# Briencan, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymore Eustace, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 880,455 m² (88.05 ha, 217.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymore Eustace, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballymore-eustace.md - Barony: Naas South - Electoral division: Ballymore Eustace, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,589 people lived in 582 households in the Ballymore Eustace electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25632 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80228 - Centre: latitude 53.145583, longitude -6.618446 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briencan, from 39 m² to 288,562 m² (28.86 ha, 71.31 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1053491: 288,562 m² (28.86 ha, 71.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053491.md - Parcel 1089205: 127,807 m² (12.78 ha, 31.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089205.md - Parcel 1025233: 127,068 m² (12.71 ha, 31.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025233.md - Parcel 4864558: 74,590 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864558.md - Parcel 1021133: 70,984 m² (7.1 ha, 17.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021133.md - Parcel 1080895: 61,297 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080895.md - Parcel 1029580: 57,637 m² (5.76 ha, 14.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029580.md - Parcel 1024231: 8,391 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024231.md - Parcel 1022598: 5,602 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022598.md - Parcel 5153431: 5,126 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5153431.md - Parcel 4864537: 3,913 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864537.md - Parcel 1032709: 3,240 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032709.md - Parcel 1055590: 3,196 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055590.md - Parcel 1060427: 2,759 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1060427.md - Parcel 4864554: 2,721 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864554.md - Parcel 1078764: 2,603 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078764.md - Parcel 1057829: 2,347 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057829.md - Parcel 1023135: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023135.md - Parcel 1016349: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016349.md - Parcel 4864570: 2,189 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864570.md - Parcel 1029156: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029156.md - Parcel 1032425: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032425.md - Parcel 1059866: 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059866.md - Parcel 1026920: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026920.md - Parcel 1033637: 1,510 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1033637.md - Parcel 1079657: 1,344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079657.md - Parcel 1066180: 1,330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066180.md - Parcel 1087615: 1,306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1087615.md - Parcel 1059249: 1,302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059249.md - Parcel 1021407: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021407.md - Parcel 1046172: 1,264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046172.md - Parcel 2442857: 1,205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442857.md - Parcel 1058643: 1,192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058643.md - Parcel 1045488: 1,140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045488.md - Parcel 1057169: 1,130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057169.md - Parcel 1026106: 1,106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026106.md - Parcel 1070887: 837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070887.md - Parcel 1032198: 832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032198.md - Parcel 5154719: 378 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5154719.md - Parcel 1031737: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031737.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Briencan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 4 Feb 2026, Kildare County Council 2660096: Conditional. Permission. 1. Proposed single storey garden room (52m²) to lower front garden, including all associated landscaping and drainage works, 2. Retention of alterations to dwelling including single storey extensions at rear, side and front totalling 10m², changes to fenestration at side front and rear, relocated front door, 4no. rooflights to front roof and 2no. apex rooflights to rear roof. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660096/0 - 30 Jan 2026, Kildare County Council 2660086: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 1. Proposed single storey garden room (52m²) to lower front garden, including all associated landscaping and drainage works, 2. Retention of alterations to dwelling including single storey extensions at rear, side and front totalling 10m², changes to fenestration at side front and rear, relocated front door, 4no. rooflights to front roof and 2no. apex rooflights to rear roof,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660086/0 - 15 Jul 2025, Kildare County Council 25126: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, minor internal and external elevational alterations, replacement of all windows and external doors, alterations to the existing entrance driveway and entrance piers, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and installation of an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter all to the existing semi-detached single storey dwelling. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: An amendment to the red line boundary to accommodate the installation of the proposed bubble mirror, details of the proposed bubble mirror, permissions granted by the owner of the land for the installation and maintenance of the proposed bubble mirror, removal of the container in the rear garden, amendments to the site layout showing sufficient manoeuvring space for a vehicle to turn around within the site, showing a wider recessed entrance positioned further away from the bend in the road, showing that the finishes to the bell mouth shaped entrance are to be hydropave, showing the location of the post and rail fencing, showing the fence to be located 2.4m from the edge of the road and with native species hedging to be planted behind the fencing. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/25126/0 - 1 Oct 2024, Kildare County Council 24312: N/a. Permission. for the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, minor internal and external elevational alterations, replacement of all windows and external doors, alterations to the existing driveway and entrance piers, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and installation of an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter all to the existing semi-detached single storey dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24312/0 - 19 Sept 2024, Kildare County Council 24299: N/a. Permission. for the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, minor internal and external elevational alterations, replacement of all windows and external doors, alterations to the existing entrance driveway and entrance piers, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and installation of an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter all to the existing semi-detached single storey dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24299/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Briencan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briencan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Wellfield, house, 1850–1890, Regional interest, registry number 11902407, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11902407. Detached five-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house, c.1870, retaining early fenestration with round-headed door opening to centre approached by flight of steps and pair of two-bay two-storey returns to rear to north-east. Extended, c.1920, comprising three-bay two-storey flat-roofed bowed projection to side elevation to south-east and single-bay two-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-east. Gable-ended roof with slate (hipped to original returns). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves. Flat-roof to bowed projection (behind balustrade) and to additional return. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls (roughcast to bowed projection). Unpainted. Rendered quoins to corners. Moulded stringcourse to eaves. Square-headed window openings (round-headed to ground floor to bowed projection). Stone sills (rendered sill course to first floor). Rendered architraves to front (south-west) elevation. 6/6 timber sash windows. 1/1 timber sash windows to rear elevation. Multi-pane fixed-pane windows to ground floor to bowed projection with fanlights. Timber casement windows to first floor. Round-headed door opening approached by flight of stone steps. Cut-granite panelled pilaster doorcase. Timber panelled door. Spoked fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front.Detached seven-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1870, to north-west. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed door openings. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.Detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1870, to west with three-bay two-storey gabled breakfront. Extensively renovated, c.1990. Gable-ended roof (gabled to breakfront). Replacement artificial slate, c.1990. Concrete ridge tiles. Vent to apex to centre. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings (round-headed window opening to centre first floor to breakfront). Stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door openings. Replacement timber doors, c.1990.Gateway, c.1870, to south comprising four granite ashlar piers with cast-iron gates and pedestrian gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Briencan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Briencan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/briencan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/briencan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/briencan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Briencan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymore Eustace East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballymore-eustace-east.md - Ballymore Eustace West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballymore-eustace-west.md - Barretstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barretstown.md - Brumlin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brumlin.md - Coghlanstown East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coghlanstown-east.md - Donode Little: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donode-little.md - Greenhall Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/greenhall-lower.md - Lugadowden: https://everytownland.com/kildare/lugadowden.md - Tinnycross: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tinnycross.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/briencan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/briencan