Brusk

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brusk, from 10 m² to 227,675 m² (22.77 ha, 56.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Brusk 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.

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 255 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23154

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  for alterations to house design. Gross floor space 190sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18631

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 Brusk.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as a small hachured enclosure (int. diam. c. 8m) on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map and on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). No trace of it survives. It was located on a hillock that has been quarried out to a depth of c. 10m. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 November 2014

• GA096-016001 Moated site
  Description

  In low-lying marshy pastureland. This subrectangular moated site (36m NW-SE; 34.5m NE-SW), in fair condition, is defined by two overgrown banks and an intervening fosse. A NW-SE flowing stream runs through the fosse on the NE side. The interior is level but at N a slightly raised area (21m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW) is delimited by two stretches of a two low earthen bank. Two possible fulachta fia (GA096-016002- and GA096-017----) lie c. 40m to the NE and c. 95m to the SE respectively. (Cody 1989, 322-4, no. 142) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019

• GA096-016002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland. A low grassed-over crescentic mound of earth (8m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.6m) with a central hollow (2m E-W; c. 1.5m N-S) opening to W may be the remains of a possible fulacht fia. No burnt stone was evident so it may possibly be a pile of upcast associated with the digging of nearby drainage ditches; one drain cuts across the N end of it. There is a moated site c. 45m to the SW and another possible fulacht fia c. 135m to the SSE. (Cody 1989, 157, no. 12) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 November 2019

• GA096-017 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy low-lying pastureland. Recorded by Cody (1989, 157, no. 13) and described as a roughly circular slightly raised area (diam. c. 10m) with a scatter of burnt stone on its surface, suggesting that it might be a largely levelled fulacht fia. No visible surface trace survives. Another fulacht fia (GA096-016002-) lies c. 135m to the NNW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brusk.

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 Brusk.

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

Name

Brusk · An Bhroscach

Area

1,038,128 m² (103.81 ha, 256.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltullagh electoral division: 827 people in 264 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnakelly South, Curragh Beg, Curragh More, Esker, Gloves South, Greyford, Kiltullagh North, Rathgorgin

Placenames

Brusk 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.