calving pens, creep area, crush race and passage way and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 245 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2021/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brierfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA045-002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA045-002----. On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 60m) but on 3rd ed. (1931) as a D-shaped enclosure (c. 75m by c. 55m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brierfield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, 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. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/brierfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/brierfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/brierfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brierfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Brierfield (Toole): https://everytownland.com/galway/brierfield-toole.md - Cooloo Mountain: https://everytownland.com/galway/cooloo-mountain.md - Mullaghmore North: https://everytownland.com/galway/mullaghmore-north.md - Mullaghmore South: https://everytownland.com/galway/mullaghmore-south.md - Mullaghmore West: https://everytownland.com/galway/mullaghmore-west.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/brierfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/brierfield