Brockra
Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish An Bhrocraigh
- Area
- 347.4 ha
- 859 acres
- Land parcels
- 116
- registered freehold, median 9,799 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brockra, from 44 m² to 220,758 m² (22.08 ha, 54.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brockra 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Sept 2025Conditional
demolish front and rear single storey extensions to, the refurbishment of, internal modifications to, and a two-storey extension to the rear of, the existing two-storey derelict dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560615
23 Sept 2025N/a
demolish front and rear single storey extensions to, the refurbishment of, internal modifications to, and a two-storey extension to the rear of, the existing two-storey derelict dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560608
24 Aug 2021Conditional
construct a single-storey domestic garage / storage shed and all associated siteworks to south of dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21591
16 Dec 2020Conditional
construct a dormer (and part single-storey) dwelling house, a single-storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a site entrance through the existing field entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20677
22 Jan 2020Conditional
construct new extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling, change fenestration to existing and alter site boundary
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2030
21 Jan 2020N/a
construct new extensions to front and rear of existing dwelling, change fenestration to existing and alter site boundary
Permission · Laois County Council, 2028
16 Jan 2020N/a
extend existing dwelling and changes to fenestration of same
Permission · Laois County Council, 2018
2 Aug 2018Conditional
Construct a two-storey dwelling house, garage,stables , site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18471
6 Jun 2018Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, on site waste-water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well and new site entrance and all associated works. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies this application
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18343
8 Dec 2017Conditional
construct new dwelling house and waste-water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well and domestic garage and new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17665
7 Dec 2017N/a
construct new dwelling house and waste-water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well and new site entrance
Permission · Laois County Council, 17660
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brockra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brockra.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2027 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brockra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Brockra · An Bhrocraigh
- Area
- 3,474,328 m² (347.43 ha, 858.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Ballyfin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyfin electoral division: 711 people in 225 households; 94% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycormick, Ballyfin Demesne, Ballylusk, Cappanacleare, Cavansheath, Iry, Knocks, Ringstown
- Placenames
- Brockra 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.