Brannockstown

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brannockstown, from 193 m² to 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Brannockstown 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 May 2023Conditional

  10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 246 hectares in the townlands of Brannockstown, Brownstown, Carnalway, Coghlanstown West, Corbally, Delamain, Dunnstown, Gaganstown, Greenhills, Harristown, Hillsborough, Moorhill and Rochestown in County Kildare. The solar farm will consist of solar photovoltaic panels with a surface area of 1,130,000m2 on ground mounted frames, 40 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 4 no. single storey spare parts containers, 19 no. Ring Main Units, 9 no. weather stations underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L6063, L2032, L6071, R448, L6072, R412, L6074, L6047 and R413 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 5 no. stream and drain deck crossings, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via entrances from the R412, R413, L6044, L6047 and L6063. The solar farm will have a maximum export capacity of circa 210 megawatts. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. Part of the proposed development is situated within the demesne land of Harristown House which contains Protected Structures, but no works are proposed to these Protected Structures but no works are proposed to these Protected Structures. Revised by significant Further Information consisting of revised site layout plans to reduce panelled areas in Parcels 1 and 2, relocation of meteorological mast in Parcel 1 and all associated landscaping and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23567

• 28 Apr 2020N/a

  new agricultural entrance to access land and all associated site development works. The site is within the curtilage of a protected structure B29-15 Harristown House

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20430

• 20 Apr 2020N/a

  New Agricultural Entrance to access land and all associated site development works. The site is within the curtilage of a protected structure B29-15 Harristown House

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20404

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 Brannockstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD029-003 Church
  Description

  'In 1192, Inchierbrislane (Gilltown KD029-003----) and Brannockstown were granted with Yago (Gaganstown (KD029-013----) to St Patrick's Dublin (JKAS 1912-4, 336). Dedication to St Sylvester, companion of Palladius in Donard, may suggest early date founding (IHS 1941, - 39-40). Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD029-003001 Graveyard
  Description

  Contains a church (KD029-003----) and a medieval font (KD029-003002-). Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD029-003002 Font
  Description

  A rectangular granite font with central perforation and two cover depressions lies at W end of church (KD029-003----), probably of 13th/14th century date. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD029-063 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Visible on Bing aerial imagery in level tillage: a small circular area (diam. c. 7m) defined by the cropmark of a fosse. See attached image: KD029-063----_01 Snip of Apple Maps aerial imagery. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère. Date of upload: 1 August 2023

Architectural heritage

• Harristown House, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1880, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay to right having single-bay single-storey canted bay window to ground floor, canted entrance bay to corner formed by projection and single-bay single-storey return to rear to north-west having single-bay single-storey lower projecting bay to south-west. Now in private residential use. Gable-ended roofs on a T-shaped plan with slate (lean-to over entrance bay; gabled to lower projecting bay). Courses of scalloped slate. Decorative crested ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks with red brick dressings. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Rubble stone walls. Cut-granite quoins to corners. Red brick stringcourses. Cut-granite blind trefoil panels to gables. Square-headed openings (including canted bay window). Cut-granite sills, surrounds and lintels. Timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening behind open timber porch. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in grounds originally part of Harristown House estate adjacent to former avenue. Landscaped grounds to site. Gateway, c.1880, to south-east comprising four cut-granite profiled piers with raised armorial plaques, pyramidal capping with saw-tooth detailing, decorative cast-iron double gates, flanking pedestrian gates and rubble stone curved flanking walls with cut-granite stringcourse incorporating quatrefoil motifs and cut-granite coping having iron protective finials. Rubble stone boundary wall to remainder of site.

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 Brannockstown, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Brannockstown, Naas5 sales

Name

Brannockstown · Baile na mBreatnach

Area

1,013,715 m² (101.37 ha, 250.49 acres)

Civil parish

Brannockstown, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Carnalway, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,043 people lived in 710 households in the Carnalway electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnalway, Cramersvalley, Grangemore, Harristown, Moorhill, Mullaghboy, Rochestown, Sallymount Demesne

Placenames

Brannockstown 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.