Brosna West

378 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brosna West, from 11 m² to 288,562 m² (28.86 ha, 71.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Brosna West 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.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to (A) to remove existing flood lights on site and (B) install new floodlight, diesel generator and all associated works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660807

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  for the construction of two number dwelling houses, construct site entrances, connection to public water, sewer line and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Kerry County Council, 2660662

• 7 Jul 2025N/a

  (1) construct a dwelling house (2) install a waste water treatment system (3)all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560580

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING PORCH TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING A NEW GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF NEW TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONT WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25168

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain (A) a porch style extension onto the side of the existing Club House (Eastern side) and (B) elevational changes compared to planning granted (21/118) as well as all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460964

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  planning permission to convert existing vacant premises ( old funeral parlour ) to residential unit with fenestration changes to existing facade to include closing up corner door on to streetscape on ground floor , reduce height of windows on first floor , all with associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460946

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT AN AMENITY AREA TO INCLUDE CAR PARKING, A COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND, MULTI-USE GAMES AREA, OUTDOOR EXERCISE AREA, LANDSCAPED WALKWAY AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24312

• 18 Jun 2024Conditional

  RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED STORAGE SHED AT REAR OF PROPERTY

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24255

• 20 May 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCT AN AMENITY AREA TO INCLUDE CAR PARKING, A COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND, MULTI-USE GAMES AREA, OUTDOOR EXERCISE AREA, LANDSCAPED WALKWAY AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24197

• 7 May 2024N/a

  To retain as constructed storage shed on rear of his property

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 24183

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  To retain an existing single storey dwelling as constructed, septic tank, percolation area. Planning Permission to decommission an existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360020

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  (A) DECOMMISSION AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (B) TO CONSTRUCT A NEW ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23236

• 4 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT TWO NUMBER 2 STOREY SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGSWTIH CONNECTIONS TO HTE SEWER, PUBLIC WATER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 22834

• 14 Jun 2022Conditional

  (A) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED AND (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC STORE/SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22614

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO NUMBER DWELLING HOUSES, CONSTRUCT SITE ENTRANCES, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER, SEWER LINE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22295

• 31 Jan 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCT TWO NUMBER DWELLING HOUSES, CONSTRUCT SITE ENTRANCES, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER, SEWER LINE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission · Kerry County Council, 2286

• 24 Jan 2022Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT STRUCTURE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) CONSTRUCT NEW ENTRANCE AND ENTRANCE WALLS AND INSTALL MECHANICAL AERATION SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2248

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  REPLACE A 25M MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE WITH A 30M LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, ENCLOSED BY SECURITY FENCING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211423

• 10 Nov 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING SERVED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, (B) ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211279

• 11 Feb 2021Conditional

  (A) MAKE ALTERATIONS TO BOTH THE INTERNAL FLOOR PLAN AS WELL AS THE EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS OF THE EXISTING CLUB HOUSE AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (B) ADD A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING CLUB HOUSE AS WELL AS ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21118

• 16 Mar 2020Conditional

  RETAIN A SIDE EXTENSION AND OPEN ENDED PORCH TO THE SIDE AND FRONT OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALSO A DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED AS CONSTRUCTED AS WELL AS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20259

• 24 Sept 2019Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ANOTHER PARTLY DEMOLISHED DWELLING AND SHEDS/OUTBUILDINGS, (B) CONSTRUCT TWO NO. TWO STOREY SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTIONS TO THE SEWER AND WATER AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT CREAMERY ROAD

  Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 19992

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF USE FROM A PUBLIC HOUSE TO A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING TO BECOME PART OF THE EXISTING HOUSE (B) DEMOLISH PART OF THE REAR FLAT ROOFED SECTION (TOILET BLOCK) AND (C) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE FRONT MAINLY REMOVAL OF SIGNS AND NEW DOOR WITH WINDOW OPES TO LINE UP WITH WINDOWS ON FIRST FLOOR (D) CHANGES TO THE REAR AND TWO NEW DOME LIGHTS ON EXISTING FLAT ROOF AT REAR AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19621

• 4 Feb 2019Refused

  (A) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, ALONG WITH ANOTHER PARTLY DEMOLISHED DWELLING AND SHED/OUTBUILDING, (B) TO CONSTRUCT FOUR NUMBER TWO STOREY SEMIDETACHED DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO THE SEWER, WATER AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1989

• 22 Jan 2019Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED (B) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1933

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• KE024-011 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.

• KE032-008001 Church
  Description

  King (1986) identified Brosna as the church of 'Kaiterbristelan' [Caher Breslayn] which was valued at 20 shillings per annum in the papal taxation of the diocese of Ardfert in 1302 (Cal. doc. Ire. Vol. 5, 298). In 1398 a papal letter was sent to ‘John Flemyng, perpetual vicar of Cachyrbresleayn, in the diocese of Ardfert. Reservation to him, who has received papal dispensation as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman to be promoted to all orders and hold a benefice even with cure’ (Cal. papal letters, 109). In 1402 a papal letter recorded the assignment to ‘William Macgildroma [Mackyldroma], Augustinian canon of Killagh (de Belloloco) [KE047-047001-] in the diocese of Ardfert, the rectory of Cathairbreslayn in that diocese, of lay fee, value not exceeding 10 marks, appropriated to the prior and convent of the said monastery. William desires to exchange and resign therefor his rectory of Kyllmaneayn [Kilmaniheen West KE024-001----] in the same diocese, dependent on the said monastery, nearer thereto, and more profitable than the yearly pension of the said rectory of Catha[i]rbreslayn. Upon obtaining the latter he is to reign Kyllmaneayn’’ (Cal. papal letters, 496). In 1841 the Ordnance Survey described the medieval church site as follows; 'The site of the old church is to be seen near the little hamlet of Brusna in the Townland of Brusna West, but no part of it remains. It appears that the patron saint of this Parish was the celebrated St. Moling Luachra as there is a holy well called after him in the vicinity of the church yard. He was a native of Sliabh Luachra in this neighbourhood'. Brosna church and graveyard (KE032-008002-) surveyed in 2007 and described by Buckley and Dunne (2007) as follows; 'Brosna West graveyard is located at the centre of Brosna village, immediately south of the square and southeast of the existing church, St Moling’s Roman Catholic Church. There are extensive views to the west, south and southeast of the graveyard while views to the north are restricted by existing buildings. The interior of the graveyard slopes gently from north to south. The existing church and graveyard are associated with St. Moling’s Well [KE032-009----] which is situated to the southeast. Large enclosure [KE032-008003-] which is evident on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps and which is most likely associated with one of the early churches at Brosna. The remains of the church does not survive above ground today. However, evidence of two other structures was recorded within the boundary wall. At the northwestern corner of the graveyard, behind the Walsh grave plot, the remains of an inwardly splayed window embrasure can be seen. It is partially obscured by another much smaller heart-shaped headstone which originally served the Walsh burial plot. The window embrasure measures 0.9m in width and survives in height to 0.45m. The window ope has been blocked up on the exterior. This building is evident on the 2nd edition OS map 1897 as partially extending into the northwestern corner of the graveyard from the adjoining field to the west. A gable wall survives within the boundary at the southwestern corner of the graveyard. The wall is partially overgrown with ivy and the existence of window opes could not be determined. The wall survives in height to 2m on the interior of the graveyard and to over 3m when viewed on the exterior. A batter is evident on the southern side of the gable wall. No building is indicated in this location on the 1st edition OS map 1842 or the subsequent editions'. See attached photographs, courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Laurence Dunne. Date of upload: 15 April 2022

• KE032-008002 Graveyard
  Description

  Brosna church (KE032-008001-) and graveyard surveyed in 2007 and described by Buckley and Dunne (2007) as follows; 'Brosna West graveyard is located at the centre of Brosna village, immediately south of the square and southeast of the existing church, St Moling’s Roman Catholic Church. There are extensive views to the west, south and southeast of the graveyard while views to the north are restricted by existing buildings. The interior of the graveyard slopes gently from north to south. The existing church and graveyard are associated with St. Moling’s Well [KE032-009----] which is situated to the southeast. Large enclosure [KE032-008003-] which is evident on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps and which is most likely associated with one of the early churches at Brosna. The remains of the church does not survive above ground today. However, evidence of two other structures was recorded within the boundary wall. The boundary walls of the graveyard reflect the circularity of the original boundary KE032-008:03 which is evident on the 1st edition OS map 1842. The graveyard is bounded by a sandstone and shale wall with irregular coping. The boundary wall is generally in good condition but several phases of repair are evident along the northwestern section which faces onto the Square. The southeastern and eastern sides of the wall display evidence of additional courses as the interior of the graveyard has been raised considerably over time. This is very obvious in the southern area where the height of the original wall can be identified through the presence of coping, on top of which several layers of stone have been laid. Access and egress to the graveyard is gained through two sandstone piers with forward pointed render. A modern cast iron gate is set between the piers while a modern turnstile gate is located to the immediate west of the entrance. While the majority of inscribed headstones are of a modern construct, the 18th and 19th centuries are also well represented in the graveyard. The earliest date was 1771 and recorded the death of Mai Lean. The inscription is in a very good sate of preservation. A single cross slab was recorded. A simple cross is engraved on a piece of worked sandstone. This was located in the northeastern area of the graveyard and may be related to the early phases of the Brosna Church and Graveyard. One architectural fragment was recorded. This was identified on the exterior of the southern boundary wall. It comprises of a punch dressed, rectangular shaped fragment of sandstone'. Folklore collected from Brosna School recorded the following details; 'In the Brosna graveyard there is a flagstone over Fr Shine's grave. At the bottom is a little cutting (diagram) in which water lodges. If people come here early in the morning and rub the water for 9 mornings it is a cure for eye sores and stys. Nellie ODonnell (aged 99 years) brought some of her children here and had their eyes cured' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 267; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4713225/4709234). See attached photographs, courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Laurence Dunne. Date of upload: 15 April 2022

• KE032-008003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Probable early medieval ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 160m) of the church of 'Kaiterbristelan' [Caher Breslayn] depicted as the boundary of Glebe land on 1st ed. OSi 6-inch map. This enclosure may have been the 'Caher' element of the church name listed in the 1302 papal taxation of the Diocese of Ardfert (Cal. doc. Ire.; King 1986). Enclosure described by O'Hare (2000) as follows; 'The outline of a large, roughly circular enclosure (diam. approx. 155m), comprising Glebe land, is clearly depicted on OSi first edition, lying immediately to the south of Brosna village.' See attached plan of enclosure, surveyed and drawn by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey and Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2019. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 15 April 2022

• KE032-008004 Hut site
  Description

  O'Hare (2000) describes a 'possible hut site (4.6m north-south; 5.9m east-west) [which] is visible incorporated into the external face of the external bank [of an ecclesiastical enclosure KE032-008003-] immediately south of west.' There is a circular feature indicated at the W edge of the ecclesiastical enclosure (KE032-008003-) on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 April 2022

• KE032-008005 Headstone
  Description

  The precise location of a 17th century headstone in Brosna graveyard (KE032-008002-) has not been identified. Folklore collected from Brosna School recorded the following details; 'Brosna graveyard is one of the oldest in the locality. People were brought here from outlying districts in Limerick and Cork. One gravestone is marked T.C.W.C cut in the stone and dated 1624' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 267; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4713225/4709234). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 April 2022

• KE032-009 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy Well dedicated to St Moling described in 1985 by the Castleisland Archaeological Survey as follows; 'A spring well still bubbles to the surface here accompanied by a statue to St Molaing. The well is presently enclosed by a plastic fence which is situated on top of a raised pathlike feature c. 2.2m wide. The water from the well is said to cure eye complaints. The well is situated outside of the possible church enclosure [KE032-008003-] to the south-east'. Holy well described by O'Hare (2000, 62-3) as; 'Tobermoling, or St Moling's Well, is situated a short distance to the south-east of a large, probable early church enclosure, the northern portion of which contains the present-day Brosna parish church. The presence of the well is recorded on both editions of the OS maps. The well is situated within a small enclosure, c. 8m in diameter, formed by a low earthen bank, on top of which stands a plastic garden fence. The bank is best preserved on the south-west, where it measures 2.2m in width and stands to a maximum height of 0.5m. A gateway on the north provides access and a pathway runs through the interior. A spring bubbles to the surface in the east portion of the enclosure, overflowing into an iron container. Opposite, immediately to the west, stands a statue identified by an inscription as St Moling, and bearing a date of 1977. The well is still maintained today. The OSNB (1841 Brosna 35) records that St Moling was not a native of this district but of Luachair, somewhere near Graigue, Co. Carlow. The author was informed that devotions took place at the well on Saturdays during the month of May. The water is believed locally to cure sore eyes. It is said never to boil and gold-coloured fish are reputed to have been seen in it, Ó Danachair (op. cit., 162) mentions that the water is said to have cured stiff limbs as well as eyes. He refers to the fish as a trout and records that a cure was certain if it was seen. He notes that three circuits of the well were made while the Rosary was recited during each circuit Small offerings of religious objects were deposited. Formerly little rush crosses were made and dropped into the well. He also records two legends concerning the origins of the well: St Moling caused the well to spring up for the baptism of a blind pagan chieftain and his following; the chieftain was then cured. This motif resembles that classified by Cross (1952, 29) as A941.5.1, where a "spring breaks forth where saint smites rock. The second legend records that the saint cured a girl who suffered from "fits with the water, which again he had brought to the surface. Angels were seen about the well. The author was informed by a local woman that five mounds surrounded the enclosure and a decade of the rosary was recited at each. Upon completion of the rosary, three rush crosses were fashioned and cast into the water. It was then the custom to drink from the well. The mounds referred to however, appear to no longer exist'. Folklore collected from Brosna School recorded the following tradition about St. Moling's Well; 'St Moiling's well is situated in the land of Timothy Lyons of Loughvalla on the south side of the village. The people of this district and surrounding districts have great faith in this well. Great crowds come there, every one with their different complaints, hoping to be cured. These round begin on the first Saturday of May and continue all through that month. This is how the rounds are made. The people kneel at the first mound and say Our Father, ten Hail Marys. They continue going around in that way until three rounds of the beads have been completed. When they have this done they go near the well, make a cross of rushes and throw it into the well. Long ago when the old people knew Irish they had a beautiful prayer to say when they went to the well. " Go mbeannuighthear dhuit, a thobair naomhtha, Mar a bheannuighid na naoimh is na h-aspoil dá chéile, Is cughat-sa a thána ag gearán mo sgéal leat, Is ag lorg mo leighis i gcúntas Dé ort." During Easter it is said that a fish is seen early in the morning in this well. It is believed that the first person that would see the fish in the morning would be cured from any disease or sore he was suffering from. A story is told of Denis Murphy of Caph. This man was paralysed for years. His people one morning brought him to this well, he saw the fish and immediately he was cured. St Moling's father was a Wexford chieftain. He married Neimhnet the daughter of our local chieftain who lived in the Moats. Where the present Church stands they had a little hut where this little boy got his first instruction in the truths of religion. Later on it is said that this man and his son removed up to Wexford and after that Moiling was made Bishop of Ferns' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Pages 314-5; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4713225/4709281). A second story collected from Brosna School recorded the following tradition; 'There is but one holy well in my district. It is called after St Moling, who was born near the side of it where his home was. During the month of May, visits are paid by the people of the surrounding districts. There are five humps around the well and on every one of these a decade of the Rosary is said. This is done three times. Then the people who are doing the rounds go to the well and drink some of the water and if they have any sores, they also run the water to them. They then make a cross of rushes and drop it into the well. If whatever request you asked is granted a fish will appear in the water. Mrs Ben gurney was one time praying at the well and she saw a fish in the water. Sometime after she had a son and called him Moling' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 486;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4713226/4709427/4816983?ChapterID=4713226). Folklore collected from Brosna School about the origins of the holy well and St Moling recorded that; 'The local saint is Saint Moling. He was born in Brosna and lived there with his parents in a little mud cabin a few fields from Brosna Church. When the cabin fell a well sprang up and it was called St. Moling's well. In this well there is supposed to be a cure for sores. People from Cork, Limerick and all parts of Munster pay rounds to it every Saturday in the month of May. A crippled man came to pay a round and as he was leaving the well he could walk without his crutches. His image is in the Brosna Church at the back of the Altar and was put there by the late Fr. Neligan. St Moling was Bishop of Ferns Co. Wexford' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 513; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4713226/4709454/4817039?ChapterID=4713226). Circular-shaped well enclosed by rectangular-shaped drystone structure in the centre of circular shaped area enclosed by low stone wall. Stone forming base of opening to holy well has a curved edge with possible bullaun (KE032-009001-) or shallow depression on upper surface at opening to well. This stone with the smooth curved edge may have been taken from an earlier building or church and reused as the base stone of the opening for the holy well. A large bullaun stone (KE032-009002-) is visible on the N side of the external face of the walled structure enclosing the holy well. According to the sign at the holy well the site was 'restored' in 1998 by the Brosna Heritage Group under the guidance of local sculptor James Scanlon of Brosna. According to the sign the following ritual was carried out at the site; 'A decade of the Rosary is said at each of the five kneelers around the well, going three times around the kneelers. The taking sips of water from the well in their cupped hands'. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 June 2022

• KE032-009001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Circular-shaped well (KE032-009----) dedicated to St. Moling which is enclosed by rectangular-shaped drystone structure in the centre of circular shaped area enclosed by low stone wall. Stone forming base of opening to holy well has a curved edge with possible bullaun (KE032-009001-) or shallow depression on upper surface at opening to well. This stone with the smooth curved edge may have been taken from an earlier building or church and reused as the base stone of the opening for the holy well. A large bullaun stone (KE032-009002-) is visible on the N side of the external face of the walled structure enclosing the holy well. According to the sign at the holy well the site was 'restored' in 1998 by the Brosna Heritage Group under the guidance of local sculptor James Scanlon of Brosna. According to the sign the following ritual was carried out at the site; 'A decade of the Rosary is said at each of the five kneelers around the well, going three times around the kneelers. The taking sips of water from the well in their cupped hands'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 June 2022

• KE032-009002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Circular-shaped well (KE032-009----) dedicated to St. Moling which is enclosed by rectangular-shaped drystone structure in the centre of circular shaped area enclosed by low stone wall. Stone forming base of opening to holy well has a curved edge with possible bullaun (KE032-009001-) or shallow depression on upper surface at opening to well. This stone with the smooth curved edge may have been taken from an earlier building or church and reused as the base stone of the opening for the holy well. A large bullaun stone (KE032-009002-) is visible on the N side of the external face of the walled structure enclosing the holy well. According to the sign at the holy well the site was 'restored' in 1998 by the Brosna Heritage Group under the guidance of local sculptor James Scanlon of Brosna. According to the sign the following ritual was carried out at the site; 'A decade of the Rosary is said at each of the five kneelers around the well, going three times around the kneelers. The taking sips of water from the well in their cupped hands'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 June 2022

• KE032-021 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Two parts of a possible broken bullaun stone are visible on top of the gate pier of the gateway leading to Tober Moling (KE032-009----). The two pieces of stone when placed together form a shallow depression but they do not quite match up and may belong to two different features. One of the broken stones has a straight face externally which suggest that this was a medieval church stoup while the other rounded natural looking stone may have been a broken bullaun stone which was then matched to the broken stoup and placed on top of the stone pier of the gateway leading down to the holy well. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 June 2022

Architectural heritage

• Saint Carthage's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan six-bay double-height Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic church, begun 1868, designed by George Ashlin. Comprising four-bay double-height nave with two-bay double-height transepts to north and to south elevations, single-bay full-height chancel to west gable end, having single-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy projection to north-west corner, and having bellcote to east gable. Pitched artificial slate roofs with ashlar copings to gables. Squared sandstone rubble walls with limestone ashlar dressings. Trefoil-headed lancets with limestone surrounds, hood mouldings and sandstone relieving arches. Tripartite lancet east and west windows. Lozenge-shaped quatrefoils to transepts. Limestone door surround with stepped archivolt and hood moulding. Cruciform-plan interior with two-bay arcades to transepts having limestone ashlar columns. Exposed trusses and boarded ceiling. West gallery. Chancel substantially intact with carved marble altar and stone reredos. Simple arcaded altar rail and brass gates. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c. 1870-present.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 West.

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 Brosna West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Brosna West · Brosnach Thiar

Area

3,198,001 m² (319.8 ha, 790.24 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

Ahaun, Brosna East, Carrigeenwood, Derra, Glantaunluskaha, Knockognoe, Knoppoge

Placenames

Brosna West 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.