Kilbrickan

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbrickan, from 2,426 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 554,921 m² (55.49 ha, 137.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbrickan 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.

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of : A) Construction of agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy and soiled water tank. B) construction of agricultural building to include cubicles, straw bedding and underground slatted slurry tanks. C) Erection of a meal bin & water storage tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21110

• 12 Feb 2021N/a

  A) construct an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, livestock waiting yard, livestock handling facilities and an underground soiled water tank ; B) construct an agricultural building to include cubicles, straw bedding and underground slatted slurry tanks; C) erect a meal bin & water storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2181

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• LA017-011 Inscribed stone (present location)
  Description

  An inscribed stone (LA017-012003-) originally on the S wall of Kilbrickan Church (LA017-012001-) was moved to Kilbrickan House and used as a hearth-stone in a bedroom (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 176). No visible remains. 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA017-012001 Church
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying area on S bank of the River Nore. Reference to the church of St Brocan or Brogan (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 175-176). Remains of a rectangular church (L c. 19m, Wth c. 9.8m, wall T. c. 1.2m) with the base of the doorway (Wth c. 0.85m) at W end of S wall, and remains of a window at E end. The E gable is destroyed. An inscribed stone (LA017-012003-) on S wall was moved to Kilbrickan House (ibid.). Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 175) as a 'church has all the appearances of great antiquity. It is rectangular in shape and measures 55 and a half feet in length and 26 ft. in breadth, the walls being 3 ft. 9 in. thick and varying in height, at present from 7 ft. downwards. In the south side-wall on the inside, there are two recesses about 2 ft. wide and reaching to the ground, one beside the altar, the other about the middle of the wall; the upper parts of the recesses, probably containing windows, are broken away. There was no doorway in this wall. An aged tree, growing up in the centre of the west gable, probably occupies the place of the original entrance. The stones used in the building were very rough, but not very large, no cut stone. No interments have taken place about the church in the memory of anyone now living. There are no monuments now visible, all having sunk beneath the surface of the graveyard (LA017-012002-) long ago. It is said, however that one large monument (LA017-012003-), with an inscription was formerly fixed into the south wall of the church, on the inside and that it was removed thence to Kilbrickan House by a man named Roberts, who made use of it there as a hearth stone in his bed-room' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 176). 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA017-012002 Graveyard
  Description

  In a low lying area. No graveyard area is indicated on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. No grave-markers visible. Described by Carrigan ((Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 176) as a 'church (LA017-012001-) has all the appearances of great antiquity. It is rectangular in shape and measures 55 and a half feet in length and 26 ft. in breadth, the walls being 3 ft. 9 in. thick and varying in height, at present from 7 ft. downwards. In the south side-wall on the inside, there are two recesses about 2 ft. wide and reaching to the ground, one beside the altar, the other about the middle of the wall; the upper parts of the recesses, probably containing windows, are broken away. There was no doorway in this wall. An aged tree, growing up in the centre of the west gable, probably occupies the place of the original entrance. The stones used in the building were very rough, but not very large, no cut stone. No interments have taken place about the church in the memory of anyone now living. There are no monuments now visible, all having sunk beneath the surface of the graveyard long ago. It is said, however that one large monument (LA017-012003-), with an inscription was formerly fixed into the south wall of the church, on the inside and that it was removed thence to Kilbrickan House by a man named Roberts, who made use of it there as a hearth stone in his bed-room' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 176). 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA017-012003 Inscribed stone
  Description

  On the south wall of Kilbrickan church (LA017-012001-) there was an inscribed stone (LA017-011). It was moved to Kilbrickan House by Roberts and used as a hearth-stone(Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 176). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 175) as a 'church (LA017-012001-) has all the appearances of great antiquity. It is rectangular in shape and measures 55 and a half feet in length and 26 ft. in breadth, the walls being 3 ft. 9 in. thick and varying in height, at present from 7 ft. downwards. In the south side-wall on the inside, there are two recesses about 2 ft. wide and reaching to the ground, one beside the altar, the other about the middle of the wall; the upper parts of the recesses, probably containing windows, are broken away. There was no doorway in this wall. An aged tree, growing up in the centre of the west gable, probably occupies the place of the original entrance. The stones used in the building were very rough, but not very large, no cut stone. No interments have taken place about the church in the memory of anyone now living. There are no monuments now visible, all having sunk beneath the surface of the graveyard (LA017-012002-) long ago. It is said, however that one large monument, with an inscription was formerly fixed into the south wall of the church, on the inside and that it was removed thence to Kilbrickan House by a man named Roberts, who made use of it there as a hearth stone in his bed-room' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 176). 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Kilbricken House, house, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c. 1780. Extended, c. 1920, comprising two-storey range with lean-to glazed conservatory added. Stable complex to rear.

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

About 1 in 10 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

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

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.

No address of the register names Kilbrickan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilbrickan · Cill Bhriocáin

Area

667,413 m² (66.74 ha, 164.92 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Donore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donore electoral division: 486 people in 157 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletrench, Clonard or Cappaloughlin, Clonrud, Coole, Donore

Placenames

Kilbrickan 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.