Brisha

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brisha, from 46,025 m² (4.6 ha, 11.37 acres) to 1,774,328 m² (177.43 ha, 438.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Brisha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Brisha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412

Recorded monuments

• LA006-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in Coillte forestry in upland area. Possible enclosure not marked on any edition of OS 6-inch maps but visible on aerial photograph taken by the Irish air corps c. 1950 (ACAP, V 300, 776-7). No surface remains visible of monument in area marked on the OS map. A site inspection carried out in 20/07/2018 by Ed Lyne failed to locate the possible enclosure identified on the air corps aerial photograph. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: David Sweetman Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 29 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Brisha, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Brisha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Brisha · An Briseadh

Area

3,363,759 m² (336.38 ha, 831.2 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Brisha, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bockagh, Capard, Cones, Derrycon, Sconce Upper

Placenames

Brisha 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.