Brackney

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackney, from 1,949 m² to 543,911 m² (54.39 ha, 134.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Brackney 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.

• 2 Feb 2023Conditional

  (a) Retention permission for existing garden shed; (b) Retention permission for a dormer window to the front elevation of existing dormer bungalow and (c) Permission for two new Velux roof windows to accommodate fire escape from first floor habitable rooms and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2384

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 Brackney.

Recorded monuments

• KD034-043 Moated site
  Description

  In level tillage, c. 60m E of a small S-flowing stream which forms part of the county boundary with County Laois. Visible on an aerial photograph (GB 90.CM.13) as the cropmarks of two narrow, widely spaced fosses enclosing a large rectangular area (est. max. c. 70m E-W; c. 60m N-S) (pers. comm. Dr G. Barrett). The attached image is copyright and reproduced courtesty of Dr Gillian Barrett. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 03 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Brackney, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackney.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Brackney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Brackney · Breacanach

Area

1,228,268 m² (122.83 ha, 303.51 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

554 people lived in 199 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackford, Blackford (Co. Laois), Castlemitchell North, Drumneen (Co. Laois), Kellyville (Co. Laois), Park (Co. Laois), Raheenadeeragh

Placenames

Brackney 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.