# Briscula, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish An Briosclach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 289,072 m² (28.91 ha, 71.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,838 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: Brisha, the unit of the census - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28333 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100225 - Centre: latitude 53.040792, longitude -7.469379 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briscula, from 252 m² to 88,369 m² (8.84 ha, 21.84 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 261439: 88,369 m² (8.84 ha, 21.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261439.md - Parcel 229346: 83,303 m² (8.33 ha, 20.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229346.md - Parcel 262923: 47,597 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262923.md - Parcel 5395295: 47,353 m² (4.74 ha, 11.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5395295.md - Parcel 241989: 9,194 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241989.md - Parcel 236668: 4,838 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236668.md - Parcel 5832416: 4,123 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5832416.md - Parcel 5832431: 1,571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5832431.md - Parcel 261285: 1,358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261285.md - Parcel 260551: 1,100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/260551.md - Parcel 262283: 252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/262283.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Briscula 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 Oct 2024, Laois County Council 2460624: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460624/0 - 16 Oct 2018, Laois County Council 18626: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area, new bored well & new site entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18626/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briscula. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Briscula. ## 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 Briscula, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2001, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2001.zip (ZIP). - 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/laois/briscula.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/briscula.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/briscula.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Briscula with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycormick: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycormick.md - Ballyfin Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyfin-upper.md - Cavansheath: https://everytownland.com/laois/cavansheath.md - Sconce Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/sconce-lower.md - Sconce Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/sconce-upper.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/laois/briscula - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/briscula