# Brisha, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish An Briseadh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,363,759 m² (336.38 ha, 831.2 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 237,051 m² (23.71 ha, 58.58 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md
- Barony: Upperwoods
- 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/28335
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100226
- Centre: latitude 53.072578, longitude -7.50295 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 3934805: 1,774,328 m² (177.43 ha, 438.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3934805.md
- Parcel 264249: 897,195 m² (89.72 ha, 221.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264249.md
- Parcel 256880: 267,194 m² (26.72 ha, 66.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256880.md
- Parcel 247890: 206,907 m² (20.69 ha, 51.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247890.md
- Parcel 238580: 171,551 m² (17.16 ha, 42.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238580.md
- Parcel 255332: 46,025 m² (4.6 ha, 11.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255332.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA006-010: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA006-010----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Brisha, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/brisha.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/brisha.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/brisha.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Brisha 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)

- Bockagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/bockagh.md
- Capard: https://everytownland.com/laois/capard.md
- Cones: https://everytownland.com/laois/cones.md
- Derrycon: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrycon.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.

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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/brisha
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/brisha