Brockagh Lower

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brockagh Lower, from 62 m² to 123,668 m² (12.37 ha, 30.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Utilities (General)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Jul 2026N/a

  renovate and extend existing single storey dwelling house to include the construction of a single storey extension to the North elevation of the existing dwelling house. Provide wastewater pumping station with rising foul service main connecting to public sewer system. Improvements to existing entrance to site, including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660172

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  1. To demolish existing agricultural sheds and outbuildings 2. To construct a single storey type domestic dwelling. 3. To construct a domestic garage 4. To construct a new site entrance 5. To connect to existing public foul sewer mains together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560293

• 15 Oct 2025N/a

  1. To demolish existing agricultural sheds and outbuildings 2. To construct a single storey type domestic dwelling. 3. To construct a domestic garage 4. To construct a new site entrance 5. To connect to existing public foul sewer mains together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560253

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  extension of the existing cottage to the East and North sides, in addition to raising the height of the walls and roof of the original cottage for the provision of additional rooms upstairs.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460120

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brockagh Lower.

Recorded monuments

• LE013-005 Stone row
  Description

  Situated on level ground with the SW-NE Glenfarne river just to the NW. Two standing stones placed 3m apart form an E-W alignment (L 4.95m) (E stone: dims 0.85m x 0.25m; H 1.2m; W stone: dims 0.75m x 0.3m; H 2m). A third, displaced, slab (dims 0.8m x 0.3m; L 2.25m) lies between the two upright stones. 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. See the attached view from SE _1 Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Glenfarne Railway Station, station master's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former station master's house, built c.1870 as part of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, with four-bay goods shed attached to rear. Now in use a private dwelling. Pitched slate roofs with ashlar chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and crested ridge tiles to goods shed. Snecked limestone walls. Square-headed and segmental-headed window openings with rendered and rock-faced limestone surrounds, timber sash and uPVC windows and limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening set in glazed entrance porch. Site enclosed by rubble stone wall and tooled stone gate piers. Loading bay to west of goods shed with tooled stone surround. Bullseye window to goods shed.

• Glenfarne Railway Station, railway station, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former railway station, built c.1870 as part of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, with two-bay two-storey extension to west. Pitched slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative bargeboards and a finial. Snecked stone walls and tooled quoins. Segmental-headed window openings with tooled sandstone surrounds and sills and timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with tooled sandstone surround and timber door with iron door furniture. Stone former platform to north. Corrugated-iron former 'Customs and Excise' office on platform to east of former station.

• Glenfarne Railway Station, signal box, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached square-profiled two-storey former signal box, built c.1870 as part of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway. No longer in use. Pyramidal roof with bracketed eaves. Snecked limestone walls. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor and continuous glazing to first floor. Segmental-headed door opening to ground floor with tooled sandstone surround. Located to west of former station.

• Glenfarne Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay split-level former railway goods shed, built c.1870 as part of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and decorative bargeboards. Random coursed limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins. One original segmental-headed window opening to west facing side elevation, now filled in. Two large segmental-headed openings to the front and rear elevation are filled-in and have door openings inserted. Segmental-headed door opening to west facing side elevation, now filled-in.

• The Rainbow Ballroom, turkish baths, building misc, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ballroom, built in 1934, by John McGivern. Rendered stepped gabled front elevation with corrugated-iron hall behind with corrugated-iron walls and segmental arched corrugated-iron roof. Flat-roofed corrugated-iron bay to west.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Brockagh Lower.

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 Brockagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Brockagh Lower · An Bhreacach Íochtarach

Area

829,925 m² (82.99 ha, 205.08 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Cloonclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonclare electoral division: 153 people in 67 households; 72% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Brockagh Upper, Cleggan, Cornaman, Correvan (Co. Cavan), Druminshin, Killycloghan, Laghty, Meenkeeragh

Placenames

Brockagh Lower 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.