Brackary Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Breacaire Beag
- Area
- 122.6 ha
- 303 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 5,698 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackary Beg, from 42 m² to 109,130 m² (10.91 ha, 26.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Brackary Beg 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
24 Oct 2025Conditional
replacement of an Existing Septic Tank System with an Onsite Package Treatment Plant System and Tertiary Treatment Filter in accordance with the EPA Code of Practice 2021, and all ancillary works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560264
4 Mar 2022Conditional
construct an extension to the side and rear elevations of an existing dwelling house along with all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2230
18 Apr 2018Refused
(a) construction of a two storey type dwelling house; (b) upgrade of existing agricultural track to serve the proposed dwelling; (c) provision of effluent treatment system with percolation area and (d) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1864
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brackary Beg.
Recorded monuments
- LE007-012 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Located towards the bottom of a steep E-facing slope with rock outcrop of Crocknagapple Hill, and indicated as a subcircular feature only on the OS 25-inch map. This is a grass-covered oval area (int. dims 31m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by a stone spread (max. Wth 4.2m at S; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) NE-S-SW, which is reduced to an internal scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified, and an E-W farm track crosses the interior at N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE007-013 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a knoll towards the bottom of the steep E-facing slope of Crocknagaple Hill, with the headwaters of the N-S Owenbeg River c. 150m to the E. This is a grass- and spoil-covered D-shaped platform (dims 28m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1.5m) with the straight side at W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE007-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a drumlin in the valley of the N-S Owenbeg River, with a NE-SW section of the stream c. 50m to the SE. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 32.5m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.25m). There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified, but the enclosure had been surrounded by field banks, now removed. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brackary Beg.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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_1392 (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 Brackary Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Brackary Beg · Breacaire Beag
- Area
- 1,225,759 m² (122.58 ha, 302.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killasnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Manorhamilton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Manorhamilton electoral division: 2,064 people in 854 households; 58% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brackary More, Cartrongibbagh, Cornaneane, Curraghfore, Faughary, Kilroosk, Mullanyduffy
- Placenames
- Brackary Beg 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.