Brosna East
Townland in the civil parish of Brosna, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Brosnach Thoir
- Area
- 269.6 ha
- 666 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 3,913 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brosna East, from 15 m² to 310,236 m² (31.02 ha, 76.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Brosna East 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
11 Sept 2025Conditional
To construct (i) milking parlour building with dairy, storage, first floor storage, plant room, slatted tank, flow channel, Meal bin (ii) Loose area (iii) cubicle area with slatted tanks and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560819
7 May 2025Conditional
for Planning Permission to construct an underground cattle effluent storage tank as well as all associated works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560377
10 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO WEST SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF A DINGING ROOM AND LAUNDRY ROOM ALL AT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21250
7 Dec 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER. THIS SITE HAS PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF 17/131
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181198
17 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING, WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, ENTRANCE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17131
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE024-012 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE024-013 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Mountcollins Bridge, bridge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Double-span humpback road bridge, built c. 1870, spanning the River Feale. Having elliptical-headed arches with rusticated limestone voussoirs and rendered soffits. Springing from rusticated limestone piers with bowed cutwaters and domed tooled limestone capping, having concrete reinforcement to the bases. Dressed rubble stone spandrels and splayed rubble stone parapet walls with rendered coping. Built using natural bed rock as foundation.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Brosna East.
- 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 Brosna East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Brosna East · Brosnach Thoir
- Area
- 2,696,339 m² (269.63 ha, 666.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brosna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Brosna, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Brosna electoral division: 734 people in 305 households; 82% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres (Co. Limerick), Ahaun, Brosna West, Derra, Knockcoolkeare (Co. Limerick), Mountcollins (Co. Limerick)
- Placenames
- Brosna East 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.